NancyBell.bsky.social
@nancybell.bsky.social
Writer. Performer. Director. Professor of Theatre.
Words in/forthcoming: StoryQuarterly, Terrain, Shenandoah, Flyway Journal
Words in/forthcoming: StoryQuarterly, Terrain, Shenandoah, Flyway Journal
Wow. I loved this. @terrainorg.bsky.social
A Community of Trees - Terrain.org
"A Community of Trees" is an excerpt of Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling, by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder.
www.terrain.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Wow. I loved this. @terrainorg.bsky.social
Thank you, New York, Brave City of Light.
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thank you, New York, Brave City of Light.
Well this little zine really delivers! Thanks @artbrister.bsky.social !
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Well this little zine really delivers! Thanks @artbrister.bsky.social !
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“She imagined Michael reading this letter on his cot in Vietnam, under a sweltering tent full of other men reading letters.”
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“She imagined Michael reading this letter on his cot in Vietnam, under a sweltering tent full of other men reading letters.”
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
—Mary Miller tells a story of a girl who discovers a series of letters between her uncle, who died in Vietnam, and his lover.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/E3UPQ
@mydangblog.bsky.social Thank you for publishing my little fairy tale today, and for making Dark Winter Literary, a cool as-hell indie Canadian press and lit mag.
www.darkwinterlit.com/literary-mag...
www.darkwinterlit.com/literary-mag...
Stories | DarkWinter Literary Magazine
At DarkWinter Literary Magazine, you'll find free, online short fiction stories and poetry. We upload new stories on a weekly basis.
www.darkwinterlit.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@mydangblog.bsky.social Thank you for publishing my little fairy tale today, and for making Dark Winter Literary, a cool as-hell indie Canadian press and lit mag.
www.darkwinterlit.com/literary-mag...
www.darkwinterlit.com/literary-mag...
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Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”
Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.
Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.
October 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”
Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.
Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.
I’m with Ta-Nehisi.
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’m with Ta-Nehisi.
I might spend the rest of my life looking for a book as good as this.
July 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I might spend the rest of my life looking for a book as good as this.
Yes. Of course we are. Stupid question. Yes.
After years of progress in diversity, many New York theatre companies’ upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. Are we seeing a reflection of the country’s increasingly misogynist politics?
Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight
After years of progress in diversity, many companies’ upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. The backslide has prompted an outcry.
www.newyorker.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Yes. Of course we are. Stupid question. Yes.
Powerful and necessary nonfiction from @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Powerful and necessary nonfiction from @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social
When storms come for your trees and war comes for everything else.
Excerpt of "Storm Damage" by Anne Marie Todkill | The Fiddlehead
Winner of the 2023 Creative Nonfiction Prize
thefiddlehead.ca
July 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
When storms come for your trees and war comes for everything else.
V (formerly Eve Ensler) drawing inspiration from, among other things, community response to tornado in STL.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
How do we resist and rise? We have to believe the impossible is possible | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)
Every action matters now. Every effort small or large counts. And moving, movement is the essential key to dispelling despair
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
V (formerly Eve Ensler) drawing inspiration from, among other things, community response to tornado in STL.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
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Just spotted this slow worm weaving its way through my garden #reptiles #herpetology #nature 🧪 🐸🦎
youtube.com/shorts/nc0IM...
youtube.com/shorts/nc0IM...
A slow worm (Anguis fragilis) sliding through my unkempt lawn #reptiles #herpetology
YouTube video by Chris Simms
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June 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just spotted this slow worm weaving its way through my garden #reptiles #herpetology #nature 🧪 🐸🦎
youtube.com/shorts/nc0IM...
youtube.com/shorts/nc0IM...
Splendid.
Your ice creche. Your infinity pool of the woods.
Your gnawing that forks panic through the sap.
Your assault on the vertical.
from ‘A Rewilding’, a poem by Paul Farley:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Your gnawing that forks panic through the sap.
Your assault on the vertical.
from ‘A Rewilding’, a poem by Paul Farley:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Farley · Poem: ‘A Rewilding’
www.lrb.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Splendid.
Loved hearing Beth Bombara and Sam Golden play this tonight. Love you, Beth!❤️🐈⬛
Carry the Weight
Beth Bombara · It All Goes Up · Song · 2023
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June 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Loved hearing Beth Bombara and Sam Golden play this tonight. Love you, Beth!❤️🐈⬛
This essay on art, a teacher of art, and his students of art moved me immensely.
"I wanted them, in this sound, to imagine a world in which men raised their voices for good"
tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/d...
Mark Mazullo is Professor of Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he has been teaching piano and courses in the history of music since 1999.
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Mark Mazullo is Professor of Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he has been teaching piano and courses in the history of music since 1999.
Daddy Baritone - Tahoma Literary Review
As the baritone sang, I scanned my students’ faces, seeking confirmation that his artistry—the mighty vulnerability of his tone, the canary light he casts
tahomaliteraryreview.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This essay on art, a teacher of art, and his students of art moved me immensely.
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I no longer believe art can save the world, but I believe still that it can save me. So in the face of chaos, misinformation, hatred & ignorance, I'm going to make more art, experience more, share more, pay for more & publish more. I started this in darkness & it'll continue to be my light. 🖤🤍
January 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I no longer believe art can save the world, but I believe still that it can save me. So in the face of chaos, misinformation, hatred & ignorance, I'm going to make more art, experience more, share more, pay for more & publish more. I started this in darkness & it'll continue to be my light. 🖤🤍
Grave goals.
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Grave goals.
I'm attending The People's Response's event, “The Ville Onsite Support” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesrespo...
The Ville Onsite Support · The People's Response
Support The People's Response to disaster needs across St. Louis by volunteering with us at the O'Fallon Park Recreation Complex. Sign up for one or more shifts to help us get essential supplies to ne...
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May 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm attending The People's Response's event, “The Ville Onsite Support” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesrespo...
This story by Allegra Hyde rewrote me. Read it! @bombmag.bsky.social
BOMB Magazine | The Future Is a Click Away
In this Pushcart Prize winning story, an all powerful algorithm delivers more than its users ever asked for.
bombmagazine.org
May 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This story by Allegra Hyde rewrote me. Read it! @bombmag.bsky.social
Love this.
May 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Love this.
So proud to have my fiction debut up TODAY @storyquarterly.bsky.social ! Thank you, Paul and Stephanie.
May 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So proud to have my fiction debut up TODAY @storyquarterly.bsky.social ! Thank you, Paul and Stephanie.
Here is new wonderful non-fiction from my beloved teacher, @eafentress.bsky.social ! Beautiful work, Ellen!
Her eyes, my ambition Thank you @salvationsouth.com & @chuckreece.bsky.social
@eafentress.bsky.social took what, in most writers’ hands, would have been a reflection on an artist’s career and turned it into inspiration for anyone in midlife who is driven to create. Proud to publish this in @salvationsouth.com.
May 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Here is new wonderful non-fiction from my beloved teacher, @eafentress.bsky.social ! Beautiful work, Ellen!
My god, this is interesting.
Wild Culture: Helena Feder holds a fascinating conversation with Canadian whale scientist Hal Whitehead.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/hal-whitehead/
#interview #whales #culture #marinebiology #science #scientist #scientistprofile #canada
https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/hal-whitehead/
#interview #whales #culture #marinebiology #science #scientist #scientistprofile #canada
Wild Culture: A Conversation with Hal Whitehead - Terrain.org
Wild Culture: Helena Feder holds a fascinating conversation with Canadian whale scientist Hal Whitehead.
www.terrain.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My god, this is interesting.