Sum Up 2010 in Six Words Contest!

The year 2010 has been an interesting year: unemployment, multiple wars, the Tea Party, health care reform, Lady Gaga and even an “underwear bomber.” See if you can sum up 12 months in 6 words by entering our latest contest! Your submissions can be personal, political or pop-culture related, but please keep them pithy. Post your six-word entry in the survey below, and on December 29 we’ll announce the winners with Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser of Smith Magazine! The deadline for submissions is December 27 at 3 pm! Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser's most recent book is It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.

See all the submissions here!

The Winning Summaries

Went from self employed to unemployed.
Lost 50 pounds. Found myself underneath.
                    - both Sandi Hemmerlein

Got masters moved home permanent intern.
                    - Dana

Salinger waked. Haiti quaked. Oil caked.
                    - Coleen Goodson

Bedbugs, earthquakes, overeating, Snooki eclipsed Wikileaking.
                    - Janet

Green Day on Broadway? Oy vey!
                    - Leigh Giza

I could not stop checking Facebook!
                    - Janet Villas

Kanye Tweeted all the important stuff.
                    - Galia Abramson