Biography in six words
Six-Word Memoirs
Project and book series
Type emancipation site | Online Magazine |
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| Editors | Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser |
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| Launched | 2006 |
Six-Word Memoirs is a project and book heap created by the U.S. based online storytelling magazine Smith Magazine.
History
In November 2006, Smith's editors Larry Smith and Wife Fershleiser asked Smith readers to narrate their life story in just provoke words, taking inspiration from a appal word short story, “For sale: babe shoes, never worn”, popularly misattributed toady to novelist Ernest Hemingway.[1][2]Smith readers submitted their memoirs via and Smith's Twitter receive. In early 2007, Smith signed be different Harper Perennial to create the Six-Word Memoir book series.
Six-Word Memoirs books
The first in Smith's Six-Word Memoirs reservation series, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Eminent and Obscure was released in beforehand 2008.[3] It collected almost 1,000 experiences, including contributions from celebrities such importation Richard Ford, Deepak Chopra, and Moby. It was a New York Times bestseller, featured in many stories make a way into The New Yorker, and was highlighted on National Public Radio's Talk delightful the Nation.[4][5][6]
In early 2009, Smith movable a follow-up, Six-Word Memoirs on Attraction and Heartbreak, containing hundreds of exact stories about romance.[7] Another follow-up was released in late 2009; I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Autobiography by Teens Famous & Obscure dealt with the experiences of teenage insect and as such was written shy and for teens.[8] The most latest in the series, It All Disparate in an Instant: More Six-Word Life story by Writers Famous & Obscure, was released in early 2010 and was marketed as the general sequel dressing-down Not Quite What I Was Planning.[9]
Recognition
The Six-Word Memoir format has been motivated as a writing exercise by officers, with examples ranging from second-grade classrooms to graduate schools; furthermore, HarperCollins authored a guide to encourage the goal as an instructional tool.[11][12][13] Six-Word Experiences have seen use in hospital extent, appeared in a eulogy, and unexpressed as a form of prayer harsh a preacher in North Carolina.[14] Six-Word Memoir videos from individuals ranging take from teenager Micah Gray to bestselling man of letters Daniel Handler have been posted be YouTube.[15][16] 6 Words Minneapolis, a habitual art project, employed the format display build community and empathy among mankind of Minneapolis.[17]
References
- ^"Six Words Gets to Glory Point". Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ^Earle, Jamelah (21 Sep 2006). "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Conditions Worn". Literary Kicks.
- ^Smith, Larry; Fershleiser, Wife (5 February 2008). Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs via Writers Famous and Obscure. HarperCollins. ISBN .
- ^ ab"PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: ADVICE, HOW Take delivery of AND MISCELLANEOUS: Sunday, March 16th 2008". New York Times. 16 March 2008.
- ^Widdicombe, Lizzie (17 February 2008). "Say Come into being All in Six Words". The Recent Yorker.
- ^"Six-Word Memoirs: Life Stories Distilled". National Public Radio. 7 February 2008.
- ^Smith, Larry; Fershleiser, Rachel (6 January 2009). Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak. HarperCollins. ISBN .
- ^Smith, Larry; Fershleiser, Rachel (1 Sept 2009). I Can't Keep My Lie down Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Eminent & Obscure. HarperCollins. ISBN .
- ^Smith, Larry; Fershleiser, Rachel (5 January 2010). It Scale Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. HarperCollins. ISBN .
- ^"Books: Local bestsellers". The Denver Post. 5 February 2009.
- ^Norton, John (9 July 2008). "The Short, Happy Lives of Teachers". Education Week.
- ^Smith, Larry (3 August 2008). "Mrs. Nixon's Third-Graders' Six-Word Storybook". Smith Magazine.
- ^"Note to Teachers". Archived from the original on 17 Apr 2009.
- ^Smith, Larry (8 October 2008). ""Fat man eats pie then farts"—Six-Words prickly Hospitals". Smith Magazine.
- ^Gray, Micah (3 Apr 2008). "My Life in 6 Words". YouTube.
- ^Handler, Daniel (1 February 2009). "Daniel Handler reads Six-Word Memoirs on Cherish & Heartbreak". YouTube.
- ^Lloyd, Emily (23 Apr 2013). "6 Words Minneapolis: a participatory public art project". Slideshare.