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Sandy Nietling
@sandynietling.bsky.social
Winner of the First Pages Prize for fiction. First Runner Up, James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Currently longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project. Pushcart Prize nominee.
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A whitetail doe wandering through the backyard.

#snow #nature #michigan #winter
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Join us as we shout out the Finalists of the 2025 Literary Awards Program pt 2: Sandy Nietling, Anna Dickson James, Jennifer Love, @cdiacono.bsky.social, @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social, Joseph O’Donnell, Amanda Holmes, Jeanne Gassman, Joe Oestreich, & Scott Lane! buff.ly/W9BV5sP
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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We're thrilled to share that the Long List for the 2025 Literary Awards Program is now live! buff.ly/W9BV5sP
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Amazed and grateful to learn that my manuscript has been selected for the Santa Fe Writers Project long list. I'm honored to be included with these authors! Thank you, @sfwp.bsky.social!

The full long list is here: www.sfwp.com/2025-awards-...
2025 Awards Program Results — Santa Fe Writers Project
www.sfwp.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Even in the rain the sassafras look like they're creating light
#autumn #leaves #sassafras #fallcolor
October 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Watching the rain coming in from a rooftop restaurant in Birmingham

#photography #clouds #sky #nature
August 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thrilled to be the first runner-up of the James Jones First Novel Fellowship! Set in the 1920s, BLACK RIVER is the rustic noir story of a woman searching for her missing, possibly murderous husband.
jamesjonesliterarysociety.org/2025/07/27/2...
2025 winners of JJFNF selected
The James Jones First Novel Fellowship has selected Emma Binder from Wisconsin, as the 2025 Fellow for their novel, Small Heaven. The first runner-up is Sandy Nietling of West Michigan for her…
jamesjonesliterarysociety.org
August 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ruby-throated hummingbird visiting catmint. #Hummingbird #birds #birdwatching #nature
July 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Volunteer foxgloves behind the house. I couldn't have grown them if I tried.
#foxglove #bloomscrolling #juneblooms
June 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Happy bees and wild lupine.

#wildflowers #bee #nature #lupine #wildbluelupine
May 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Found a pileated woodpecker's wing feather on my morning walk.

#birds #woodpecker #pileatedwoodpecker ##birdwatching #nature
May 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My husband started a Go Fund Me to help Lois replace her damaged windows. Unfortunate how all the powers that be claim to be helpless while her neighbor detonates explosives on a daily basis #fundraiser
gofund.me/df2a8751
April 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Most of the crocuses were snipped by the deer, but there's still a little April color
#Flowers #Spring #Crocus #Deer
April 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
March 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A female white-breasted nuthatch. Most of my nuthatch pics are a blur, but this one held still just long enough.
#birds #birdwatching #nature
March 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Bluejays with breakfast
#birds #birdwatching #nature
February 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I wanted to save them for an upcoming flight, but I think I'm going to crack.

#writing #reading #books #authors #booksky #bookclub
February 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I'm sorry but they're gutting the Dept of Education, rolling out plans for mass deportations--including sending migrants to Guantanamo--dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the NLRB, and the Atlantic's first issue of the Trump era is "How Progressives Froze the American Dream"?
February 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A dark-eyed junco keeping a lookout
#birds #birdwatching #nature
February 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Winter sunrise
January 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tufted titmouse up close with a chickadee shadow
#birds #birdwatching #nature
January 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
January 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A northern flicker up close
#birds #birdwatching #nature
January 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Chickadees are the friendliest birds in my backyard.
#birds #birdwatching #nature
December 28, 2024 at 12:17 PM