Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan’s award-nominated writing has appeared throughout 70 periodicals in 12 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. These periodicals 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 Eunoia Review, The Galway Review, Every Day Fiction and Quail Bell Magazine.

Eric’s writing and photography were also included in 45 anthologies, six novelty mini-books, three chapbooks and a poetry datebook. (His love poem, “The Beach House, Early Spring,” distinguished him as one of only eight poets worldwide selected for The Galway Review 12, the esteemed Irish journal’s 2024 poetry anthology.) The Chinese Poetry Association has regularly translated his work for the global readership of its Poetry Hall quarterly bilingual journal. His 2013 novel The Dogs Don’t Bark in Brooklyn Any More was published by Dagda Publishing in Britain. In 2025, Cooch Behar Magazine in India invited him to co-author a poetry anthology with Editor Sourav Sarkar.

Eric’s more than a half-dozen award nominations include a 2018 nod for Sundress Best of the Net.  Every Writer’s Resource named his poem “The Writer” as one of EWR’s Best of 2019.  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. 

Eric is a past editor for the British and American science fiction journal, The Bees Are Dead.  He has been interviewed on Blog Talk Radio, and by Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, Bunbury Magazine, Spillwords Press and Indie Writers’ Digest.  His poetry was featured periodically on the Dead Letter Radio podcast.  He was entered in 2022 into America’s Poets & Writers Directory.