 Join me at the Flights of Foundry virtual convention April 17- 18, 2021. Flights of Foundry highlights speculative creators: writers, artists, game makers, and podcasters. Participate in a panel, reading, workshop, or join a space to connect with another creative! If you are a dreamer, thinker, and/or a doer sign up for the FREE conference: https://flights-of-foundry.org/ .
April 16th 23:00 – 23:50 Workshop: Rein It In: How to write more realistically about horses. April 17th - 19:00-20:00 Horse Lovers Meet Up April 19th - 1:00 – 01:50 Measuring Podcasting Success Moderators: Sarah Faxon Speakers: Morrigan Puhr, M. S. Ewing, Theresa Halvorsen
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 Writin" Rascals is excited to announce the winner of our first annual Earth Day Poetry Contest. Rachel T. Smith Rachel T. Smith is an American writer and physical therapist living in Germany, temporarily. She enjoys writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She posts weekly on her Insta-Haiku account @racheltsmith_writer, to honor her first poetry professor. Her poem "Emptying the Sink" explores the global destruction of the planet through the eyes of a mundane housewife who feels ineffectual. It reminds of the struggles and importance of caring! Emptying the Sink Her head down, shoulders slumped, ignoring the intermittent neck pain of years that was the last of it, what if swirling down the drain disappearing into a euphemism the water’s useless flow, someone’s last sip in the sink apocalyptic landscapes dust clouds and dirt faces out the window monotonous placation concrete and characterless toweling the dishes dry, worrying about the day it runs out trees to make paper, food to make children her husband’s accusations of apathy, ignoring her concerns of suffocating when the oxygen is gone she thinks, what would happen to their marriage if she never again emptied the sink she thinks about people like her, ineffective with more thoughts than actions, she sees her husband’s blank stare an attempt at attrition, she hears him say, no one cares about killing butterflies - Rachel T. Smith Twitter: @racheltsmith_ Insta: @racheltsmith_writer  Congratulations to Gabriel Angel for advancing to the California State competition with his paper on the Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. Not only is his paper well researched and thoughtfully written, Gabriel tackled the project with great responsibility and care as the president of our Mesa Linda Environmental Club! I was so proud to work on the project as your sponsor! Great Work!
Congratulations to Kamaya Marks for winning the 1st Annual Mesa Linda Black History Month Contest. Her essay on the life and legacy of Beyoncé Knowles not only inspired her classmates, it inspired the judges as well. I am so proud to have been a part of her development as a scholar and writer. I know she will continue to use writing to follow her dream of becoming a student athlete who lights up not only the basketball court, but the pages as well! GO KAMAYA!
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