Saturday, December 29, 2018
Friday, December 28, 2018
The Village Writing School
Happy New Year from The
Village Writing School
Thank you for being a part of our community this year, whether you joined us in a writing workshop, the online memoir summit, or another program. Your support means the world to us.
We are excited to be planning our 2019 roster of events for writers. But we would love your input: What topics would you like us to focus on in upcoming workshops and events to help your writing?
Please take two minutes to fill out our short survey:
https://form.jotform.com/83293505313150
This year was an exciting year for the Village Writing School, but we want 2019 to be even more useful to you.
Let's make 2019 the year of YOUR story!
Thank you for being a part of our community this year, whether you joined us in a writing workshop, the online memoir summit, or another program. Your support means the world to us.
We are excited to be planning our 2019 roster of events for writers. But we would love your input: What topics would you like us to focus on in upcoming workshops and events to help your writing?
Please take two minutes to fill out our short survey:
https://form.jotform.com/83293505313150
This year was an exciting year for the Village Writing School, but we want 2019 to be even more useful to you.
Let's make 2019 the year of YOUR story!
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Toad Fellow a Poem
Toad
Fellow
©
Mary Nida Smith
The
twisted road
Covered
with yellow leaves
Traveled
a toad
Named
Longfellow.
Longfellow
the toad
Was
a poet, remember
Who
loved railroads
The month of December.
The
month of lights
All
colors and shapes
That
twinkled bright
Throughout
the landscape.
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc. (OWFI
The 2019 OWFI writing contest is open for submissions! Entrants must be paid members of OWFI or full-time students. Check out the rules and categories and submit your entries: https://www.owfi.org/contest2019/enter/.
If you have any questions, post them here and tag Aleasha Wales Shelnuttand Traci Ison Schafer so that we’ll see your post and respond as soon as possible!
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Sunday, December 02, 2018
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Gifts for Authors, Poets , Artist and other Creative Fields.
https://www.productexpert.com/gifts-for-writers/
Gifts for writers and poets.
If you are an artist Google it and other creative fields for just the right gift.
Gifts for writers and poets.
If you are an artist Google it and other creative fields for just the right gift.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Monday, November 19, 2018
Mission
There were a group of us
Traveling across country
Loaded in a large tour bus
Not one of us liked to fly
We were on a mission to discuss
Bees, moths and butterflies
Planting gardens of flowers, plus
Colors, fragrance and sizes that qualify
Providing nectar to creatures
In our mission outcry.
© Mary Nida Smith
There were a group of us
Traveling across country
Loaded in a large tour bus
Not one of us liked to fly
We were on a mission to discuss
Bees, moths and butterflies
Planting gardens of flowers, plus
Colors, fragrance and sizes that qualify
Providing nectar to creatures
In our mission outcry.
© Mary Nida Smith
Friday, November 16, 2018
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
U.S. Naval Undersea Museum Store & Foundation
Dear Mary,
Yes, we carry your book!
Thank you for checking in with us,
Daina
Daina Birnbaums
U.S. Naval Undersea Museum
Store & Foundation
1 Garnett Way / PO Box 408
Keyport, WA 98345
360-697-1537 / 360-697-1129
navalunderseamuseum.org
Monday, November 12, 2018
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Saturday, October 06, 2018
the poetry of US
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Crescent Dragonwagon Writing Workshop
https://www.facebook.com/CDragonwagon/?__tn__=%2CdkC-R-R&eid=ARD0Iw0ukpJcs8Tg8rlCAeMtas6C6PvIPMTLLuPt1k
WHAT: Start (or return to) writing in a 12-week, once-a-week small writing group with Crescent Dragonwagon. The group will open shortly in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is limited to twelve participants. Low-key, high-energy, centered on writing process and practice, each session gives writers and would-be writers the insights, tools, approaches, practices and methods they need to grow their work to its individual next level.
