Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Who Wants A Migraine

Nicolle Elizabeth began publishing online in 2003 when she wrote an article on Write To Eat, a graffiti collective in Boston which helps inner city artists gain college scholarships. She was a writer way before that though she won her first writing contest when she was 8 it was in the paper and everything. She has since written for Best Women's Travel Writing, Words Without Borders, The National Book Critics Circle blog, The Brooklyn Rail, The Faster Times, 3:AM and many other publications. She won the National Haiku Contest in 2007 and has had many impressive some would say clearly the best writing of all time articles, essays, reviews, interviews and stories published, some of which are listed below. She is the publisher of the annual print journal The 12 am Project and the Poetry Editor of Word Riot, Inc. She is a fiction writer foremost, actually.

Here are links to some of her work. The sentences below start with I for a reason, people.

2012:

I have written a review of Gowanus Atropolis for The Believer which can be read in the February issue in print as well as here

I am a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee in Fiction representing The Good Men Project for this story here

I have a short story about folklore in this issue of The Brooklyn Voice here

I have a prose poem in the January issue of elimae here

I am the first e-book from Dark Sky Press in history. It can be purchased for 3.99 here

The wonderful writer Kathy Fish has reviewed my first e-book from Dark Sky Press in history here She says I am sad and funny, which is so my life. Ryan Ridge mentioned he liked this book at Dzanc recently which was so nice here and Matt Bell also mentioned this book recently, which is so nice. here

I placed 2nd runner up in this year's Rose Metal Press annual chapbook contest which can be read about here

I had three short fiction pieces in Spork as edited by Powell's//Future Tense Kevin Sampsell here

BOMBMAG called they said you are going to review Tin House co-founder/editor/Vanity Fair contributor Elissa Schappell's short story collection, and i said UM, HELLO? and they said, k great we're sending the book now. i wrote the review and they said, you go girl now you are going to interview her, and i said UM, HELLO? You can read that here

I have a short story in this way dark first issue of Heavy Feather which right now is on the top 10 best seller anthology list at amazon.com here

2011:

I was in Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 here

I write about books at The Brooklyn Rail sometimes here and here and here and here and here

Publishing Genius Published an e-chapbook of my poetry it is available here

Electric Literature had me cover the HTMLGIANT event at AWP DC but via email here

I had a long prose poem in elimae here

I had a short story in Every Day Genius here

Ladies Home Journal interviewed us travel writers in brief here

I had a short story in Matter Press here

I had a fiction list in Noo Journal here

Sometimes I write about books at The Faster Times here

I solved the Voynich Manuscript at The Rumpus here

We Who Are About To Die asked me to interview J Bradley here

Before becoming the poetry editor at Word Riot I wrote fiction there here

I sometimes write about music at 3 AM UK which is published in the UK here

I Am A Party listed me as one of the power 25 in internet publishing here

I had a short story in Big Lucks here

I had a short story in Night Train here

I had a poem in elimae here

I had a short story in The Very Beautiful Women Anthology here

I had a short story about football in the gridiron Burnt Bridge issue which I think was also the back cover of the book itself here

2010:

I did a little blogging for the National Book Critics Circle here

I wrote about books at The Brooklyn Rail here and here and here and here

Dark Sky interviewed me about writing here

From 2009-2011 I was the weekly check-in columnist at Fictionaut. Here Are 50+ quickie interviews I did for them here

I participated in a community cookbook and HTMLGiant let me mention it here we were on the cooking channel and everything

I had a short story in Night Train here

I did an interview for The Faster Times here

I wrote about being sick at The Rumpus here

I wrote about women singing the blues in New York at The Rumpus here

I broke the record for most stories in one year at Wigleaf here and here and here and here and here

2009:

I had a short story published at Anderbo here

I interviewed my friend about music at The Brooklyn Rail here

I wrote about books at The Brooklyn Rail here

I had a short story at elimae here and here and here

I had a short story at Night Train here

I had a short story in Wigleaf here

I interviewed my friend about music for 2 AM UK here

It has been my great honor to write about translated literature so much for Words Without Borders here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here

I had a short story in the inaugural issue of Kill Author here

I had a short story in Caketrain Issue 07 here

I had some poetry in Sawbuck here

2008:

I won the Baltimore Urbanite's fiction contest here

I had a short story in elimae here

I had some prose poetry in SIR here

I had a short story Right Hand Pointing here

I had a short story in Robot Melon here

I had a short story in Weave here

I had a short story in Wigleaf here

2007:

I won the 2007 National Haiku Contest which was sponsored by the Aurorean here

I got into writing about architecture for one of Frank Gehry's lead designers here

I had a short story in Night Train here

2003-2006:

I wrote about music and fashion at www.karmaloop.com and www.skopemagazine.com while applying to grad schools for an mfa in fiction.

-sorry woulda done more but i've been working on a novel this whole time.