Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
@elizabethniarchosneukirch.com
🇬🇷 Fiction writer & nonprofit PR consultant
📝 Modern life + Greek myths, folk stories and women’s oral histories
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📷: Diane Alexander White
📝 Modern life + Greek myths, folk stories and women’s oral histories
Rep: Emily Forland (Brandt & Hochman)
📷: Diane Alexander White
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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
Thanks to Rick Kogan at @chicagotribune.com for this wonderful piece about the American Writers Museum’s new exhibit! American Prophets: Writers, Religion & Culture is an expansive, fascinating initiative and it was a pleasure to work on this. Highly recommend stopping by if you're in Chicago!
Column: In ‘American Prophets,’ how writers feel about religion and spirituality
Column: In ‘American Prophets,’ how writers feel about religion and spirituality
A new exhibit at American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue has the words of Flannery O’Connor, Malcolm X, Harold Ramis and others about how they felt about religion and spirituality.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Thanks to Rick Kogan at @chicagotribune.com for this wonderful piece about the American Writers Museum’s new exhibit! American Prophets: Writers, Religion & Culture is an expansive, fascinating initiative and it was a pleasure to work on this. Highly recommend stopping by if you're in Chicago!
I cannot overstate what an inspiring, brilliant & empowering teacher-essayist @meganstielstra.bsky.social is. So if you have stories inside you that you are terrified of writing and/or feel like they are clawing their way out of you, you should probably join me in January.
LET'S GO 🖊🔥
LET'S GO 🖊🔥
Have you heard?! The force of nature that is @meganstielstra.bsky.social is teaching a four-session online class starting Jan 8. This class will give writers everything they need to know to write powerful personal essays that center the human experience.
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Urgency and the Personal Essay: Four Lessons on What to Say, How to Say it, Revision, and Submitting with Megan Stielstra - StoryStudio Chicago
"I’ve written a hundred course descriptions in my career, but over the past few months these paragraphs feel new and charged and vital. What does it mean to write in this time? To write of this time?…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I cannot overstate what an inspiring, brilliant & empowering teacher-essayist @meganstielstra.bsky.social is. So if you have stories inside you that you are terrified of writing and/or feel like they are clawing their way out of you, you should probably join me in January.
LET'S GO 🖊🔥
LET'S GO 🖊🔥
Proud to work with this incredible literary nonprofit & serve on its board. Congratulations to the whole staff for this deserved recognition of your work! 👏🏻
HUGE ANNOUCEMENT: We are beside ourselves with excitement to share with you that we've been awarded a $100,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Proud to work with this incredible literary nonprofit & serve on its board. Congratulations to the whole staff for this deserved recognition of your work! 👏🏻
In my first article for Newcity magazine, I spoke with @finejuli.bsky.social (writing as Margaux Eliot) about Honeymoon Stage, her "MTV reality show book" 🎬🌴💄
More on this witty & humorous romp through early aughts pop culture in the story linked below!
More on this witty & humorous romp through early aughts pop culture in the story linked below!
Julia Fine Takes Readers Behind the Reality Show Cameras in “Honeymoon Stage,” Writing as Margaux Eliot
For anyone who's ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the making of a reality show, Chicago author Julia Fine provides a look at the off-screen drama in her new novel, “Honeymoon Stage.”
lit.newcity.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In my first article for Newcity magazine, I spoke with @finejuli.bsky.social (writing as Margaux Eliot) about Honeymoon Stage, her "MTV reality show book" 🎬🌴💄
More on this witty & humorous romp through early aughts pop culture in the story linked below!
More on this witty & humorous romp through early aughts pop culture in the story linked below!
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Thank you @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com !!!
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
July 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Thank you @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com !!!
As someone who survived a major medical trauma, I really cannot recommend Small Rain enough. This book is a philosophical, nuanced, beautifully lyrical meditation on illness and survival and hope for what comes after. Heartfelt congrats @garthgreenwell.bsky.social on this deserved award!
Small Rain has won the PEN/Faulkner Award. I don’t know what to say, except that I’m very grateful to the judges, & very moved to see my book included alongside such excellent writers.
October 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
As someone who survived a major medical trauma, I really cannot recommend Small Rain enough. This book is a philosophical, nuanced, beautifully lyrical meditation on illness and survival and hope for what comes after. Heartfelt congrats @garthgreenwell.bsky.social on this deserved award!
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Thanks to Colvin House for hosting and the Book Cellar for selling books (and providing the book cover cake)! And thanks to everybody who came to @bethrooney.bsky.social's and my launch party for LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social!
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Thanks to Colvin House for hosting and the Book Cellar for selling books (and providing the book cover cake)! And thanks to everybody who came to @bethrooney.bsky.social's and my launch party for LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social!
This Novel in a Year program not only helped me finish my first book, it led me to a supportive community of writers I've been workshopping with since 2020. (With thanks to author-instructor Abby Geni for encouraging my ambitious project even when it felt impossible.)
Novel In A Year applications are open! Make 2026 the year you dedicated to your book. All 2026 cohorts are online -- so apply from anywhere in the country.
Here are all the details on the five programs now open for application (deadline to apply is 11/14): buff.ly/LJufAYB
#writingcommunity
Here are all the details on the five programs now open for application (deadline to apply is 11/14): buff.ly/LJufAYB
#writingcommunity
October 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This Novel in a Year program not only helped me finish my first book, it led me to a supportive community of writers I've been workshopping with since 2020. (With thanks to author-instructor Abby Geni for encouraging my ambitious project even when it felt impossible.)
