We love hearing about how schools of every type have found Six-Word Memoirs to be a writing tool in the classroom. James Berman, Chef Instructor at Delcastle Technical High School, in Wilmington, Delaware, reports that “Six has been a large part of our class. The process takes a very busy environment and forces us to [...]

Across the world, teachers from grade school to grad school have found Six-Word Memoirs to be a great writing prompt for their students. But at the Augusta Elementary School in Arkansas, Jana Wilson, the literacy coach, took a slightly different approach to get everyone in her school writing. To break the ice, Jana first asked [...]

There’s not much better than seeing Six-Word Memoirs captivate a classroom. Rachel and I get emails every week, sometimes daily, from teachers across the world relaying how they used Six Words as a writing prompt, catalyst for self-expression, or way to break the ice with their students. We get invited into classrooms a lot, too, [...]

We love your words. We love it even more when you flesh out your words with photos and video. But every time we think we’ve seen it all, a new medium arrives to bring your six-word stories even more sharply to life. Recently, the inimitable Ken Tanabe, digital designer and professional lover, presented the six-word [...]

You’ve been working hard. I know. I see it every night when I check my Google Alerts for the latest results in a search for “six+word+memoirs.” Six-Word Memoirs in classroom projects and in To Write Love on Her Arm events and on personal blogs. Here are some of my favorite six picks from the past [...]

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 [...]

Defining your life in exactly six words can be the easiest thing in the world, or a seemingly impossible challenge. We’ve had bestselling memoirists take months to come up with a Six-Word Memoir they were happy with (seriously, one high-lit, household name sent in updates about his progress every couple months), while some of our [...]

I’m still a pretty young guy, so my memories of high school are still quite vivid (and still enjoyable to reminisce about). One of the highlights? Reading all of the nice things everyone had to say about how awesome I am. One thing I remember even more of though? The generic, “have a good summer” [...]

Nothing inspires us more around here than when Six-Word Memoirs find their way into a classroom. In Warminster, Pennsylvania, Ms. Sifer’s 9th grade English class recently joined the challenge. All 133 students wrote six-word stories that were later hung up in her classroom and published with visual pieces on the class’s own blog site. Sifer [...]

Dear SMITH:
I asked some of my teen patrons as AISD to try the six-word memoir. AISD (American International School/Dhaka) is one of the top international schools with a population of 700 students (Pre-K-12). Our vision is to prepare students to become stewards of a just and sustainable world.
- Judyth Lessee, MS/HS Librarian, AIS/Dhaka, Bangladesh
Here’s what [...]