Sandy Nietling
@sandynietling.bsky.social
First Runner Up, James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Winner of the First Pages Prize for fiction. Pushcart Prize nominee. Reading for FracturedLit.
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Even in the rain the sassafras look like they're creating light
#autumn #leaves #sassafras #fallcolor
#autumn #leaves #sassafras #fallcolor
October 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Even in the rain the sassafras look like they're creating light
#autumn #leaves #sassafras #fallcolor
#autumn #leaves #sassafras #fallcolor
Watching the rain coming in from a rooftop restaurant in Birmingham
#photography #clouds #sky #nature
#photography #clouds #sky #nature
August 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Watching the rain coming in from a rooftop restaurant in Birmingham
#photography #clouds #sky #nature
#photography #clouds #sky #nature
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.
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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…
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August 2, 2025 at 12:19 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...
jamesjonesliterarysociety.org/2025/07/27/2...
July 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Volunteer foxgloves behind the house. I couldn't have grown them if I tried.
#foxglove #bloomscrolling #juneblooms
#foxglove #bloomscrolling #juneblooms
June 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Volunteer foxgloves behind the house. I couldn't have grown them if I tried.
#foxglove #bloomscrolling #juneblooms
#foxglove #bloomscrolling #juneblooms
May 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Found a pileated woodpecker's wing feather on my morning walk.
#birds #woodpecker #pileatedwoodpecker ##birdwatching #nature
#birds #woodpecker #pileatedwoodpecker ##birdwatching #nature
May 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Found a pileated woodpecker's wing feather on my morning walk.
#birds #woodpecker #pileatedwoodpecker ##birdwatching #nature
#birds #woodpecker #pileatedwoodpecker ##birdwatching #nature
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
gofund.me/df2a8751
April 16, 2025 at 8:02 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
gofund.me/df2a8751
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
#birds #birdwatching #nature
March 2, 2025 at 3:17 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
#birds #birdwatching #nature
February 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Reposted by Sandy Nietling
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
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 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Sandy Nietling
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
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 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
January 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
January 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
December 28, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Thank you to the editors at Blackbird for this Pushcart Prize nomination, and congratulations to my fellow Blackbird nominees!
blackbird.vcu.edu/youre-the-ne...
#PushcartPrize #Pushcart #fiction #writing #writingcommunity
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#PushcartPrize #Pushcart #fiction #writing #writingcommunity
December 20, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Thank you to the editors at Blackbird for this Pushcart Prize nomination, and congratulations to my fellow Blackbird nominees!
blackbird.vcu.edu/youre-the-ne...
#PushcartPrize #Pushcart #fiction #writing #writingcommunity
blackbird.vcu.edu/youre-the-ne...
#PushcartPrize #Pushcart #fiction #writing #writingcommunity
December 14, 2024 at 12:21 PM
I love truth in naming. Please meet the red-bellied woodpecker.
#birds #birdwatching #woodpecker #nature
#birds #birdwatching #woodpecker #nature
December 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM
I love truth in naming. Please meet the red-bellied woodpecker.
#birds #birdwatching #woodpecker #nature
#birds #birdwatching #woodpecker #nature
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Red-winged Blackbird - When it's cold enough for the melody to show #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature
December 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Red-winged Blackbird - When it's cold enough for the melody to show #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature