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We hope you’ll have a good time experimenting with new ways to tell the stories that matter to you. Of course, this time around we’re asking you to shave 500 words, but as our 2021 Six-Word Memoir Challenge showed, less can definitely be more. In fact, in the places below where individual lesson plans expand on something we discuss, we’ve linked them so that you can easily go further. The good news is that nearly everything in that unit is applicable to and useful for this challenge. Many of you know that for three years we’ve run a Personal Narrative Contest that allowed students 600 words to tell a story and that we have created a whole unit for teaching with it. Our contest was inspired by Tiny Love Stories, part of the Style section’s Modern Love column, and we’ve used examples from that series throughout as mentor texts to illustrate various “writer's moves” for narrative in general, and 100-word stories in particular.

Can you tell a meaningful and interesting true story from your life in just 100 words? That’s the challenge we’ve posed to teenagers this fall with our 100-Word Personal Narrative Contest, and in this guide we’ll not only prove that you can, but we’ll walk you through steps that can help make your submission sing.

Another word for running out of something