NORA NADJARIAN: elimae, finally

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

elimae, finally

YAY! I am finally in the brilliant "elimae".

After two or three attempts and rejections, I had almost given up. Until the editor, Cooper Renner, finally said: "Let's do Gardening for the December issue..."

I knew it would be up some time today but had forgotten about it, until my Fictionaut friend, prolific and excellent writer Dave Erlewine sent me a message saying how much he liked it.

Here is my story, Gardening.

1 comment:

UnknownDecember 2, 2009 at 7:14 AM
nora, Gardening is intriguing and touching, i wouldn't dare to say more as a layman on such a gifted writer!
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Biography

Nora Nadjarian is an award-winning Cypriot poet and writer. She has represented Cyprus at literary events and festivals in Europe and elsewhere, including Frankfurt Book Fair and Dresdner Bardinale and within the framework of EU2016, in the poetry project ‘In European Poetry I want to live’ (Amsterdam).

Her work has been cited or published in the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Telegraph and has also won prizes and commendations in international competitions, including the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, the Féile Filíochta International Poetry Competition, the Binnacle International Ultra-Short Competition and the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. Her work deals with the themes of women, refugees, identity, exile, love and loss, as well as the political situation in Cyprus.

In Cyprus she is best known for her book of short stories “Ledra Street” (2006) but has had poetry and short fiction published internationally. Her work was included in A River of Stories, an anthology of tales and poems from across the Commonwealth, illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski, Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive Press), Being Human (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) and Capitals (Bloomsbury, 2017).Her latest publication is the collection of short stories Selfie (Roman Books, 2017) and her short plays “Mermaid” and “Catalina” were recently performed at the Old Red Lion theatre in London.

Her special interest lies in the teaching of creative writing. In recent years she has facilitated several creative writing workshops– in English, Greek and German – at schools, universities and prisons in Cyprus and Germany.