Hi! I'm Nori Rose (She/Her), and I Write Things.
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If you're reading this, it's probably because you want to learn more about who I am and what I can offer your small creative business. I'll get to that, but first, I want to get vulnerable for a second and share something that may give you a general idea of what kind of person I am, and whether we're a good fit to work together.
In 2019, at age 26, I was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder after a lifelong struggle with my mental health. As you can probably imagine, getting diagnosed with a chronic, highly stigmatized mental illness felt like getting hit square in the gut by an asteriod. (Basically, I felt like a dinosaur, and not in an all-powerful Jurassic Park kind of way.) After having a good cry (and baking + promptly devouring a giant plate of snickerdoodles) I decided that if I was going to live well with this disease, I had to get serious and extra-intentional about the kind of life I wanted to build for myself. That meant making the sometimes-scary choice to show up in the world in a way that reflected my deepest values: honesty, justice, and unapologetic creativity. Hence, this little copywriting operation was born. As someone who sits at the crossroads of several marginalized identities (while also holding several privileged ones), part of my purpose as a writer is to help other marginalized creative entreprenuers bring their own unique visions to life. In these strange and uncertain times we're upon, we need your work in the world more than ever. I would love nothing more than to help you spin your dreams into being. Who Specifically Can I Help?I provide copy and content writing services for entrepreneurs working to build creative businesses who are...
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Okay, now for the creds and such:
Nori Rose Hubert (she/her) is a professional copy and content writer specializing in helping creative entrepreneurs from marginalized backgrounds grow sustainable, heart-centered businesses. Prior to launching her freelance writing business, she held a number of different jobs that gave her a firm foundation in copywriting, including blogging for an HIV/AIDS nonprofit, creating promotional materials for the Liberal Arts: Humanities and Communications department at Austin Community College, managing the social media prescence of the Austin Transportation Department, crafting SEO web copy for a craft supply company, and writing concert and album reviews of independent and labled artists for a nonprofit music magazine (she even got to interview the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie). Nori is currently a monthly contributor to the Work and Bipolar or Depression column at HealthyPlace Mental Health, the largest consumer mental health website on the Internet, and writes about the (sadly) still-taboo topics of mental health, sexuality, harm reduction, and death on Medium.
In addition to running her freelance writing business, Nori is a published short story author, poet, and essayist. Much of her writing is informed by her lifelong love of folklore, faerie tales and mythology, as well as her various adventures as a bisexual, neurodivergent woman living in the American south. Her debut novel, The Dreaming Hour, is a twenty-first century magical realist reinterpretation of "Briar Rose/Sleeping Beauty" which concerns a young Queer woman recovering from sex trafficking and heroin addiction. The book is currently in the final stages of revision, with a goal of a set publishing date sometime in 2021. (Check back often for updates!). Her published works have appeared in The Rio Review, Feminine Inquiry, Musings of a #LonelyFeminist, Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Hothouse, Corvid Queen, Coffeetable Coven, The Elephant Ladder, Mookychick, The Freque, and the feminist anthology The Medusa Project. In April 2020 she co-founded Crown & Pen, an independent e-zine dedicated to sharing written and visual art works inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nori holds an Associate of Arts in Creative Writing from Austin Community College, where she graduated with honors and special recognition for her work as Editor-in-Chief for the student literary magazine The Rio Review, and a Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin. She received special honors for her undergraduate research thesis Reclaiming Eden: Life of Pi, Human-Animal Interdependency, and the Environmental Crisis, which is a fancy way of saying she spent a year writing 60 pages on why we should probably stop burning up the Earth with fossil fuels if we'd like to survive as a species. In 2016, she had the privilege of attending the Writers In New York summer intensive at New York University. She has also dedicated seveal years to teaching creative writing to Central Texas youth via the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave.
Nori is a lifelong, multigenerational Texan of Celtic, Germanic, and Scandanavian ancestry. She lives with her husband and a small menagerie of pets, and divides her time between Austin and Dallas (i.e., colonized Comanche, Tonkawa, Jumanos, Coahulitecan, Kiikaapoi, Tawakoni, and Wichita lands). When not working with clients or dreaming up new worlds, she enjoys collecting tattoos, baking with flowers, creating makeshift altars in the woods, cross-stitching, hexing the patriarchy, and bursting into song at random intervals. She belives in magic, the power of art to create lasting social change, and in you.
In addition to running her freelance writing business, Nori is a published short story author, poet, and essayist. Much of her writing is informed by her lifelong love of folklore, faerie tales and mythology, as well as her various adventures as a bisexual, neurodivergent woman living in the American south. Her debut novel, The Dreaming Hour, is a twenty-first century magical realist reinterpretation of "Briar Rose/Sleeping Beauty" which concerns a young Queer woman recovering from sex trafficking and heroin addiction. The book is currently in the final stages of revision, with a goal of a set publishing date sometime in 2021. (Check back often for updates!). Her published works have appeared in The Rio Review, Feminine Inquiry, Musings of a #LonelyFeminist, Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Hothouse, Corvid Queen, Coffeetable Coven, The Elephant Ladder, Mookychick, The Freque, and the feminist anthology The Medusa Project. In April 2020 she co-founded Crown & Pen, an independent e-zine dedicated to sharing written and visual art works inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nori holds an Associate of Arts in Creative Writing from Austin Community College, where she graduated with honors and special recognition for her work as Editor-in-Chief for the student literary magazine The Rio Review, and a Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin. She received special honors for her undergraduate research thesis Reclaiming Eden: Life of Pi, Human-Animal Interdependency, and the Environmental Crisis, which is a fancy way of saying she spent a year writing 60 pages on why we should probably stop burning up the Earth with fossil fuels if we'd like to survive as a species. In 2016, she had the privilege of attending the Writers In New York summer intensive at New York University. She has also dedicated seveal years to teaching creative writing to Central Texas youth via the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave.
Nori is a lifelong, multigenerational Texan of Celtic, Germanic, and Scandanavian ancestry. She lives with her husband and a small menagerie of pets, and divides her time between Austin and Dallas (i.e., colonized Comanche, Tonkawa, Jumanos, Coahulitecan, Kiikaapoi, Tawakoni, and Wichita lands). When not working with clients or dreaming up new worlds, she enjoys collecting tattoos, baking with flowers, creating makeshift altars in the woods, cross-stitching, hexing the patriarchy, and bursting into song at random intervals. She belives in magic, the power of art to create lasting social change, and in you.
