[8][9] A selection of her work includes: "Porch Light, A Window: How a neighbourhood storefront became a gathering place for Vancouver’s Black creative community," "'Before my book on New York, I was a painter'," "'They're all conjurors': A conversation with Deanna Bowen & Cecily Nicholson," as well as "summer barrels past," "the poem is a score.
[27][28] Participating artists included Charlotte Zhang, Tania Willard and Steven Thomas Davies, Tau Lewis, Julia Feyrer, Elisa Ferrari and John Brennan.
[29] Participating artists in Anamnesia included Sharon Bradley, Crista Dahl, Amy Kazymerchyk, Donato Mancini, and Alex Muir.
One installment, titled "NRAI: No Reading After the Internet," included the participation of artists Harjap Grewal, Tone Olaf Nielsen, Raymond Boisjoly, and Glen Coulthard, and considered community and aesthetic responses to imagined futures through intersections of cultural production, theory and activism.
Select examples include: From 2019-2020, Nicholson served as a member of the Ethics Research Board for Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
As a poet and a writer, Nicholson has worked in collaboration with the Press Release Poetry Collective, which was formed in anticipation of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
[37] Also in 2010, Nicholson participated in the Safe Assembly project, which included a series of readings and discussions focused on poetry and politics in the context of anti-Olympics resistance in Vancouver, 2010, and critique of the Olympic Industrial Complex more broadly.
This includes conducting research and reporting on issues around immigration controls, racial profiling, detention and deportation, law enforcement brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants.