NORA NADJARIAN: Rejections...

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Rejections...

... galore.
I will not dwell on it, but I do know that they were quick ones, some sent on the spur of the moment. I haven't been able to concentrate lately. Maybe I've been partying too much. Last night I met a Rabbit-Man who assured me that reading "Watership Down" would change my life.
Anyone read it?

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Nik PerringFebruary 12, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Boo! for rejections. They're rubbish.

Watership Down - I have the book but haven't read it. I had a little look but it didn't particularly grab me. Film's good though...!

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Sam PenningtonFebruary 14, 2011 at 6:06 PM
I have read it, Nora, but I must have been missing some point or other as it certainly didn't change my life!!!

And I think rejections sap everything from concentration to courage, it takes time to shrug them off xx
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Mimi FoxmortonFebruary 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM
I seriously LOVE your blog! :)

I once got a rejection letter for a pirate anthology saying my piece was "too piratey"......

Watership Down? You will adore it! It's right up there with Animal Farm. Brilliant!

Keep writing....I look forward to following......

~Mimi
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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.