NEW BOOK… “Finding Home: A Memoir”

NEW BOOK… “Finding Home: A Memoir”

I’m happy to announce that my promised memoir is coming this November! From the Amazon.com description of the book: Finding Home: A Memoir Hardcover – November 4, 2025 by Denise Nicholas (Author) A poignant, revelatory memoir from acclaimed novelist and actor...
A Gathering of Voices: Stories from The Longwood Writers Workshop

A Gathering of Voices: Stories from The Longwood Writers Workshop

Originally published on Valentine’s Day of 2024, A Gathering of Voices is a: vibrant anthology featuring personal, introspective, and lyrical stories from a seasoned group of six diverse writers. Their storytelling unfolds with grace, humor, and universal truths. The...
Introducing The Longwood Writers Workshop

Introducing The Longwood Writers Workshop

When you carry a dream around as long as I carried the Freshwater dream and it finally comes true, you may suffer with a bout of the big head. The long hours, the sweat and pain of doing the work disappears. You forget what it took to get you there because it’s so...
Chicago Winter (poem)

Chicago Winter (poem)

Whisper winter’s silence all still but the empty cold waves enticing me to roll along the tumbling shore. Shadows of a rusty kneed laughing boy who has long since relinquished his dreams of summer joy. I stand where he played. As close as my feet shoed, stockinged...
10th Annual ‘Fall Into Fiction’ EXTRAVAGANZA

10th Annual ‘Fall Into Fiction’ EXTRAVAGANZA

United California African-American Bookclubs 10th Annual ‘Fall Into Fiction’ EXTRAVAGANZA Sept. 22-25, 2016 @ DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton, 2 Civic Plaza Drive, Carson, CA 90745 Featured acclaimed authors includes Denise Nicholas