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Renée K. Nicholson

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Love Prince & dogs & dancers & cover songs & champagne & Vermeer. Books: @WVUPRESS, @UnivNebPress, Urban Farmhouse Press, Wild Ink. Series editor, Connective Tissue. Contributing writer: https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/. Partner: Healthcare Is Human.

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 26

Navy blue ink is changing my life for the better.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 25

Wanted to share this essay by Chris Campanioni , which is so much about writing--as vocation, as process, as way of being in the world: theoffingmag.com/essay/the-sp...

#writingcommunity #essay #writinglife

The Spell of Exile - The Offing

Essay - The Offing Magazine

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 22

Am I taking a course through the comité champagne as research for a new novel? 😉

#writinglife #writingresearch #champagne #novel #WIP

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is such a cute and clever way to promote a book!

Sticker of a cat reading a book, with a retro vibe. The book is Mo Daviau's new novel, EPIC & LOVELY

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 18

Love this--and also, "Sour Apple & Pink Shadow sounds like a great title for a book!

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 18

Vintage lion pin for a little something extra today. #vintagefinds #vintagefall #vintage2025

Small pin of a gold lion on a peter pan collar

Close up of vintage gold cute lion pin, with sparkly red eyes.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 17

I like to think Robert Redford and Paul Newman make new movies together in the great beyond.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 14

New on substack! #poetry

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I'd like to Comment... on MOONFLOWER by Phillip Shabazz

“Language is a saint suffering thorns

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 14

Welcome to #vintagefall

Out last night & got to dress up, with a little nod to the 80s (cue teenage me). The shoes I bought second hand with the tags still on, & the bracelet, that sparkly magenta pink, I picked up somewhere...

#vintage #wintagefashion #vintagefall #vintagestyle #fall2025

Multicolored shoes next to a sparkly magenta bracelet

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Blackwater River, which is a tributary (I think) of the Cheat River in West Virginia. Blackwater Falls State Park was the first I can remember going to as a kid and still a favorite.

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 14

A fabulous French dinner at Modern Homestead with a wonderful bottle of bubbles.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm pretty sure this is going to be a vintage vibe kind of autumn.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Such a terrific resource. Has really helped me in revising draft to draft. Hope for many more reprints! Cheers!

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm rereading A PRIMER FOR POETS AND READERS OF POETRY and it's amazing how much of this feels new again to me, even as it isn't new (beginners mind plus our human frailty of forgetting). Maybe the pleasure of poetry is that you can learn and even excel at it without full mastery. #poetry

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 8

My friend, the artist Sally Jane Brown posted this article to LinkedIn, and the idea of enslurrification of culture felt important enough to also post here: news.artnet.com/art-world/sl...

#art #culture #writing #criticism

The Great Enslurrification of Culture | Artnet News

Everything is being forced into multimedia form, and that's resulting in a new kind of bad online content. Let's call it slurry.

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Butterfly take me away.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 5

You choose the song.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Quaint. And yes I miss the landline.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you so much, Melissa!

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Latest substack is about book criticism and literary culture, in the wake of the AP suspending book review coverage.

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#bookcriticism #bookreviews #authorlife #literarycommunity

I'd like to comment... On Book Reviews and Literary Culture

There has already been much said about the Associated Press pulling out of book reviews, like many other outlets before them.

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's Labor Day and the pub day for THE BOOK OF JOBS, an anthology of poetry edited by Erin Murphy: www.psu.edu/news/altoona...

And check out my poem, "Curtain Call" in it at oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...

#poetry #jobs #laborday

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Aug 10

Light & shadow, evening, August

A porch with light and shadows across it.

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Passing along this opportunity. #writingcommunity

Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 4

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Weekend trips are awesome! Monday after weekend trips are full of coffee...

Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · Aug 3

New substack about my very lit weekend...

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I'd like to comment...on the Lewisburg Literary Festival

July Update (Better Late Than Never!)

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