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...
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...
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...
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...
The alumna’s early involvement in the civil rights movement in the South led to a long career as an actress and eventually a writer. The 10th anniversary edition of her civil rights novel Freshwater Road comes out in April. By Laura Paisley – March 25, 2016...
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