nonimou's Profile
| Penname: | nonimou |
| Country: | United States |
| Web address: | www.sydneeelliot.com |
| Favorite book: | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Member type: | Author |
| Member Since: | Mar 5, 2008 |
| Bio: | Sydnee Elliot, writer and painter, was born in Boston and studied at Boston University. After graduation and one failed marriage she moved to Berkeley. Three years later she moved to Las Vegas and worked in the gambling industry for twenty years. While in Las Vegas she studied playwriting at UNLV. In 1995, Sydnee moved to Greece, her life-long dream finally achieved. During her ten-year stay on the island of Kythera, Sydnee wrote fifty short stories, one novel, painted and sold hundred of paintings, and designed unique clothing for women. Upon receiving news that she was soon to be a grandmother, she returned to the states. Sydnee’s full-length manuscript, Polly Brilliant’s Wild Dance, aka Remember Me??? short-listed in fifth place in the Writer’s Forum Magazine Novel Contest in England. BBC World Service Radio produced Ms. Elliot’s short story, In Memoriam, in 1998. Her short story, Funny Stuff, was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Contest, and Obituary was short-listed in third place in The Writer's Digest contest. The Long Short Story, an online ezine, chose She Never Noticed the Flowers as story of the month. Ms. Elliot has had numerous stories published in small literary magazines in England and on various ezines. Insolent Rudder published She Never Noticed the Flowers in July, 2008. Stone Stories will be published in the November, 2008 issue of Patchwork Path. Before committing to writing fiction, Ms. Elliot received two grants from the Nevada State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency for productions of two full length plays, Tell Me That You Love Me, Abe Schwartz and Reservations. See How Freely I Dance Now, St. Benedict, a one-act play, was presented at UNLV by the Allied Arts Council Theater Division’s Off-Year Festival sponsored by the Nevada Community Theatre Association in Reno and the Theatre Arts Department of UNLV. City Weeds, placed second in the JOHN McHugh MEMORIAL AWARDS sponsored by the Allied Arts Council Playwriting Competition. Poetry Greece, published on the island of Corfu, featured Ms. Elliot as artist of the month and printed several of her poems along with her paintings under the name of Ellen Karatzaferis. Sydnee resides in Las Vegas where she is writing a new novel, Getting What You Deserve and editing Polly Brilliant’s Wild Dance. |
User Writings
| Title/Name | Date | Ranking | Reviews | Type | |
| Aug 8, 2008 | 66 | 136 | Novel | ||
POLLY BRILLIANT’S WILD DANCE is a... | |||||
| Aug 30, 2008 | 409 | New | Novel | ||
Three women meet in an abusive women's shelter... | |||||
| Jun 22, 2008 | 1595 | 5 | Poetry | ||
Some fun with animals in a zoo. Imagining what... | |||||
| Jun 11, 2008 | 1065 | 5 | Poetry | ||
Ever wonder what those ladies talk about during... | |||||
| Jun 11, 2008 | 1586 | 4 | Poetry | ||
Love means so many different things. It's all... | |||||
| Jun 18, 2008 | 1470 | 3 | Poetry | ||
A poem related to how time carries us forward... | |||||
| Jun 23, 2008 | 980 | 4 | Poetry | ||
Looking at life through aged eyes. Reflecting... | |||||
| Jul 1, 2008 | 246 | 10 | Poetry | ||
I remember watching my grandmother dancing... | |||||
| Jul 13, 2008 | 1377 | 4 | Poetry | ||
A reflection on lost love, things remembered... | |||||
| Mar 5, 2008 | 988 | 6 | Short Story | ||
A painted chair narrates this story of love... | |||||
| Aug 30, 2008 | 542 | 8 | Short Story | ||
A woman is obsessed with germs on toilet seats... | |||||
| Jul 23, 2008 | 1288 | 3 | Short Story | ||
Miriam meets another Jerko, but this one is a... | |||||
| Jun 25, 2008 | 514 | 9 | Short Story | ||
Humorous look at daily foibles due to aging.... | |||||
| Jun 27, 2008 | 1073 | 5 | Short Story | ||
A woman experiences the perfect orgasm with... | |||||
| May 24, 2008 | 328 | 10 | Short Story | ||
A woman returns to a familiar childhood scene... | |||||
| May 24, 2008 | 771 | 6 | Short Story | ||
The end of a relationship, or is it? | |||||
| Jun 6, 2008 | 551 | 8 | Short Story | ||
A young woman with an unusual pen name awaits... | |||||
| Jun 8, 2008 | 1005 | 5 | Short Story | ||
A woman bored with her life attempts to find... | |||||
| Jun 8, 2008 | 1238 | 3 | Short Story | ||
Who is the man in the white suit and will Alice... | |||||
| Jul 1, 2008 | 1022 | 6 | Short Story | ||
Another dysfunctional family story. A sister... | |||||
| Jul 13, 2008 | 1392 | New | Short Story | ||
An elderly woman flirts with a younger man. All... | |||||
| Jul 11, 2008 | 932 | 6 | Short Story | ||
A grieving man sits and reflects on his wife,... | |||||
| Jul 14, 2008 | 1393 | New | Short Story | ||
Herkie and Merkie try to get a divorce in... | |||||
| Jul 14, 2008 | 1199 | 3 | Short Story | ||
A woman writes a poem and yearns to share it.... | |||||
| Jul 15, 2008 | 1122 | 3 | Short Story | ||
A young person reflects on the death of a... | |||||
| Jul 18, 2008 | 832 | 10 | Short Story | ||
Jennie discovers a unique hobby while in a... | |||||
| Jul 29, 2008 | 179 | 12 | Short Story | ||
How I started to write. Does the story flow... | |||||
| Aug 6, 2008 | 1225 | 3 | Short Story | ||
A woman writes about her father and how he was... | |||||
| Aug 21, 2008 | 1157 | 5 | Short Story | ||
A woman sheds her past in an unusual way. Does... | |||||
