Six-Word Memoirs Twitter Festival Kicks Off This Week

By Dianna Dilworth 

Six-Word-Fest-2014-Ad--300x300On Wednesday June 4th, Smith Magazine will sponsor the summer edition of the Six-Word Twitter Festival. The theme for this event will be to share “The Best Advice in Six Words.” The event will kick off on live on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show on Wednesday.

Share your six-word advice at this link. The event will include contributions from: Maria Shriver, George Takei, Rob Delaney, Molly Ringwald, Rick Springfield, Piper Kerman, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Jenny Mollen, Jason Biggs and Judge Alex. In addition, Sesame Street, BabyCenter and WNYC are encouraging their audiences to share their six word bits of advice via Twitter.

Here’s more about the event: “From June 4-6, celebrities in film and TV, comedy, writing, music, parenting, lifestyle, and social justice will pose prompts to their combined 5 million Twitter followers challenging them to respond and ‘say it in six.’ The best responses as determined by celebrity judges will be retweeted and announced on SixWordMemoirs.com—as well as be included in a new book of Six-Word Advicepublishing in Fall 2015 from St. Martin’s Press.”