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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 19/10/2026

I talked to acclaimed writer Abby Geni about her new novel CHILDREN OF THE WOLF, Viking mythology, beekeeping & serial killers for Newcity magazine. This is a gripping & fascinating book, highly recommend it! More in our interview linked below 🐺 #BookRecommendation @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Cover of the book Children of the Wolf by Abby Geni, with the title of this Newcity magazine article, "Psychology of a Wolf"

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 10/08/2026

Chicago writers! Great free event with 'Pemi Aguda & @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social coming up this Friday 8/14 at @driehausmuseum.bsky.social as part of the annual StoryBoard Festival from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social 📚🖊📖 More details & free registration through StoryStudio.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 06/08/2026

My first essay for @realsimple.com is the most personal thing I've ever shared: "What It Feels Like to Have a 7-Inch Ovarian Tumor." Grateful for the platform to advocate for better #womenshealthcare 💛 With thanks to Dr. Jamie Bakkum-Gamez @mayoclinic.org for her insight. #nonfiction #womenshealth

Real Simple essay headline reading: What It Feels Like to Have a 7-Inch Ovarian--And Be Told Not to Worry About It." By Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch. There is a lead photo of a woman's midsection in a brown shirt, with her bare hands over her belly as though in pain.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 16/07/2026

Looking for a beach read? 🏖📖 My summer books feature for Newcity magazine includes new novels from @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social (Man Overboard!), @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social (It Came from Neverland), Rowan Beaird (Tenderness) & Dawn Turner (Majestic Hills). Link below! #BookRecommendations #newbooks

Newcity magazine title page reading "Booking at the Beach: Chicago authors with new novels explore the city's formidable reading tastes"

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 20/06/2026

My poem "Lake Myth" was selected to appear on a bus in Racine this year, courtesy of The Poetry Movement 🚌📝 Read other winning poems & the complete bus poetry anthology here: www.thepoetrymovement.org/bus-poems

Lake Myth poem by Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch which reads: They say Poseidon's sea raged. / But here, lakeside birds float / light as my troubles feel / contemplating this divine blue expanse / the meeting of sky and release. The words "float" and "release" are visually set apart to the right of the rest of the poem.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 05/06/2026

Great fun working with Rick Kogan @chicagotribune.com & Stefano Esposito @chicago.suntimes.com to tell the stories of a few of the 90+ writers featured at the free #AmericanWritersFestival this weekend (June 6 & 7) hosted by @americanwritersmuseum.org & @chipublib.bsky.social 📚✍️ #AWFest2026

Pictures of feature articles in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times about the American Writers Festival. One has a picture of four women typing on typewriters at the American Writers Museum, and the other has a photo of Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Kraus in his home looking at a manuscript draft.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 11/05/2026

One of my poems will be traveling around on the side of a BUS this summer! ✨🚍✨ Thrilled to be selected for this moving poetry installation thanks to The Poetry Movement & RYDE Racine. What a great way to provide free public access to literature! I hope Wisconsin riders like my poem, "Lake Myth."

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 20/04/2026

Today I met the brilliant author @susanorlean.bsky.social who wrote one of my favorite books (THE LIBRARY BOOK) at the LA Times Festival of Books AKA #Bookchella. The vibes here were 🔥 which coincidentally is related to Susan's book. #bookfest #latimesfob

Author Susan Orlean wearing a lime green long skirt and short sleeve white top, standing next to Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch who wears light blue jean shorts and an American Writers Museum branded tee. Elizabeth is hosting a copy of The Library Book, a red book with gold text on the front. The two women are smiling because book festivals are fun!

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 17/04/2026

Excited for the @latimes.com Festival of Books this weekend, April 18 & 19! Come see me at booth 67 with the American Writers Museum & meet bestselling author @susanorlean.bsky.social on Sunday at 11am. She will be signing copies of her new book JOYRIDE. #bookfest #latfob #booklover

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 23/03/2026

My latest Newcity magazine review is about a new novel from Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, a writer of mysterious and heartfelt stories about strong women, inspired by Russian history & folklore. Read it below. #BookRecommendation #WomensHistoryMonth

Cover of The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru. Text is in red all-caps letters over a Paris streetscape in which a woman in a long red coat stands on front of a house whose windows are illuminated in the dusk, the Eiffel Tower appearing from the mist in the background.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 11/03/2026

Thanks @ninametz.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com for this great interview about the National Hellenic Museum's Trial of Odysseus, and why the myth remains so compelling today. Story linked below 🏺🔱⛵️🏛 #TheOdyssey #mythology #TheOdysseyMovie

Text reading "The Trial of Odysseus" with an ancient Greek figure standing among the letters with a bow and arrow held up. Beneath it says "Hero or criminal? You decide."