WHAT: Start (or return to) writing in a 12-week, once-a-week small writing group with Crescent Dragonwagon. The group will open shortly in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is limited to twelve participants. Low-key, high-energy, centered on writing process and practice, each session gives writers and would-be writers the insights, tools, approaches, practices and methods they need to grow their work to its individual next level.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Poem Framed
Framed
Photographing scenes
Sky, land, or people
I frame in my view
One at a time.
I raise my camera
Study each frame,
As I focus on the
Story it will project,
To others who view
The finished product,
Will say, she captured
The moment.
© Mary Nida Smith
Sky, land, or people
I frame in my view
One at a time.
I raise my camera
Study each frame,
As I focus on the
Story it will project,
To others who view
The finished product,
Will say, she captured
The moment.
© Mary Nida Smith
Monday, September 24, 2018
The Poetry of US
https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-US-celebrate-people-passions/dp/1426331851
Take a look inside -The Poetry of US - I was blessed to have a poem titled, "Ozarks" in it.
Take a look inside -The Poetry of US - I was blessed to have a poem titled, "Ozarks" in it.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pen
https://sisterhoodofthetravelingpen.wordpress.com/ and https://m.facebook.com/SisterhoodOfTheTravelingPen/ Coming soon to the Donald W. Reynolds Library, Mountain Home, AR The Sisterhood, Jan Morrill, Linda Apple and Ruth Weeks will be sharing. October 6, 1-3 pm.Don't miss this.
Saturday, September 08, 2018
Monday, September 03, 2018
Saturday, September 01, 2018
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
Mary Nida Smith Credits
National Geographic book, “The poetry of US,” edited
by J. Patrick Lewis. My poem about Arkansas
SILO
– South Central College Literary Magazine 500 word poem Cowboy Jo
Skyhorse
Publishing Inc. Book – Heroes Beneath the Waves: Submarine Stories of the
Twentieth Century.
Heroes
Beneath the Waves. (submarine poem)
Ozark
Regional Arts Council Historian January 2014-
Palette
Art League August Exhibited: Photographs and Illustrations/art, plus
photo
cards, 5x7 photos, books, and Free Verse Poetry Group’s latest CD “Driftwood.”
August 1-30, 2014. www.paletteartleague.com
Area
Art Club Art Show – Second place and honorable mention (photographs) June 2014
Louise
Grace Publishing, Women in Nature Anthology Series: Wildlife
Friends page 113, May 2014
Area Art Club ORAC exhibit at ASUMN
(photographs) 2013
Written
and read two poems on “Driftwood” second CD Free Verse Poetry Group, spring
2013
Area
Art Club Show Photographs won second place and honorable mention 2013
Historian
and Photographer, Midway Arkansas, Baptist Church 2008-2013
Journal
of the Ozarks Past and Present Premier Lightnin’ Publishing Company
Ozark
Poetry, (Poem) Page 62 winter 2013
Ozark
Regional Arts Council monthly newsletter columnist, “Twin Lakes Area Writers” http://ozarkregionalartscouncil.org May, 2012-
Princess Paisley
Cooks
with Friend (recipe) Limited Edition of 150 Sun-e-dale Knoll Publishing 2012
Bull
Shoals Art Club Show, photograph, honorable mention 2012
Ozarks
Sunrises: poetry chapbook with photographs, printed by Enterprise Printing
Company
October
2011
Storyteller
magazine, Volume 16 Issue I (cover photograph).
