Elisabeth is a writer currently based in London and originally from Florida. She has worked as an editor for The Streetcar, a creative arts journal based in Starkville, Mississippi, and as an editor and Editor in Chief for The Wells Street Journal, a literary journal based in the heart of London.
Along with a bachelor's degree in Literature and a master's degree in Professional Writing, she has experience writing and editing short stories, personal essays, creative and academic nonfiction, screenplays, as well as having many years of experience helping her friends draft emails and texts they're too nervous to write on their own.
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She loves to read books, have long phone calls with her friends and family back home, bartend, watch films with her boyfriend, drink coffee, travel with her friends, and sit in the sun as much as London allows it.
PUBLICATIONS/WORKS IN PROGRESS
Elisabeth has recently completed a collection of creative nonfiction essays that examine men and masculinity across all genders; she is looking to publish the collection in 2025.
She is also looking for a director interested in directing her short film about a young woman who gets trapped in the women's toilet at a club.
She is currently working on a novella and generally documenting the survival of her early twenties. ​
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Published Works:
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If I Have A Buzzcut, Am I Still A Woman? | Coffee and Cigarettes Magazine | Creative Nonfiction | 2025
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Final Frame | The Wells Street Journal, Issue 22 | Creative Nonfiction | 2025
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Interviews on AI | Destigmatising AI | Article | 2024
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Two Dead Men Speaking | The Wells Street Journal, Issue 21 | Short Story | 2024
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Select works available here.
ABOUT - ISH
(why I write)
Writing is the souls' way of speaking; we learn about the world,
others, and ourselves in the process. Every word we speak carries such intention, such power; words should be spoken, written, and created for people, with people in mind. For life, for art, for creation and originality and for the sake of making the world feel a little less lonely. A little more like home.
I write about people, what-ifs, and harsh realities. I love exploring the relationships between people and how that affects the world around us. In a world where we all often feel quite alone, I find that writing is one of the only ways I know how to express myself, and one of the only ways to help others do the same.
I enjoy overthinking, turning things over and over again in my mind until I have squeezed every last thing out of them, like wringing out a soaking wet towel after a swim in July. This is how I understand people, experiences, circumstances -- everything.
My stories may not always be objectively true -- but they are truer, often, than reality. Words have a funny way of doing that -- "giving a form to formless things."
For a full CV, inquiries, or a chat about stories of all kinds ,
elisabethconnell2@gmail.com // 07444 788162