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 05/03/2026

I'm on assignment writing about summer books ☀️📚 Specifically from Chicago & Midwest authors. If this sounds like you, and your book comes out June-August, link your details below! All genres welcome. #beachreads #booksky #WritingCommunity #newbooks

A woman sitting on a beach reading a book, facing towards the water. Text over the image says "I'm covering new summer books"

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 07/02/2026

Recently interviewed the director and playwright of @the-rsc.bsky.social production of Hamnet, adapted from the brilliant Maggie O'Farrell novel. The US premiere of the play opens at @chicagoshakes.bsky.social soon. Very excited to see it! More in my @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social story, linked below.

Cover of Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET with the new cover featuring a still image of Will and Agnes Shakespeare from the film adaptation.

Kemi-Bo Jacobs (Agnes) in rehearsal for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamnet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Photo by Manuel Harlan, courtesy of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 16/01/2026

Themes of place & legacy, and of celebration & erasure, resonate throughout “Lingering Inland,” a new anthology of 70+ essays exploring how Midwestern locales have inspired American letters. Editor @andyoler.bsky.social & forward by @joseolivarez.bsky.social. More in my Newcity feature linked below!

The cover of "Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest," with an overhead picture of a car driving down a country road between fields.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 27/12/2025

Outside the Chicago Humanities event with @margaretatwood.bsky.social, women in Handmaid-style red robes were handing out anti-fascist pamphlets to attendees. "Some people object to having you say out loud the thing that they have said themselves they want to do," Atwood said of her iconic book. 1/

Acclaimed novelist and poet Margaret Atwood speaks during a Chicago Humanities Festival event in November 2025

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 20/10/2025

Had a blast at ABC7 Chicago today for an interview about ancient Greek poet Homer’s Odyssey and the National Hellenic Museum's two-day Homerathon this week! Segment linked below 🔱⛵️🧜‍♀️🏺

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 23/08/2025

Fun morning with WGN TV talking about Chicago's Taste of Greektown festival and the National Hellenic Museum 🇬🇷✨️ Proud to rep this neighborhood and my Greek American heritage. More in my interview linked below!

Two women dance the Greek kalamatianos in the street with the Taste of Greektown fest tents set up around them. One is in a blue jean dress and the other is wearing a blue and white patterned dress with a white cardigan.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 01/08/2025

New book loading... 📖✨️ Beyond excited to be awarded a residency fellowship from @the-vcca.bsky.social to work on my second novel! I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity and support--especially given the deeply personal origin of my new project. #VCCAFellows #writinglife #artistresidency

Overhead image of the barn studios and silos at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Text says "Writer Going to VCCA!"

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 22/07/2025

For anyone who loves myths or American tall tales, check out @giano.bsky.social fantastical, heartfelt debut novel AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY! A great read. More in my first review for Newcity magazine, linked below. #NewBooks #booksky #BookReview #BookRecommendation

The cover of American Mythology by Giano Cromley. A large unidentifiable shadow looks out at a pink and purple sunset over the mountains.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 04/06/2025

Congrats to all the Chicago literary VIPs featured in this year's Newcity Lit 50, including friends @jesskeller42.bsky.social & @anandalima.bsky.social @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, Bette Cerf Hill, @mbwwelch.bsky.social, and @awmuseum.bsky.social Carey Cranston & Allison Sansone! #ChicagoIsLit 📚

Images of Newcity Lit 50 honorees Bette Cerf Hill, Bonnie Sanchez-Carlson, Jessica Keller and Ananda Lima

Black magazine page with Lit 50 in stylized white typeface, the cover of the Newcity special section

Images of Newcity Lit 50 honorees Andrea Change, Faylita Hicks, Allison Sansone and Carey Cranston

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 15/05/2025

Fun previewing the massive Vivid Creatures sculptures at The MortonArboretum this past week with @nbcchicago.com & @wgntv.com 🌈🐌🌳 A beautiful and whimsical exhibition!

A woman in a hunter green coat and an NBC Chicago reporter in a bright blue coat standing in front of a massive rainbow-colored snail sculpture at The Morton Arboretum.

A WGN TV crew interviews artists Heather and Fez BeGaetz next to a vivid multi-colored 25-foot-tall sculpture of a buck at The Morton Arboretum.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 20/04/2025

Great morning at @abc7chicago.bsky.social with acclaimed author @nghivo.bsky.social & @awmuseum.bsky.social president Carey Cranston, talking about the "Making New Gods" event this Tuesday 4/22 at Harold Washington Library - which kicks off the museum's new #AmericanProphets initiative.