The Storyteller, 2441 Washington Rd., Maynard, AR 72444 Jan/Feb/Mar 2011
KID
MAGAZINE WRITERS: THE INFORMATION CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S MAGAZINE WRITERS - IN
MY OFFICE DEPARTMENT: BLOGGING IS AN IMPORTANT WRITER’S TOOL. Issue 62, http://www.kidmagwriters.com January 2010
GOOD
OLD DAYS magazine: Buck, the Comeback
Horse, page 68, Volume 47 – No 3. http://www.goodolddaysmagazine.com/inthisissue.php
May/June 2010
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine, Where Do You Find An Ozarks Mountaineer? Page- At Front Of
The Shoals Museum and photograph Volume 58, No 4. The Ozarks Mountaineer magazine, Where Do You Find An Ozarks
Mountaineer In The Potting Shed and
photograph in same issue July/August 2010
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine volume 58, No. 5 Photograph, Where Do you Find An
Ozarks Mountaineer by Mary Nida Smith won a years’ subscription for
contributing the picture and information page 60
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine Photograph of an outhouse in The Golden Country
Department Volume 57, No.6 page Nov/Dec 2009
The
Mountaineer ECHO newspaper, BS Art Club
is growing, October 2, 2008
The
Mountaineer ECHO newspaper, Allen speaks
to Bull Shoals historical society,
http://www.facebook.com/mountaineerecho November 26,
2009
Kid
Magazine Writers – On Line magazine My Office Dept. BLOGGING IS AN IMPORTANT
WRITER’S TOOL Issue 61, December 2009 http://www.kidmagwriters.com
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine Volume 57, no.3 Department – Round & About The
Ozarks – Cavefish Discovered in Baxter
County page 23, May/June 2009
Blogging
with author David L. Harrison, Word-of-the-month Poetry Challenge
http://davidlharrison.wordpress.com . Word of the
Month Hall of Fame Poet, Guest Poet and Guest Reader October 2009 -2012
POLARIS
magazine (Official Publication of U.S. Submarine Veterans World War II) USS SEA FOX SS-402 Vol. 52, No4, page 6 August 2008
Submarine
Stories of World War II non-fiction book published by Red Engine Press, Branson,
Missouri 2008
U.S.
SUBMARINE VETERANS OF WWII – Arkansas Diamond Chapter newsletter editor 2008- November
2009
Missouri
Writers’ Guild newsletter, Bloging is Very
Important Vol. 84 No 3 www.missouriwritersguild.org September 2008
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine Volume 55, No5 Department – Round& About The
Ozarks – New Bat Cave Discovers in Baxter
County page 24 Sept/Oct 2007
Once
Upon A Time magazine, Writer’s Block volume
12 # 1 page 27 Spring 2007
Ozark
Writers League, The OWL’s HOOT newsletter, SPEAKER
ASSESSMENT – HOW TO CHECK THEM
OUT, page 4 May 2007
SALUTE
Newsletter, RRP CONSULTING/RED ENGINE PRESS, Arkansas Inland Maritime
Museum, Vol.2, Issue 6 June 25, 2007
SALUTE
Newsletter, RRP CONSULTING/RED ENGINE PRESS, Mountain Home Plaza 2000, Vol.2 Issue 7 July 25, 2007
SALUTE
Newsletter, RRP CONSULTING/RED ENGINE PRESS,
Korea Conflict USS SEA FOX SS-402
Vol. 2, Issue 8 August 25, 2007
SALUTE
Newsletter, RRP CONSULTING/RED ENGINE PRESS, Writing My Book: Submarine
Stories of World War II, Vol. 2,
Issue 9 September/October 2007
Patriots’
Herald, A Carroll County Newspaper – Submarine
Veterans of World War II Yearly visit
to Eureka Springs, Friday, Nov15, 2007
Yarnspinners
& Wordweavers, Red Engine Press/River Road Press newsletter
BLOGGING/
Blogging as a Publicity Tool November, 2007
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine, Rocky Ridge
Refuge: Home of Lurch The Watusi, plus photographs and sidebar, pages 14
&15 Volume 54, No.1 Jan/Feb 2006
Yarnspinners
& Wordweavers, Red Engine Press/River Road Press Newsletter Poem/
Anxieties of Kite Flying, page 3, 3/17/2007
SALUTE
Newsletter, RRP CONSULTING/RED ENGINE PRESS The
United States Submarine Service,
Volume 1, Issue 2 May 25,2006
SALUTE
Newsletter, RRP CONSULTING/ RED ENGINE PRESS Close Encounter – Remembering
S-28 Volume 1, Issue 6 page 6-7 September 28, 2006
Yarnspinners & Wordweavers, Red Engine
Press/River Road Press, Conference, Workshops, & Retreats Sept/Oct2006
Ozarks
Magazine, DANDELIONS: THE SHEPHERD’S
CLOCK (Ozarks gardens) page 11
April/May 2006
Echoes
of the Ozark, Anthology published by awoc.com, Ozarks Writers League, Volume II Ancestry and Nature Unite Ozarkians page
111 2006
The
Mountaineer ECHO newspaper Bull Shoals:
The music capital of north central Arkansas August 3, 2006
Ozark
Mountain News (Serving the Twin Lakes Area) Book
looks at local curiosities
Reviewed by Mary Nida Smith Eccentric
America Volume2, No1 page 16 August 2006
Ozark
Mountain News Country music group takes a
bow Volume 1, No 11 page 6 July
2006
Ozark
Mountain News, Taking the natural out of
our Natural State. Volume 1,
No.
