Larry Smith

Earth Day approaches on April 22 and I wanted to share some of the Six Words for the Planet that have been coming in since we launched a new Six-Word section on SMITHmag.net (a collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency). And I also invite you to share your...

What makes a good Six-Word Memoir? After reading more than 500,000 and publishing five books of Six-Word Memoirs, the short answer is passion. We're passionate about how we define our lives, our love, our work-and, of course, our religious life (or lack thereof). With...

When my son was born five months ago, I was overcome by emotions and overwhelmed by the job in front of me. Like the thousands of people who've come to SMITH Magazine and SMITH Teens who have now written nearly half a million Six-Word...

There aren't many topics like moms to really light a fire under a conversation among a few friends, or even an entire community. No surprise that among the more than 400,000 Six-Word Memoirs submitted to SMITH Magazine's Six-Word Memoir project, some of the most lovely, intense, heartbreaking, and hilarious...

The oft-quoted Tolstoy line "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" seems to hold true in matters of the heart as well. No surprise then that some of the most moving Six-Word Memoirs among the more than 400,000 that have been shared...

I don't know of a better way to describe the more than 400,000 Six-Word Memoirs that readers have shared on at SMITH Magazine and SMITHteens than to call it a torrent of self-expression. The teens especially go nuts for the form--many have written thousands of six-worders. From...

Some years you just want to scrape off your tongue with your toothbrush. And 2010 feels like one of them. From the Tea Party and the shellacking to the BP Gulf disaster and Tiger Woods' texts, we made quite a mess of the past 12 months. But it wasn't all...

When we launch a new Six-Word Memoir project over at SMITH Magazine, the goal is usually to engage as many people as possible. The reason six words works so well as a prompt to define your life, hone your company's mission, or just make sense of your day...

Each day over at SMITH Magazine, the storytelling community I started in 2006, members unleash a frenzy of self-expression in the form of Six-Word Memoirs. More than 300,000+ Six-Word Memoirs have come in to SMITH Mag (and its younger, amazing cousin, SMITH Teens) since we launched...

To celebrate the release our next Six-Word Memoir book, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, SMITH Mag is having an event at the 92nd Street Y on Jan. 24 and holding a contest right now: What's your Six-Word Memoir about...

HuffPost readers are nothing if not the types who will willingly outsmart themselves. So you'll like this contest from Smith Magazine, creators of the Six-Word Memoir project, and Significant Objects, a weird, wonderful new project from Joshua Glenn and NYT Mag's Consumed columnist Rob Walker.

Here's how it works: 1)...

HuffPost people should like this new contest from six-word memoir creators Smith Magazine and Frontline/Digital Nation. In six words, tell us how the web and digital technology are changing how you think, work, live, or love. Whether you've done things unimaginable just a few years ago ("I have...

SMITH Mag's earthy friends over at TreeHugger have been devoting lots of virtual space lately to exploring our oceans and waterways in their month-long feature, Blue August. That got me thinking about a Six-Word Challenge about one of summer's treats and earth's increasingly rare resources: water. Whether...

It's been said by many, including the editors of SMITH magazine, that a six-word memoir can be a lot like an epitaph, the ultimate summation of one's life. We just launched a new six-word challenge: What's your six-word obituary for Michael Jackson? Leave your six words for MJ either...

Inauguration day: What's it all about in six words? Hope or impeachment? Ending war of helping the poor? In other words: what half-dozen choice words do you want to hear from Obama on January 20?

SMITH Magazine and The National Constitution Center have put out a challenge...

For nine months now, I've been publishing SMITH, a magazine about personal stories, personal obsessions and other "chicken's eye" views of the world. In that time, nothing has caused as much of a stir as our interview with Korey Rowe, a 23-year-old soldier from upstate Oneonta, New York,...

Real life and a disastrous war continue to imitate art in this near-future webcomic...

The year is 2011. Gas prices are sky high in America, President John McCain's approval ratings are falling and the Middle East is getting bloodier by the day. As writer Anthony Lappé explains in the beginning...

Would you be surprised if our misadventure in Iraq is still a quagmire in five years? Me neither. So what will it look like? How will the media cover it? Thatís half the fun, and lots of the horror, of Shooting War, SMITH Magazine's weekly webcomic set in Iraq,...

I'm the editor of SMITH: Everyone Has a Story, an online magazine about storytelling in its many shapes and forms. Our hottest read right now is the webcomic Shooting War, a near-future, media-obsessed story about a Brooklyn blogger who heads to still-war-torn Iraq after witnessing a terrorist attack on...