About the author

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Eric Robert Nolan’s award-nominated writing has appeared in over 50 publications in 10 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.  These include Newsday (New York State’s third-largest newspaper and America’s 10th-largest), the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia’s second-largest newspaper), The Roanoke Times (Virginia’s third-largest newspaper), The Free Lance-Star, The Daily Progress, the Eunoia Review, The Galway Review, Every Day Fiction and Quail Bell Magazine.  

Eric’s writing and photography were also included in 18 anthologies, two chapbooks, and six mini-books.  He was one of only eight poets worldwide selected for The Galway Review 12, the esteemed Irish magazine’s 2024 poetry anthology.  Every Writer’s Resource named his poem “The Writer” as one of EWR’s Best of 2019.  Eric’s award nominations include those for four Spillwords Press Awards and a 2018 nod for Sundress Best of the Net.

In 2021, Eric’s reflections on the 9/11 terror attacks were carried by Newsday and other major newspapers, reaching a combined readership of 706,000 people.  His commentary in 2022 about anti-intellectualism reached an even greater newspaper readership of 733,000.  One of Eric’s anti-Trump limericks was “liked” by more than 7,000 people in 2019 and was retweeted by George Conway of The Lincoln Project political action committee.  His 2013 novel The Dogs Don’t Bark in Brooklyn Any More was published by Dagda Publishing in Great Britain.

Eric is a past editor for the international literary journal, The Bees Are Dead.  He has been interviewed on Blog Talk Radio, by Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, by Bunbury Magazine and by Spillwords Press, and his poetry was featured periodically on the Dead Letter Radio podcast.  His writing was recognized in 2014 in the University of Mary Washington Magazine.  He was entered in 2022 into America’s Poets & Writers Directory.

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    1. Thanks, Dave! 🙂 It’s been great fun catching up with you recently, and it’s great for me to see an old friend and classmate succeeding with his own business. I wish you continued good luck!

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      1. Listen to the crickets cry … And the early birds sigh … As a bird takes a **** on a little rock and makes shawny head Degnan cry !! …. Epic man !
        How have you been old friend ? The times we ha together are the best ever had;)
        To this day I always tell everyone about the amazing times we had and the stories you would tell while we all were under the deck in the dark. Do you remember ?

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      2. Oh my GOD! Adam!! I can’t believe it is actually you!! I have tried to find you, your brother and Shawn on social media for years!! Would you believe that all three of you guys have somewhat common names? (I’m thinking “Huhn” is either German or Dutch?) How the heck are ya!! Of COURSE I remember telling ghost stories with you guys under the porch! It is one of the things that made me want to become a horror writer — I talked about it in one of the interviews I did after my novel was published!! I mentioned you guys in a recent blog post too: https://ericrobertnolan.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/this-makes-me-think-of-shawn-degnan-jason-huhn-and-adam-huhn-and-telling-ghost-stories-under-the-porch/

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  6. Well aren’t YOU adorable! It seems from the top o’ the page photo that you are a lover of my drug of choice as well (coffee, of course). I, too, have some Irish in my lineage, and am a displaced New Yorker (adoptee) who spent some time on the Virginia side the beltway. (“Shared custody” – lol.)

    From reading this About page, we seem to have more than a few elements in common, including the fact that we are BOTH awake and on the ‘net at going on 2:30 AM Eastern! So I have clicked to follow you (and not just because you followed me first, btw, but thanks for that).

    Congrats on publishing your novel – I LOVE the title! I shall put it on my lengthy reading list based on what little I’ve read of your phrasing and Kimi Small’s review snippet, plus the fact that your descriptions are “cinematographic.” My first career was acting/directing.

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    mgh
    (Madelyn Griffith-Haynie – ADDandSoMuchMore dot com)
    – ADD Coach Training Field founder; ADD Coaching co-founder –
    “It takes a village to educate a world!”

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  7. Hello, Eric! Thanks for following my blog. I hope you enjoy reading my posts. Your blog seems inetresting. I’ll make sure to have a look.

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