Six-Word Resolutions are back. Tell us your plans, hopes, dreams, motivations, and mistakes you hope not to repeat in 2011 in just six words. We’ll give three of our favorite six-word scribes a T-shirt from our partner, Spreadshirt, so you can wear your resolutions proudly throughout the year (or at least until you break them). [...]

The Tea Party and the shellacking. Heathcare and the economy. The iPad and ebooks. The BP Gulf disaster and the Chilean miners. Tiger Woods and Lady Gaga. Quite a year. Can you sum it up in six words? That’s the challenge from SMITH and New York Public Radio’s WNYC. Submit your “six on 2010” on [...]

A fleeting thought about the number of one-word memoir titles atop the bestseller list became a simple SMITH reader challenge: What’s the one-word title of your memoir? As usual, the SMITH community rocked the creative clock, sharing more than 300 one-word memoir titles here on the blog, on our Facebook page, and via Twitter. Your [...]

Since we launched the Six-Word Memoir project on this site in late 2006 and began publishing a series of books, we’ve been consistently blown away by how others have adopted the form, from six-word prayers to six-words on amazing moms (with One.org), to six words on Internet security—and, really, everything under and over and around [...]

We asked you to submit Six-Word MOMoirs in tribute of Mother’s Day and the response was overwhelming! It didn’t take a Freud to analyze the importance of moms from the thousands of MOMoirs we received, but it did take a lot of tough decision making to choose our winners.
Our winners of Six-Word MOMoirs on being [...]

“Carrying heaviest loads with lightest hearts.”
—Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino
“She went hungry, they did not.”
Nora O’Connell, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at Women Thrive Worldwide
“It All Starts With Your Mother.”
—Jessica Alba, actress
The women above are among the forces and advocates behind a new collaboration between Bono’s ONE organization and SMITH. From [...]

The day we launched our first Six-Word Memoir book, Rachel and I appeared on Talk of the Nation, catapulting six words into the consciousness of people who would become some of our most passionate SMITH community members.
So we’re always excited when six words finds a way into the public radio world. Our [...]

On January 24, SMITH is having a very special event at the 92nd Street Y to celebrate the release our next Six-Word Memoir book, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.. We’ll talk about the brilliance of brief writing with A.J. Jacobs, Amy Sohn, and Ben Yagoda, and [...]

Rachel and I had a great time talking with Leonard Lopate and winners of SMITH and WNYC’s “Six-Word Resolutions” contest. Listen to a podcast of the show on WNYC.com. These eight inspired micro-resolutionists will receive a copy of our new book, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.. [...]

We have a new Six-Word Challenge and an especially cool prize. The challenge: your Six-Word Resolutions. Tell us your plans, hopes, dreams, motivations and mistakes you hope not to repeat in 2010 in just six words. The Prize: Six people will win an advance copy of our newest book, It All Changed in [...]