9 page 6 May 2006
POLARIS
magazine, CLOSE ENCOUTER REMEMBERING S-28
Vol. No 50 page 10, October 2006
Ozark
Mountain News, American Legion is active
in helping Volume 1, No 5 page 8, December
2005
Ozark
Mountain News Meet the Subvets Volume
1, No4 page 16 November 2006
Ozarks’
Senior Living Newspaper, HOUSE PLANTS ARE
LIKE CHILDREN page 17 http:// www. slnewspaper.com/Featured%20stories.htm
February, 2005
The
Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Missouri newsletter
MO
Scribbles ELIMINATE CLUTTER AND STRESS
winter 2005
The
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators - Fine Lines, Australia
Chapter Newsletter Eliminate Cutter and Stress
(winter 2005)
The
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Arkansas, Reporter
for
Arkansas SCBWI chapter news for Missouri SCBWI MO Scribble newsletter,
Fall
2004 -winter 2005
Ozarks
Writers League newsletter, article (OWL) ELIMATE
CLUTTER AND STRESS page 4, August 2005
Ozark
Mountain News, The Spider Lady captures
beauty in the web Volume 1, No. 3 October 2005 Page 8
Ozarks
Magazine, MAGICAL MOPHEADS (ozarks
gardens) Photographs page 22 Fall2005
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine, Mountain
Home – Home of Ozarks Mountain News
- Round & About The Ozarks Dept. Volume 53, No 7 page 20 Sept/Oct 2005
Ozarks
Monthly- Gardening – chives for all
seasons, plus photos –E-zine on line
WestSide
Star newspaper, Chive Gardening in the
Ozarks, Special to the WestSide Star Wednesday, Vol.2 No. 14page 14 A
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
GOOD
OLD DAYS SPECIALS, Christmas Among the
Wolves, plus photos Volume 29, Number 1, Page 46-47- 48 GoodOldDays-magazine.com
January 2002
Twin
Lakes Writer (Founder of the group and newsletter) Editor of the Twin Lakes
Writers newsletter 2002-2005
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine News of
Another Mountaineer, Round & About
The Ozarks, Dept. Volume 50, No. 1,
50th Anniversary Issue page 22 February/March 2002
GRIT
– AMERICAN LIFE TRADTIONS – My Favorite Garden Dept., Garden Oasis, plus
photos, Volume 120, No. 8 page 18-19 April 14, 2002
Rural
Arkansas magazine, Cicada season page
20 V0l.I.IV, Number 9July 1, 2001
The
Ozarks Mountaineer magazine, Rustic Roads
- poem page 56 Vol. 48, No. 4
August/September
2000
GRIT
– AMERICAN LIFE TRADITION – HOBBIES & CRAFTS Dept. TINY TOWN, Plus photos
Volume 118, No. 22 page 14-15 0ctober 29, 2000
Baxter
County Poets Association contest second place Mary Nida Smith Backyard
November
10, 2000
Siloam
Spring Writers Workshop Third Place, What
Would Christmas be without a Tree
(children’s story) August 24, 1996
Inside
Stories Harvard Avenue Baptist Church Art Ministry: Unconditional Love and A
Labor of Love “Fatherhood” Mary Ann (Nida) Smith Volume 1, 1996
Inside Stories from Harvard Avenue Baptist
Church Arts Ministry: HABC WAR WIVES PATROL (of World War II) Mary Ann (Nida) Smith Volume 2, 1996
Sager
Creek Arts Center Brochure covers/ photographs April 1995,
October
1, 1995
Sager
Creek Arts Center 6th Annual Children Playwright Contest Mary Ann
(Nida) Smith honorable mention July 19, 1995
The
Herald- Leader newspaper, Church
constitutes at Robinson, photo Page 6 B Wednesday, September 7, 1994
The
