1 Sign Up for Our Free Publications Email First Name Select your interests: Social Work E News The New Social Worker Magazine Special Announcements for Social Work Submit About Us Advertise Su Let's Connect! Video Audio Book Club Social Work Month 2015 Creative Work Social Work Month Project 2016 Articles Extras Magazine Jobs Grad School Products Events Nonprofit Living With Cancer: Six-Word Stories Writing and Art Project Share the love! RSS Print Vocational Social Work: Every Client Deserves a Résumé and a Voice The Right Balance Poetry by Irene Monticelli Editor's Note: Please click through the slideshow above to see a closeup of some of the sixword stories. Kindled by Hemingway's famous six-word tale, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” the "six word story" has acted as a writer's prompt for years. My supervisor Jill Winter, LMSW, and I use this writing exercise in our "Living with Cancer" writing group that meets once a month to facilitate our members’ (both patients and caretakers) inner dialog, expression, and themed group conversation. Jill had conveyed a wish to do a project with the powerful stories that come out of this group. I have a degree in graphic design. I am an artist and photojournalist, as well. I took up the project because I felt that a display of six-word cancer stories was an amazing way to give a public voice to our group. I was given an empty case for my art installation space. Jill had been gathering stories before I started at my MSW internship, and I asked for additional current prose from the current groups we facilitated. They truly gave me so many powerful stories that it was hard for Jill and me to choose. I compiled the chosen and then used a 3 of 4 You and 505 others like this. Like