This year, The New School Creative Writing program was a featured presenter at the Woodstock Writers Festival. We challenged festival attendees to tweet us their best #6WordMemoir, and we got some great submissions! See below the winners, selected by program director Luis Jaramillo.

Winners:

Salad bar line was too long. #6wordmemoir@NewSchoolWrites@woodstockwritespic.twitter.com/KRjEipkIdc

— Lynn Johnston (@lynnjohnstonlit) April 9, 2016

 

@NewSchoolWrites everything I've done is behind me. #6wordmemoir #wwf2016

— Bar Scott (@BarScottweets) April 10, 2016

 

@NewSchoolWrites Family of seven children, no adults. #6wordmemoir #WWWF2016

— Jean Wolfersteig (@JeanWolfersteig) April 10, 2016

 

My evolution from heroin to heroine #6wordmemoir @NewSchoolWrites

— tracey helton (@traceyh415) April 9, 2016

 

@NewSchoolWrites Unexpected life changes; watch me rise! #6wordmemoir

— Shari Lifland (@Shariontheaisle) April 9, 2016

 

 

Each of the winners will receive a special prize, compliments of our food journal, The Inquisitive Eater: