Spring 2008 Contest Winner - Six-Word Memoir Contest

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"I’ve taken many writing workshops since the age of 20, and this was the best I ever participated in."

- Erin Dow
Public interest lawyer

"I hadn't written for ages and was really stuck when I tried to start anything. Add to that the external pressures of parenting and my job, and I was beginning to think I would never get around to writing anything at all. This course really focused me and energized me. I now have a story to work on and I feel like writing is finally part of my life again!"

- Siobhan Wilde
EFL teacher

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Spring 2008 Six-Word Memoir Contest Winner

For this contest, we asked you to write a memoir using only six words. Now we thank Rachel Fershleiser, co-editor of Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure for selecting the winners from among the 700 entries we received.

The winner is:
I’ll never know mom’s meatloaf recipe.
by Kathleen Ett of Brooklyn, NY

Runners-up:
Party of one, many tried crashing.
by Lorri McDole of Renton, WA

I was statue; life’s a pigeon.
by Jim Chappell of Louisville, KY

Saying “I do”...completely undid me.
by Nadine Scjiff of Los Angeles, CA

Reclaimed maiden name after every divorce.
by Victoria Martin of Lake City, MI

Breast cancer: zero. My future: won.
by Amy Bowker of Burbank, CA

Had kitties—not kiddies. God misunderstood.
by Sue Brooks of Ewing, NJ

Learn more about opportunities to be considered for publication in future Six-Word Memoir projects by visiting SmithMag.net.