Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, the editors of the New York Times Best-Seller, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, are in the process of editing the forthcoming Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure... and, from thousands of submissions, they've chosen more than 11 Writopia memoirists as finalists in their search for young writers. Congratulations Six-Word Memoir Finalists:
Visala Alagappan, 13:
I always imagine clowns without makeup.
Lena Beckenstein, 15:
Always all-county, never all-state.
Noa Bendit-Shtull, 16:
I edit my profile, or visa-versa?
Louis Evans, 17:
Nada y pues nada, Hemingway says.
Lily Gellman, 14:
Thought I ought, so sought, wrought.
Chris Hamilton, 17:
Teen victim of shooting: lost leg.
Pearl Mutnick, 14:
Summer camp: Alone, with Sedaris anecdotes.
Dan Ross, 15:
Read the thesaurus on the toilet.
Rachel Sobelsohn, 13:
Pencil on paper, draft after draft
Ena Selmanovic, 13:
Turned thirteen and don't feel different.
Yael Wiesenfeld, 16:
But my life's only just begun.
Jessica Zalph, 14:
Wikipedia didn't know either. Oh well.
We had a blast developing these short, powerful pieces and are stoked to be considered for publication!!!
Thanks Rachel and Larry!
8 comments:
Great blog... great project. Keep developing those writing minds!
'Read the Thesaurus on the toilet' that's great! That's my favorite one, I thought I was the only one who did that, obviously not...LOL!
ha, some great thoughts in there.
I had heard of the first book, and had read and offered my six-line bios, too.
You all did great with yours!
Kudos on that and on the blog as a whole.
hehe, good thoughts in there. helped to clear my writer's block too
*goes back to writing*
http://butnowyouknowit.blogspot.com
ha ha! that's fantastic.
we did this in my creative writing class, and the teacher told me he made it up. ha. guess not.
Anyway, mine was: "The clothes never fit quite right."
Garrett -- nice six-word. :-) Your teacher may have never have heard of the book, etc... eh. You can still post on Rachel and Larry's site--did you check it out?
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