Eleni Polychronakos
@heleneleni.bsky.social
PhD Candidate: autobiographical genres, oral history, creative writing, gender studies, feminism. Reader. Writer. Swimmer. Dreamer. She/Her 🌈☮️
https://storytelling.concordia.ca/eleni-polychronakos/
https://storytelling.concordia.ca/eleni-polychronakos/
I don't bake much, so I like making easy desserts like this chocolate bark. Semi-sweet chocolate topped with roasted hazelnuts, white chocolate, and salt crystals.
December 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM
I don't bake much, so I like making easy desserts like this chocolate bark. Semi-sweet chocolate topped with roasted hazelnuts, white chocolate, and salt crystals.
I'm making hazelnut chocolate bark and am tempted to add dried cranberries for some festive colour. Yay or Nay? (This may be a divisive issue 🙃)
December 21, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I'm making hazelnut chocolate bark and am tempted to add dried cranberries for some festive colour. Yay or Nay? (This may be a divisive issue 🙃)
I'm editing my historical fiction short story/novella & looking for inspiration. I read a sample of Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium. Everything I tried to read after that felt like biting into an orange slice after eating triple-chocolate brownie.
December 7, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I'm editing my historical fiction short story/novella & looking for inspiration. I read a sample of Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium. Everything I tried to read after that felt like biting into an orange slice after eating triple-chocolate brownie.
An excellent book of short stories I read this fall.
January 20, 2024 at 4:56 PM
An excellent book of short stories I read this fall.
New Year’s Eve along Canal Lachine.
December 31, 2023 at 10:40 PM
New Year’s Eve along Canal Lachine.
Fesenjan, or Persian Pomegranate Chicken. From a recipe taught to me by a former student at Mosaic Settlement Services in Burnaby, B.C.
December 30, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Fesenjan, or Persian Pomegranate Chicken. From a recipe taught to me by a former student at Mosaic Settlement Services in Burnaby, B.C.
Something I typed up the other day. I opened my laptop before swallowing my first sip of coffee. In my not-yet-awake state, this is what I saw:
December 28, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Something I typed up the other day. I opened my laptop before swallowing my first sip of coffee. In my not-yet-awake state, this is what I saw:
OK. Threads is officially a trash heap. I'm inundated w/ these anti-feminist, transphobic, bigoted, ultra-conservative shouters. Why is Meta even showing me these? What, exactly is its algorithm up to?
December 28, 2023 at 1:01 PM
OK. Threads is officially a trash heap. I'm inundated w/ these anti-feminist, transphobic, bigoted, ultra-conservative shouters. Why is Meta even showing me these? What, exactly is its algorithm up to?
Last night I finished watching the final season of Sex Education. My favourite characters were Eric and (of course!) Maeve, but I loved all of the truly diverse and inclusive cast. I'd love to see something in the same vein, but with middle-aged characters. Please, #Neflix!
October 23, 2023 at 8:33 PM
Last night I finished watching the final season of Sex Education. My favourite characters were Eric and (of course!) Maeve, but I loved all of the truly diverse and inclusive cast. I'd love to see something in the same vein, but with middle-aged characters. Please, #Neflix!
Super Sandwiches, in the basement of the Cartier Building on Sherbrooke & Peel, closed due to increased rent. I guess another ho-hum chain resto will take its place & charge x2 for 1/2 the quality. And then they wonder why nobody hangs out downtown anymore. www.thetribune.ca/news/super-s....
October 23, 2023 at 7:48 PM
Super Sandwiches, in the basement of the Cartier Building on Sherbrooke & Peel, closed due to increased rent. I guess another ho-hum chain resto will take its place & charge x2 for 1/2 the quality. And then they wonder why nobody hangs out downtown anymore. www.thetribune.ca/news/super-s....
Best description of misophonia ever. In Anne Enright’s The Wren, the Wren. Please understand me… I don’t mean to “overreact.” It is neurological.
October 19, 2023 at 7:36 PM
Best description of misophonia ever. In Anne Enright’s The Wren, the Wren. Please understand me… I don’t mean to “overreact.” It is neurological.
“Ghaza ghaza don’t you cry. We will never let you die.”
