On January 24, Smith Magazine and the 92nd Street Y will celebrate the release of Smith‘s next Six-Word Memoir book, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. In anticipation of this, Smith and 92Y are soliciting your own Six-Word Memoir about your life in New York City. Writers Amy Sohn, (Prospect Park West) A.J. Jacobs, (The Guinea Pig Diaries) and Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, editors at Smith, will be a part of this unique event.

Submissions will be whittled down to the 18 best, and six people will have their Six-Word Memoir turned into a song by Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero; six people will get free admission to the event and be invited on stage to read his or her memoir; and six people will be picked, at random, to win a gift package of Harper books, including the newest Six-Word Memoir book, It All Changed in An Instant.

Commenters at Smith are already having at it, and they include: “Are the hot dogs, pretzels sanitary?” “Always say I’ll leave, but can’t!” and “Message to tourists: Please keep walking,” and our personal favorite, the one we consider breaking away from the pack: “Not on my subway line? Dealbreaker.”

So now it’s your turn. Our colleagues have just submitted a couple to help grease the wheels, and we love them. “Youth is overrated. So was I,” and “Walk quickly and climb double steps.”

What do our readers have to say?! Leave your Six-Word Memoir here in the comments, or over at Smithmag.net. We are eagerly awaiting your submission!

[The Big Apple in Six Words]

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