Nancy Jorgensen
@nancyjorgensen.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer navigating education, music, family, and sport.
Mother to Olympic Champion Gwen Jorgensen & teacher/author Elizabeth Jorgensen.
My work ⤵
https://nancyjorgensen.weebly.com
Mother to Olympic Champion Gwen Jorgensen & teacher/author Elizabeth Jorgensen.
My work ⤵
https://nancyjorgensen.weebly.com
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Domestique — The Under Review
Domestique French, noun. Servant. Help.
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Happy to announce my essay "Domestique" is nominated for @pushcartprize.bsky.social.
Thank you to the UnderReview for the nomination.
Thank you to Gwen Jorgensen for great subject matter.
Thank you to Elizabeth Jorgensen for edits!
www.underreviewlit.com/issue-10-sum...
Thank you to the UnderReview for the nomination.
Thank you to Gwen Jorgensen for great subject matter.
Thank you to Elizabeth Jorgensen for edits!
www.underreviewlit.com/issue-10-sum...
I am honored that Wisconsin Life at WPR chose my story for this year's animation project. It's been almost a year in the making, and their work is magnificent. Thank you to the entire team!
wisconsinlife.org/story/little...
wisconsinlife.org/story/little...
Little known truths about lilies of the valley - Wisconsin Life
Lilies of the valley are often considered a beautiful, yet high-maintenance plant. For writer Nancy Jorgensen, they will forever connect her to her beloved grandmother, who found virtue in caring for ...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I am honored that Wisconsin Life at WPR chose my story for this year's animation project. It's been almost a year in the making, and their work is magnificent. Thank you to the entire team!
wisconsinlife.org/story/little...
wisconsinlife.org/story/little...
A sneak peek at the animation to be released later this month for one of my essays at Wisconsin Public Radio.
New season of ‘Wisconsin Life’ gets animated – read a Q&A with author Nancy Jorgensen - PBS Wisconsin
The new season of Wisconsin Life features an animated version of an essay written by Nancy Jorgensen, “Little Known Truths...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A sneak peek at the animation to be released later this month for one of my essays at Wisconsin Public Radio.
2025 International Sijo Competition – Submissions open
No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Resources:
- how to write sijo: www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/curr...
Submit sijo using this online form:
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No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Resources:
- how to write sijo: www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/curr...
Submit sijo using this online form:
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August 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
2025 International Sijo Competition – Submissions open
No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Resources:
- how to write sijo: www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/curr...
Submit sijo using this online form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Resources:
- how to write sijo: www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/curr...
Submit sijo using this online form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Love the Wisconsin Life underscore on my essay! Thank you
Wisconsin Public Radio!
@maureenmccollum.bsky.social
Wisconsin Public Radio!
@maureenmccollum.bsky.social
Pub, players and pints: Dropping in for an Irish music session in Waukesha - Wisconsin Life
Irish music sessions regularly pop up in pubs and restaurants across Wisconsin. These are generally informal gatherings, where tin whistlers, fiddlers and accordionists play traditional Irish tunes. W...
wisconsinlife.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Love the Wisconsin Life underscore on my essay! Thank you
Wisconsin Public Radio!
@maureenmccollum.bsky.social
Wisconsin Public Radio!
@maureenmccollum.bsky.social
My latest @huffpost.com essay. Thank you @noahmichelson.bsky.social .
www.huffpost.com/entry/rio-ol...
www.huffpost.com/entry/rio-ol...
I Was Shocked When My Daughter Wanted To Compete In The Olympics. What Happened Next Was Even More Stunning.
“The perils of competition — choppy water, a pile-up on the bike course, hazardous heat — scared me.”
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May 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My latest @huffpost.com essay. Thank you @noahmichelson.bsky.social .
www.huffpost.com/entry/rio-ol...
www.huffpost.com/entry/rio-ol...
Sijo Poetry Summit 2025
June 27-28
In-person and Zoom
FREE to attend
More information and full schedule here:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijo/sijo_su...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
June 27-28
In-person and Zoom
FREE to attend
More information and full schedule here:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijo/sijo_su...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Sijo Poetry Summit 2025
June 27-28
In-person and Zoom
FREE to attend
More information and full schedule here:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijo/sijo_su...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
June 27-28
In-person and Zoom
FREE to attend
More information and full schedule here:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijo/sijo_su...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
My latest essay on Wisconsin Life at WPR. Print version as well as my recording are posted.
Elizabeth, Elizabeth and Me: The 'rebel trio' of Wisconsin educators - Wisconsin Life
Some professions run in the family. For writer Nancy Jorgensen of Waukesha, she spent her career as a teacher — just like her aunt and her daughter. She explores their vocations in this essay, “Rebel ...
wisconsinlife.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My latest essay on Wisconsin Life at WPR. Print version as well as my recording are posted.
2025 International Sijo Competition – Submissions open
No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form organized by line and syllable count.
Submit sijo using this online form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form organized by line and syllable count.
Submit sijo using this online form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
2025 International Sijo Competition – Submissions open
No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form organized by line and syllable count.