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 🔱⛵️🧜♀️🏺
October 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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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Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko
YouTube video by Kidzuko
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October 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
Wait for it... 🔥
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wait for it... 🔥
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We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳
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"We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write."
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
September 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write."
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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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
July 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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
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Join the thronging (or so @storystudiochicago.bsky.social tells me) throngs who are thronging to sign up for this super-duper, IISSM, four-part copyediting celebration!
A Copy Editor’s Guide: Four Lessons on the Art, Craft, and Refinement of Prose, with Benjamin Dreyer - StoryStudio Chicago
Benjamin Dreyer, retired copy chief of Random House and the author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer’s English, will unpack his capacious bag of tricks, previously secret advice, and all-round b...
www.storystudiochicago.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Join the thronging (or so @storystudiochicago.bsky.social tells me) throngs who are thronging to sign up for this super-duper, IISSM, four-part copyediting celebration!
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The 2025 volume of CLOCKHOUSE, a national literary journal, has just been published, & I'm honored it includes my short story "Otto and Edith." So grateful to the entire CLOCKHOUSE team! For more info and to order visit clockhouse.net. #writingcommunity #fightfascism #defenddemocracy
August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The 2025 volume of CLOCKHOUSE, a national literary journal, has just been published, & I'm honored it includes my short story "Otto and Edith." So grateful to the entire CLOCKHOUSE team! For more info and to order visit clockhouse.net. #writingcommunity #fightfascism #defenddemocracy
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!
August 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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!
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We will be publishing cultural criticism every day at The Rumpus. We hope to fill some of this egregious void being created by the mainstream media. Relaunch is in October but we are also publishing between now and then.
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
We will be publishing cultural criticism every day at The Rumpus. We hope to fill some of this egregious void being created by the mainstream media. Relaunch is in October but we are also publishing between now and then.
Love doesn't always arrive when you're ready. Sometimes, it kicks the door in.
August 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Great interview on @wdcb909.bsky.social "The Arts Section" today with @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social about StoryBoard Festival Aug. 16-17, presented by @storystudiochicago.bsky.social
#writingcommunity 🖊✨️📚
Listen here:
theartssection.org/episodes/202...
#writingcommunity 🖊✨️📚
Listen here:
theartssection.org/episodes/202...
The Arts Section 08/10/25: Author Rebecca Makkai + Paramount Theater Forced to Make Changes — The Arts Section
On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary Zidek catches up with award-winning author Rebecca Makkai to talk about a writers festival taking place in Chicago. The Dueling Critics, Kelly Kleiman an...
theartssection.org
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Great interview on @wdcb909.bsky.social "The Arts Section" today with @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social about StoryBoard Festival Aug. 16-17, presented by @storystudiochicago.bsky.social
#writingcommunity 🖊✨️📚
Listen here:
theartssection.org/episodes/202...
#writingcommunity 🖊✨️📚
Listen here:
theartssection.org/episodes/202...
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Our Authors in Conversation event is coming up soon -- August 13! This free event at Sulzer Library features our five StoryBoard Conference & Festival instructors and our Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai.
RSVP for your spot now: buff.ly/FwVOOEt
#chicago
RSVP for your spot now: buff.ly/FwVOOEt
#chicago
July 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Our Authors in Conversation event is coming up soon -- August 13! This free event at Sulzer Library features our five StoryBoard Conference & Festival instructors and our Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai.
RSVP for your spot now: buff.ly/FwVOOEt
#chicago
RSVP for your spot now: buff.ly/FwVOOEt
#chicago
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
July 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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
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Absolutely stunned & over the moon to win the inaugural DAG Prize in Literature, an award to a writer "whose work expands the possibilities of American art."
With my entire corazón, thank you to @dagfoundation.bsky.social, Andrew Altschul, & @vauhinivara.bsky.social.
lithub.com/michael-zapa...
With my entire corazón, thank you to @dagfoundation.bsky.social, Andrew Altschul, & @vauhinivara.bsky.social.
lithub.com/michael-zapa...
Michael Zapata has won the inaugural DAG Prize for Literature.
Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural DAG Prizes, which award $20,000 each to a visual artist, a writer, and a musician “whose work expands the possibilities for Am…
lithub.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Absolutely stunned & over the moon to win the inaugural DAG Prize in Literature, an award to a writer "whose work expands the possibilities of American art."
With my entire corazón, thank you to @dagfoundation.bsky.social, Andrew Altschul, & @vauhinivara.bsky.social.
lithub.com/michael-zapa...
With my entire corazón, thank you to @dagfoundation.bsky.social, Andrew Altschul, & @vauhinivara.bsky.social.
lithub.com/michael-zapa...
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Thank you @art.newcity.com.web.brid.gy for the lovely review of American Mythology!
lit.newcity.com/2025/07/21/f...
#Bigfoot #bookreview @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
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#Bigfoot #bookreview @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
Book Review: Giano Cromley's “American Mythology”
This is a novel for anyone who delights in myths old or new—their bold claims of what might be possible in our world, and what they reveal about the magic of the everyday.
lit.newcity.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thank you @art.newcity.com.web.brid.gy for the lovely review of American Mythology!
lit.newcity.com/2025/07/21/f...
#Bigfoot #bookreview @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
lit.newcity.com/2025/07/21/f...
#Bigfoot #bookreview @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
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
July 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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