2006 Writers' Conference

White County Creative Writers

2006 Writers' Conference

White County Creative Writers hosted their 11th Annual Writers' Conference on September 2, 2006. The one-day event was attended by 50 writers from Arkansas and the surrounding states. Thirteen contests held in conjunction with the conference resulted in almost four hundred entries.

Wendy Ledbetter worked as an editor and writer for Family History Magazine until that publication was donated to the city of Logan, Utah, where it is currently being published under the former name, Everton’s Geneological Helper. She has been involved with the media industry for more than a decade, with the last several years devoted completely to freelance writing for magazines, newspapers, and website owners/developers. She established a small business, Wendy’s World, and has three part time writers in her employ.

Wendy Ledbetter

A native of Gurdon, Arkansas, where she currently makes her home, Wendy is the daughter of the late Raymond and Betty Wells Ledbetter, mother of Hollie Trollinger of Lincoln and Leslie Baumgardner of Okolona, and grandmother of Jay and Ruby, both of Lincoln.

Regina Williams - Getting the Editors' Attention; a look at what to do ( and what not to do) when submitting your work.

Wendy Ledbetter - Exposing Your Roots; a guide to Family History and Journaling

Wendy Ledbetter - Working with the 'Net; the expanding market for writing

Georgie Mcirvin - Mining for the Story; how to conduct a great interview in order to write a great article

Thanks to all these great ladies and the wonderful programs they presented.

Georgie McIrvin

Regina Williams

Regina Williams has been published in works such as Rural Arkansas, Black Powder Annual, Black Petals, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Ozarks Monthly, , Echoes of the Ozarks Anthology, and online at Fiction Addiction. Her suspense novel, "Washed in the Blood" is with an agent. She is vice-president of Ozarks Writers League, a member of Ozark Creative Writers and Saturday Writers. Regina was honored in 2002 in the Who's Who in U. S. Writers, Editors and Poets.

Regina is the editor of The Storyteller, an international magazine and a freelance writer. She started the magazine in 1996 to give beginning writers a chance at publication. Since then, The Storyteller has published hundreds of new writers, as well as experienced well-published authors, and has become a nominating contributor for the Pushcart Prize.

Georgie McIrvin decided to be a professional writer in 1999 and attacked that pursuit with a vengeance. Within four years she had over 150 articles, primarily personality profiles, published in newspapers in Arkansas and England.

In contests Georgie has garnered over 50 awards. She has short stories published in two anthologies and one story accepted for reading on Public Radio. According to McIrvin, “all of these required an interview.” Many of her ideas for articles and stories come from her travels to England and Central America, and the people she has met while traveling have often found their way into her stories.

In the fall of 2004, she began taking classes at ASU-Heber Springs just for the fun of it, or as she says "for Alzheimer's prevention." In October of 2005 she was appointed Campus Minister at ASU-Heber and began organizing a Baptist Collegiate Ministry group, which she says is almost a full time, though volunteer, job. Although she is doing little writing at the moment, Georgie is still active in White County Creative Writers and Sugarloaf Scribblers and Scribes.