Poster for the Making New Gods event, with author headshots for Nghi Vo, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor and Matthew Kirby.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 29/03/2025

"The Portable Feminist Reader" is essential reading. All women are not yet free, but in this sweeping intersectional collection, @roxanegay.bsky.social reminds us that feminists have the collective power to create a more inclusive & equitable future. More in my @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social review.

Cover of the Portable Feminist Reader edited by Roxane Gay. The image is a graphic of women of different ethnicities in a Cubism style, with a green, white and pink background.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 18/03/2025

This Trial event is not livestreamed, but you can watch last year's Trial of Pericles on Lakeshore PBS on Wednesday, March 19 at 9pm or Thursday, March 27 at 6pm!

Poster for the Trial of Pericles on Lakeshore PBS, with a bust of an ancient Greek soldier

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 10/03/2025

"In a world that often seems hopeless, we’re all searching for stories that give us hope.” My interview with Emmy-winning filmmaker Tod Lending about his cinematic, heartfelt WWII novel The Umbrella Maker’s Son (@harpercollins.bsky.social) is up on @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. Link below! 📽 📖

Cover of three novel The Umbrella Maker’s Son by Tod Lending, with the shadow of two men walking arm in arm against a foggy orange cityscape. The men are wearing the star of David on their arms.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 06/03/2025

A little introduction: Hi I'm Elizabeth! My #WIP is a modern Greek American immigrant story... but with Greek myths, folk stories & a touch of magic thrown in ✨🏺🫒🏛 What are you writing? I follow back all writers! #WritingCommunity #writesky #booksky

A Greek American white woman with dark hair pulled back. She is wearing a floral patterned tee shirt in fuschia, light pink and blue. She is standing in front of a white stone archway on a Greek island.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 02/03/2025

THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA: BRIEF ESSAYS ON ALTERED SIGHT by Naomi Cohn, the latest hybrid title from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, is an unforgettable series of poetic "definitions" unlike anything you've ever read. More in my highly recommended review! @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social #BookRecommendation

Cover of The Braille Encyclopedia by Naomi Cohn, with raised braille letters beneath each character in the title.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 27/02/2025

Great time on @cbsnews.com Chicago this morning with Greektown restaurants to preview the annual Greektown Restaurant Week! Kicks off this Saturday with gyros, lamb, saganaki & more. OPA 🇬🇷🥂 #GreektownChicago

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 26/02/2025

"We need storytellers who aren’t afraid to be messy, raw, urgent, and immediate." Worth a read: this incredible essay from @chicagoreader.com editor @kerryreid.bsky.social on the essential work of arts journalists & artists in @americantheatre.bsky.social. Link below. Support your local media!

A picture of paper going through a printing press, above an essay headline that reads: singing from the last ditch. Endangered but essential, the work of arts journalists offers a repository and a reflection of the voices we need more than ever in dark times.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 20/02/2025

#ChicagoIsLit in March: literary icon & NYT bestseller @roxanegay.bsky.social joins @wbez.org March 26 for a chat about new book "The Portable Feminist Reader," which she edited. So you know it's good! Stay tuned for my review of this @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social book during #WomensHistoryMonth

Text reading "An evening with Roxane Gay and Sasha-Ann Simons" next to headshots of both Black women. Gay is wearing a gray sweater with her head resting in her hand. Simons is wearing a light colored top with a small pattern and large hoop earrings.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 09/02/2025

Love this story about fellow #WashU alumna @elissabassist.bsky.social and highly recommend her debut memoir HYSTERICAL! Link to interview below. #BookRecommendation #Booksky

Cartoon illustration of a woman screaming on the cover of the memoir Hysterical by Elissa Bassist

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 31/01/2025

For all you book lovers & writers: my latest #ChicagoIsLit 📚 column for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social highlights a monthlong literary Pub Crawl from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, a WWII novel debut at Illinois Holocaust Museum, events w/authors across the city & more! Link below. #FreedomtoRead

Two men in shadow walk under an umbrella on the orange cover of novel The Umbrella Maker's Son

Author Gillian Flynn appears on a poster for StoryStudio's Pub Crawl, February 2025

Event posterfor A Season of Light at Call & Response Books, including author Julie Iromuanya

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 21/01/2025

Chicago writers: tomorrow, Jan. 21 is the FREE event/inspiration sesh Reading Your Resistance & Writing Your Resistance, hosted by @storystudiochicago.bsky.social and moderated by @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social. With @meganstielstra.bsky.social @michaelzapata.bsky.social & more! Registration link below.

