Your Moment: A Giveaway

In the summer of 1981, at the tail end of a year off between high school and college, I flew to Europe alone, with a backpack and a Eurail pass, determined to cure my absurd lack of worldliness in one grand voyage. Two weeks into the trip, I began having panic attacks that I mistook for drug flashbacks (having read, like the rest of my generation, Go Ask Alice), which I feared were a first step toward real insanity. I stuck it out a few more weeks, but eventually called my mother, weeping, from Rome, and went home early. And yet it was during that short time in Europe that I decided to become a writer.Now it’s your turn! Entries may take any shape and can consist of words, collage, illustration, comics, video or a mashup of them all. Most importantly, the entry should capture the essence of the moment-that single instant that had a profound effect on your life. So make like Hemingway (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”), tap into your inner Picasso, fire up your webcam, whatever. Here’s the deal:
- Email your entry to community (at) bookriot (dot) com by January 17, 2012, 11:59PM EST. Put “The Moment Giveaway” in the email subject line.
- We will pick our 3 favorites, and post them individually on Book Riot on Friday, January 20.
- Voting will be by Facebook “Likes.” The post with the most “Likes” on Friday, January 27, 11:59PM EST wins. As thanks, both runners up will receive a copy of The Moment, too.
That’s it.
Do it in 6 words if you can, but no more than 600. For images, submit JPEGs, max 1MB per entry. For video, keep it under 3 minutes on YouTube with embedding enabled. If you have a submission in another newfangled format, send an email to community (at) bookriot (dot) com, and we’ll make an official ruling.