Renée K. Nicholson
@reneeknicholson.bsky.social
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.
Calling all Health Humanities & Narrative Medicine scholars and book reviewers! I'm excited to announce that advance e-ARCs of DIZZY, a memoir by Rachel Weaver, are now available for pre-publication review. If you're interested in receiving an advance copy for review, please reach out. #bookreview
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Calling all Health Humanities & Narrative Medicine scholars and book reviewers! I'm excited to announce that advance e-ARCs of DIZZY, a memoir by Rachel Weaver, are now available for pre-publication review. If you're interested in receiving an advance copy for review, please reach out. #bookreview
8-hour drive home from a writing retreat = 8 more hours of creative work.
The mountains, the silence, the movement—sometimes the best writing happens when you're not actually writing.
Find those in-between moments. They matter.
#WritingLife #CreativeProcess
The mountains, the silence, the movement—sometimes the best writing happens when you're not actually writing.
Find those in-between moments. They matter.
#WritingLife #CreativeProcess
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
8-hour drive home from a writing retreat = 8 more hours of creative work.
The mountains, the silence, the movement—sometimes the best writing happens when you're not actually writing.
Find those in-between moments. They matter.
#WritingLife #CreativeProcess
The mountains, the silence, the movement—sometimes the best writing happens when you're not actually writing.
Find those in-between moments. They matter.
#WritingLife #CreativeProcess
Navy blue ink is changing my life for the better.
September 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Navy blue ink is changing my life for the better.
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
#writingcommunity #essay #writinglife
The Spell of Exile - The Offing
Essay - The Offing Magazine
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September 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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
#writingcommunity #essay #writinglife
Am I taking a course through the comité champagne as research for a new novel? 😉
#writinglife #writingresearch #champagne #novel #WIP
#writinglife #writingresearch #champagne #novel #WIP
September 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Am I taking a course through the comité champagne as research for a new novel? 😉
#writinglife #writingresearch #champagne #novel #WIP
#writinglife #writingresearch #champagne #novel #WIP
This is such a cute and clever way to promote a book!
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is such a cute and clever way to promote a book!
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I like to think Robert Redford and Paul Newman make new movies together in the great beyond.
September 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I like to think Robert Redford and Paul Newman make new movies together in the great beyond.
I'd like to Comment... on MOONFLOWER by Phillip Shabazz
“Language is a saint suffering thorns
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September 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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
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
September 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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
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
A fabulous French dinner at Modern Homestead with a wonderful bottle of bubbles.
September 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A fabulous French dinner at Modern Homestead with a wonderful bottle of bubbles.
I'm pretty sure this is going to be a vintage vibe kind of autumn.
September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm pretty sure this is going to be a vintage vibe kind of autumn.
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
September 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
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
#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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September 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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
#art #culture #writing #criticism
Butterfly take me away.
September 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Butterfly take me away.
You choose the song.
September 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
You choose the song.
Quaint. And yes I miss the landline.
September 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Quaint. And yes I miss the landline.
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
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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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September 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Latest substack is about book criticism and literary culture, in the wake of the AP suspending book review coverage.
open.substack.com/pub/reneekni...
#bookcriticism #bookreviews #authorlife #literarycommunity
open.substack.com/pub/reneekni...
#bookcriticism #bookreviews #authorlife #literarycommunity
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
And check out my poem, "Curtain Call" in it at oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...
#poetry #jobs #laborday
September 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
And check out my poem, "Curtain Call" in it at oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-...
#poetry #jobs #laborday
Light & shadow, evening, August
August 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Light & shadow, evening, August
Passing along this opportunity. #writingcommunity
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
August 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Passing along this opportunity. #writingcommunity
Weekend trips are awesome! Monday after weekend trips are full of coffee...
August 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Weekend trips are awesome! Monday after weekend trips are full of coffee...
The heat and humidity. Ugh.
July 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The heat and humidity. Ugh.