Flyer for a free panel hosted by StoryStudio Chicago with text that says: Reading Your Resistance and Writing Your Resistance, Tuesday January 21 at 7pm

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 27/12/2024

Proud to write for Third Coast Review and promote Chicago's literary events & books! You can support my work and many other arts writers with a small donation to our year-end fundraiser: third-coast-review.fundjournalism.org/support #ChicagoIsLit #BookSky #artscriticism @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social

A picture of writer Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch in a sleeveless navy dress with green foliage in the background. Text is overlaid saying, I've always followed arts criticism in Chicago and I admire the journalists giving our incredible artists and arts organizations a much-needed boost.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 17/12/2024

LOVE this story from Chris Borrelli in @chicagotribune.com about Chicagoans of the Year in Books, the fabulous Javier and Kristin at Exile in Bookville at the Fine Arts Building! 📚✨ Article linked below.

Co-owners Kristin and Javier Ramirez stand in their bookstore Exile in Bookville, with a wall of books bathed in red light behind them.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 16/12/2024

Feeling inspired after a holiday gathering & writing workshop with my Novel in a Year cohort from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social. We've met nearly every month since 2020. So grateful for these brilliant and supportive peers! ❤️📚 #WritingCommunity

A group of smiling friends standing indoors in front of a Christmas tree.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 12/12/2024

@thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social is holding our year-end fundraiser to help pay writers like me for our work at this hyper-local arts & culture website. If you’ve enjoyed reading my Chicago lit articles there, I hope you’ll consider making a small contribution. Link in comment below ⬇️

An image of the Chicago Theatre with text reading, Ensure hyper-local arts journalism thrives in your neighborhood and across Chicago. Every penny pays writers.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 05/12/2024

#ChicagoisLit in December with literary events from WBEZ, @awmuseum.bsky.social, Poetry Brothel Chicago & 57th Street Books, plus an illuminating new Poetry Foundation exhibit. More in my @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social column linked below!

A person wearing a black dress stands on stage with an audience in the background holding phones up with many twinkling lights.

A series of vintage bronze frames on a wall, which show pictures of poets reading and burlesque and circus acts.

An exhibition room at the Poetry Foundation bathed in red, purple and green light, with a series of floor-to-ceiling windows along the left side.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 25/11/2024

Incredible time reading from my novel with fellow @storystudiochicago.bsky.social alumni at The Book Cellar! Writing is so often solitary work & it was amazing to remember we have a whole community cheering us on 💜 And to be inspired by other writers' work! #WritingCommunity #booksky #writerslife

Author Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch reading from her novel in front of shelves of books

Author Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch with friends at her reading

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 20/11/2024

Hi #WritingCommunity! A little intro: I'm a writer of #literaryfiction and #fiction exploring how Greek myths & storytelling resonate in our current time 🫒⛵️🧜‍♀️🏺 Current WIP is about a Greek American immigrant with a strange connection to a Greek revolutionary heroine. #booksky #writers #authors

Writer Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch in front of the Parthenon in Athens.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 15/11/2024

Chicago friends: I'm reading a lil preview of my debut novel in public for the first time (!) next Thursday, Nov. 21 at 6:30pm at the Book Cellar along with other @storystudiochicago.bsky.social alumni. Would love to see you there! 📖✨️ #WritingCommunity

Poster for the fall student reading from StoryStudio at the Book Cellar in Chicago on November 21

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 29/10/2024

After years of editing & querying my debut novel... BEYOND THRILLED to be represented by Emily Forland at Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents! She understands the vision & heart of my book, and the opinionated, slightly witchy Greek village women who inhabit it🏺🫒🏛️✨ #writingcommunity #writinglife

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 03/03/2024

Up next: new books from Chicago authors Abby Geni and Rowan Beaird. Can't wait to dig into THE BODY FARM and THE DIVORCÉES!

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 05/02/2024

It's my first AWP (!) and I already have FOMO about all the concurrent events. But hope to see some of you at this fun event Friday 2/9 hosted by StoryStudio and @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social! #AWP24

Battle of the Genres event on February 9 during the AWP conference, hosted by StoryStudio Chicago

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 09/01/2024

American Fiction is a must-see film for writers. This is the kind of film I wish they'd shown us in high school English (along with reading the Percival Everett novel it's based on, of course). The entire cast is incredible, particularly Jeffery Wright.

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 20/12/2023

As protests continue in Thailand, I spoke with author Sunisa Manning about her novel A GOOD TRUE THAI (Epigram Books), censorship & political action, for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. "The impulse towards truth and freedom is not just an American impulse." chireviewofbooks.com/2023/12/18/t...

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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 05/11/2023

BRAVO to the incredible cast and artistic team of the funniest Shakespeare production I've ever seen: Twelfth Night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Set in the Caribbean and filled with joy, dancing, soulful ballads and real heart. This one is a must-see!

Cast members in Twelfth Night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

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