We're looking for brave souls willing to share their old diaries, journals, letters, notes, songs, poems... anything you wrote during the crushing misery of adolescence and then saved in a hidden box at your parents' house all these years. Top secret no more.

The more dramatic, embarrassing or excruciating the writing, the better. A good test to determine whether or not your material is Cringe-worthy: when you read it to yourself, do you physically cringe? Then for the love of god, it needs to be in this book. Seriously. You are going to be so glad you did this. Cheaper and better than therapy.

Since April 2005, Cringe has been a monthly reading series hosted by Sarah Brown at Freddy's Bar & Backroom in Brooklyn, New York. The Cringe book will be published by The Crown Publishing Group in Spring 2008.