The Many Faces of 
UltraShort Memoir

~UltraShort Memoir  can be found in many places and various forms~

Like the last pages of many magazines that show what we like, who we are as society and what we are thinking.

One example is demonstrated on the back page of Vanity Fair magazine each month by way of Proust Questionnaire.  Marcel Proust would examine his own psyche by answering questions meant to reveal one’s innermost thoughts. More than a century later, the “Proust Questionnaire” format continues to be a popular method of interviewing and uncovering UltraShort Memoir.

UltraShort Memoir  shows up on the back of your designer cup of coffee. The world’s most famous coffee shop chain has a program called The Way I See It which is a collection of thoughts, opinions and expressions provided by notable figures appearing on Starbucks coffee cups.

The 1000 Journals Project is the globe trekking traveling journal project is full of UltraShort Memoir. In this project, 1000 journals were left to literally travel the world randomly landing in the hands of individuals to make journal entries and then pass on to the next unsuspecting author.

You’ll find UltraShort Memoir  in user-generated advertising such as The American Express  “My Life. My Card” campaign.  This advertising blog features a questionnaire where celebrities fill in answers about themselves, in their own handwriting. These AmEx card holders, and somewhat elusive stars tell us all about "My Life" in their own words.     

 

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Learn more about Smith Magazine’s 6-word “Nano” Memoir Projects by visiting: www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

Participate in the current traveling 1001 Journals Project.

Create Your Own UltraShort Memoir

**Participate in the Speaking in We™ 
UltraShort Memoir™ Project **

All About Me: The Story of Your Life

by Phillip Keel

A unique Question and Answer book, with questions about wishes and fears, memories and beliefs, secrets and dreams…revealing things you wanted to know about yourself but never thought—or dared—to ask.

All About Me Teenage Edition: The Story of

Your Life

by Philipp Keel

A version designed with the teenager in mind.

The Book of Myself: A Do-It-Yourself Autobiography

in 201 Questions

by David Marshall

This is a book written by a grandfather-grandson pair with questions--one per page, divided into early, middle, and late years, and then again into sections concerning family, friends, education, work and responsibilities, and the world to help organize and generate memories into family memoir.

How to Write Your Memoirs: Fun Prompts to Make

Writing and Reading Your Life Stories a Pleasure!

by Ina Hillebrandt

A spiral bound resource book filled with fun to use prompts and easy going tips for organizing your thoughts.

Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your

Life Through Writing and Storytelling

by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox.

As featured on the Bill Moyers PBS Special, this book is a strong resource for examining ourselves and our personal myths to uncover storylines in our own lives.

The Illustrated Discovery Journal: Creating

a Visual Autobiography of Your Authentic Self

by Sara Ban Breathnach.

This is a book designed to put you on the path of intuition and feeling as you explore and reverently reflect on your life.

The following books are filled with journaling prompts to get you on your way to using the List technique as a method for self-discovery and self expression.

List Your Self: Listmaking as the Way

to Self-Discovery

by IIene Seglove and Bob Velick

More List Your Self: Listmaking as the Way

to Personal Discovery

by Ilene Segalove and Paul Bob Velick

Risk Your Self: Listmaking the Ultimate

Path for Personal Change

by Ilene Segalove and Paul Bob Velick

List Your Self for Pregnancy: Listmaking as

the Way to Self-Discovery for the Mother-To-Be

by Ilene Segalove and Gareth Esersky

List Your Self for Parenting: Listmaking as the

Way to Celebrate and Enrich Parenting

by Ilene Segalove, Paul Bob Velick, Gareth Esersky

List Your Creative Self: Listmaking as the

Way to Unleash Your Creativity

by Ilene Segalove and Bob Velick

Today's Page - A Notebook Journal

by Ilene Segalove

A quick and easy way to check in with yourself, Today's Page includes 80 pages with writing prompts to help you sum up your day’s highlights, insights and celebrations, jot down your day, jog your memory, jump-start your journaling, collect your pages, and review the seasons of your life.

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FragLit Magazine

FragLit publishes a variety of fragmentary forms, including excerpts from journals, diaries and notebooks; vignettes; aphorisms; micro essays and notes; excerpts from letters; and various nontraditional short forms.

FragLit.com

Read also journals, diaries and notebook passages collected here

Impassioned.net

Not Quite What I was Planning: Six Word Memoirs

from Writers Famous and Obscure

edited by Smith Magazine, Harper Perennial

A Collection of “Nano Memoir”

A collection of almost 1,000 six-word memoirs, including additions from many celebrities including Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Deepak Chopra, Moby, and more.

Darkness & Light : Private Writing as Art

An Anthology of Contemporary Journals, Diaries, and Notebooks

edited by Olivia Dresher and Victor Muñoz

In Pieces  An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing

edited by Olivia Dresher