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Six-Word Caption Contest #13 (and Winner #12)

Monday, December 10th, 2012

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word Caption Contest continues as we seek your six words that describe the photo you see above. One concise clown will win a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. Leave your six-word caption in the comments area below by 5pm EST this Friday, Dec. 14. Each entry should be separate comment and [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #12 (and Winner #11)

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word Caption Contest continues as we seek your six words that describe the situation you see above. One lucky puppy will win a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. Leave your six-word caption in the comments area below by 5pm EST this Friday. Each entry should be separate comment and you can [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #11 (and winner #10)

Monday, November 26th, 2012

And you thought you had a wild night? SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word Caption Contest continues as we seek your six words that describe the situation you see here by 5pm EST on Friday. One punch-drunk six-word scribe will win a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. Leave your six-word caption in the comments area below. [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #10 (and winner #9)

Monday, November 19th, 2012

As SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest cruises into the holiday season, I can’t help but think of some of the messes I made a a boy around this time of year. When I was two, to name one of many incidents, I unplugged the refrigerator the night before Thanksgiving. But enough about me. Let’s [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #9 (and winner #8)

Monday, November 12th, 2012

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest revs up this week with a shiny, new photo. If you don’t know the drill, each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One savvy six-word scribe wins a gift certificate for [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #8 (and winner #7)

Monday, November 5th, 2012

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest swings into November this week with another illuminating photograph. Here’s how it works: each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One savvy six-word scribe wins a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #7 (and winner #6)

Monday, October 29th, 2012

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest gets in the holiday spirit this week with a photo fitting for All Hallow’s Eve. By now you may know the drill, but each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #6 (and Winner #5)

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest keeps rolling into—wait for it—its sixth week. It goes like this: Each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a six-word caption. One savvy six-word scribe wins a gift certificate for $50 [...]

Six-Word Caption Contest #5: Six Tips

Monday, October 15th, 2012

SMITH and Shutterfly’s Six-Word caption contest roars into Autumn. Each Monday morning we post a photo from Shutterfly on the Six-Word Memoir project and you have until Friday at 5pm EST to write a caption in exactly six words. One savvy six-word scribe will win a gift certificate for $50 for Shutterfly. Leave [...]

Classroom of the Week: New Tech Academy Shares Illustrated Sixes

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

SMITH Mag’s newest book project-Things Don’t Have to be Complicated: The Art of Six-Word Memoirs by Students of the World-is as awesomely collaborative as the other seven, with a sweet scholarly twist: the Six-Word Memoirs included will be solely student written and illustrated.
Social media savvy teacher at New Tech Academy in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ginger [...]

 
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