October 13, 2023 at 10:00 PM
“Ghaza ghaza don’t you cry. We will never let you die.”
In front of Concordia University now. Justin Trudeau you will see Palestine will be free.” 💔🖤❤️🩹
October 13, 2023 at 9:36 PM
In front of Concordia University now. Justin Trudeau you will see Palestine will be free.” 💔🖤❤️🩹
I hadn’t finished my other book yet and I was just going to a peek at Anecdotes but now I can’t stop reading. @themockler.bsky.social’s short stories / flash fiction pieces are emotionally honest without melodrama. They accomplish this with strikingly direct sentences and subtle humour.
October 13, 2023 at 2:38 AM
I hadn’t finished my other book yet and I was just going to a peek at Anecdotes but now I can’t stop reading. @themockler.bsky.social’s short stories / flash fiction pieces are emotionally honest without melodrama. They accomplish this with strikingly direct sentences and subtle humour.
I assumed many authors' "first novels" were autobiographical bildungsromane, but now I'm having trouble thinking of more than a couple of titles: Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy ... What else? #Fiction #Autobiography #Reading
October 12, 2023 at 7:18 PM
I assumed many authors' "first novels" were autobiographical bildungsromane, but now I'm having trouble thinking of more than a couple of titles: Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy ... What else? #Fiction #Autobiography #Reading
Lamb & tzatziki for turkey & gravy. Baklava for pumpkin pie. As we strive to decolonize, we offer thanks to the Kanien’kéha Nation, the Haundenosaunee Confederacy, and Anishinaabeg people who all have historical ties to Tiohtià:ke. Photos by @jendetracey.bsky.social 💕🩷 Peace & love to the world
October 9, 2023 at 6:36 PM
Lamb & tzatziki for turkey & gravy. Baklava for pumpkin pie. As we strive to decolonize, we offer thanks to the Kanien’kéha Nation, the Haundenosaunee Confederacy, and Anishinaabeg people who all have historical ties to Tiohtià:ke. Photos by @jendetracey.bsky.social 💕🩷 Peace & love to the world
Love the current cover of Concordia’s student newspaper, The Link. #TransAlly 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💕
October 6, 2023 at 9:43 PM
Love the current cover of Concordia’s student newspaper, The Link. #TransAlly 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💕
I'm not sure I have anything of the right length to submit to the CBC Short Story prize this year. However, I always enjoy seeing the list of readers for the prize. Such an interesting group of writers! www.cbc.ca/books/litera...
October 5, 2023 at 11:02 AM
I'm not sure I have anything of the right length to submit to the CBC Short Story prize this year. However, I always enjoy seeing the list of readers for the prize. Such an interesting group of writers! www.cbc.ca/books/litera...
I know that bisexual visibility day was last month, but let's keep the party going. Here's an article proving--with ample textual evidence from the novel and visual evidence from the movie--that Anne Shirley was bisexual. www.autostraddle.com/anne-of-gree...
October 4, 2023 at 11:43 AM
I know that bisexual visibility day was last month, but let's keep the party going. Here's an article proving--with ample textual evidence from the novel and visual evidence from the movie--that Anne Shirley was bisexual. www.autostraddle.com/anne-of-gree...
Some thought-provoking metafiction in Haruki Murakami's short story, Confessions of Shinagawa Monkey. A great story too. Humour just below the dour surface.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
September 26, 2023 at 7:12 PM
Some thought-provoking metafiction in Haruki Murakami's short story, Confessions of Shinagawa Monkey. A great story too. Humour just below the dour surface.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Look what came in the mail! I look forward to reading Kathryn Mockler's story collection, Anecdotes, from Book*hug Press. Don't you just love the cover? 📚
September 26, 2023 at 1:40 PM
Look what came in the mail! I look forward to reading Kathryn Mockler's story collection, Anecdotes, from Book*hug Press. Don't you just love the cover? 📚
Sometimes, the thesaurus is such a hard-ass, refusing to offer anything for that not-quite-right word. And sometimes a surfeit washes up on the page.
September 24, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Sometimes, the thesaurus is such a hard-ass, refusing to offer anything for that not-quite-right word. And sometimes a surfeit washes up on the page.