Herald- Leader newspaper, Photo and caption Great
pumpkins Wednesday, Page 5B September 7, 1994
The
Herald- Leader newspaper, Siloam Springs, Arkansas - photograph contest
Scenic
Winner by Mary Ann (Nida) Smith Page 4B – Sunday, October 31, 1993
Northwest
Living! Magazine, Weed and Grass Bouquets,
page 40-41 Volume 3, Number 6 June 1988
Northwest
Living! Magazine, The Chariots of Winter
(Twin Falls Field Editor Page 19 Volume 7, Number, November-December 1989
Northwest Living! Magazine, Weed and Grass Bouquets, page 40-41
Volume 3, Number 6 June 1988
Magic
Valley Farm Lines, South Idaho Press, a Park Newspaper, Chariot racing – popular winter sport, page 4-5 with sidebar- You can be involved in chariot racing too. January, 1988
Magic
Valley Farm Lines South Idaho Press, a Park Newspaper, She trains horse- Jerome
woman makes childhood dream real, page 4 and page 812
New Idaho
noxious weed list will be out soon, with illustration February, 1988
Magic
Valley Farm lines, South Idaho Press, a Park Newspaper, Hunts balance farm-city lives,
page 8 and page 21 Pony Club helps mold
youth and page 22 Countryside
Reflections (essay) March, 1988
Magic
Valley Farm Lines, South Idaho Press, a Park Newspaper, “Treat ‘em good” Jerome man
talks “mule” (White Mules) page 6-7 and page B13,April is dawning(essay)
April, 1988
Magic
Valley Farm Lines, South Idaho Press, a park Newspaper, Pair moves breeding farm to Jerome, page 15 July, 1988
Northwest
Living! Magazine, Christmas on the Desert,
(Field Editor) page26, Volume 6, Number1, November-December 1988
Port
Orchard Independent newspaper, Port Orchard, Washington, weekly column, Manchester Matters (About the people & village events) May, 26, 1987 –October 2, 1987
Port
Orchard Independent newspaper, Port orchard, Washington – Manchester port commissioners
seek funding assistance for park, September 18, 1987
Writers’
Chapbook, A New Voice in an Old Land, Illustration page 8 issue#6,
January,
1987
Writers’
Chapbook, A New Voice in an Old Land, Poetry Weather Fantasy & illustration
Boise, Idaho issue #7 April 1987
Northwest
Living! Magazine, Weed and Grass Bouquets, page 40-41 Volume 3, Number 6 June
1988
The
Falls Street Journal, Official Monthly Publication of the Greater Twin Falls
Area Chamber of Commerce, Ode to the
Magic Valley (poem) Volume 4 April 1986
Pentecostal
Evangel Poem Seesaw prayer life page
31 No. 3694 February 24, 1985
Oregon
Journal newspaper, Portland, Oregon Book Review Department, Reviews published
under the name of Mary Bensching: THE THIRD HALF by Mildred Davis; WILD GOOSE,
BROTHER GOOSE, by Mel Ellis; HOMELAND by Hal Borland; THE THROWAWAY CHILDREN by
Lisa Aversa Richette 1969-1970
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© Mary Nida Smith
Searching for food
Listen to our voice
Said the deer
Searching for acorns
Listen, listen, to our voice
Cried the birds looking
For a home in the trees
Listen to our voice said the bear
Looking for berries and seeds
All the animals raised their
Voices – listen to us
Listen, listen humans
Hear our voice loud and clear
You humans are destroying us
As you steal our land
And destroy, to build
Shopping malls and houses
Slowly our voices will be silent
The few left behind will walk
In shadows on streets
While humans sleep.