Submit sijo using this online form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
No entry fee
Prize money $500/$250/$100
Sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form organized by line and syllable count.
Submit sijo using this online form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Nancy Jorgensen
If you love your library, listen up…
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you love your library, listen up…
Reposted by Nancy Jorgensen
"A few years after my wrestling days, students started calling me Nancy Pants."
A hilarious and touching journey through the monikers of the inimitable @nancyjorgensen.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/nancy-jo...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A hilarious and touching journey through the monikers of the inimitable @nancyjorgensen.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/nancy-jo...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"A few years after my wrestling days, students started calling me Nancy Pants."
A hilarious and touching journey through the monikers of the inimitable @nancyjorgensen.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/nancy-jo...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
A hilarious and touching journey through the monikers of the inimitable @nancyjorgensen.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/nancy-jo...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
In which I reveal my wrestling name.
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social
#essay #creativenonfiction #hermitcrab
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#essay #creativenonfiction #hermitcrab
Nancy Jorgensen — Does It Have Pockets
Alias Disclosure Please note: By responding to this questionnaire, you consent to publication and understand this information could limit or extend boundaries of self-image, professional advan...
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March 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In which I reveal my wrestling name.
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social
#essay #creativenonfiction #hermitcrab
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social
#essay #creativenonfiction #hermitcrab
My essay "A Short History of Shattered Molds" is free to read here:
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Elizabeth Jorgensen, you're in it.
Gwen Jorgensen, you, Stanley, and George are too.https://sblaam.com/issues/#flipbook-1356/45/
sblaam.com/issues/#flip...
Elizabeth Jorgensen, you're in it.
Gwen Jorgensen, you, Stanley, and George are too.https://sblaam.com/issues/#flipbook-1356/45/
February 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My essay "A Short History of Shattered Molds" is free to read here:
sblaam.com/issues/#flip...
Elizabeth Jorgensen, you're in it.
Gwen Jorgensen, you, Stanley, and George are too.https://sblaam.com/issues/#flipbook-1356/45/
sblaam.com/issues/#flip...
Elizabeth Jorgensen, you're in it.
Gwen Jorgensen, you, Stanley, and George are too.https://sblaam.com/issues/#flipbook-1356/45/
My Huffington Post essay published today. @huffpost.com Thank you editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social
My Husband's Medical Team Was Failing Him. Then A Stranger Stepped In And Said 6 Words That Saved His Life.
"At a time when the universe had robbed me — of my husband’s health and companionship, of security, contentment and peace of mind — she offered me a gift."
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February 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My Huffington Post essay published today. @huffpost.com Thank you editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social
February Sijo Challenge
Multiple winners earn gift cards.
Details here:
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Multiple winners earn gift cards.
Details here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFnxoNjxp5...
February 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
February Sijo Challenge
Multiple winners earn gift cards.
Details here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFnxoNjxp5...
Multiple winners earn gift cards.
Details here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFnxoNjxp5...
Thank you to Chaotic Merge Magazine for publishing this hermit crab essay. "Tragedies and Disappointments of a Happy Youth." PAGE 7 at the link.
Issue 8
This issue includes works by the following contributors: Fiction by Logan Markko, Franz Jørgen Neumann, Adina Polatsek, Audrey-Anna Gamache, and Kevin B. Nonfiction by Blair Kinsey, Elana Walters, N.L...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thank you to Chaotic Merge Magazine for publishing this hermit crab essay. "Tragedies and Disappointments of a Happy Youth." PAGE 7 at the link.
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐣𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲: 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 7
Special opportunity for HONORARIUM
More information:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijoday/
Special opportunity for HONORARIUM
More information:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijoday/
January 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐣𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲: 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 7
Special opportunity for HONORARIUM
More information:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijoday/
Special opportunity for HONORARIUM
More information:
www.sejongculturalsociety.org/sijoday/
My latest essay is free to read at Voices and Visions Journal.
Many thanks to the journal and to my editor Elizabeth Jorgensen.
Many thanks to the journal and to my editor Elizabeth Jorgensen.
Uncle Al’s Compendium for Creativity
By Nancy Jorgensen Alverno College HAVEN Tony, Wisconsin, is so tiny mapmakers pretend it doesn’t exist. But within its two square miles—population 160—lived a writer. My nana’s b…
voicesandvisionsjournal.wordpress.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My latest essay is free to read at Voices and Visions Journal.
Many thanks to the journal and to my editor Elizabeth Jorgensen.
Many thanks to the journal and to my editor Elizabeth Jorgensen.
For more information, visit the Sejong Cultural Society website:
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January 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Sharing my essay "Grand Obsessions" published today at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. All about pianos, Cheerios, sports, etc.
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Creative Nonfiction: Grand Obsessions by Nancy Jorgensen
First, my right hand settled on the brown-stained keys. The chip on middle C scraped my thumb, telling me I found the right spot. My left thumb rested next to it, but my ring finger refused to lie …
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December 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Sharing my essay "Grand Obsessions" published today at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. All about pianos, Cheerios, sports, etc.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/c...
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/c...