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Walter R. Turner
is a member of the WGOT Nonfiction genre. He serves as historian
at the North Carolina Transportation Museum at Spencer, NC.
A fifth-generation North Carolinian, he grew up in Winston-Salem.
He earned his undergraduate degree in history at Methodist College,
Fayetteville, and a master's degree in social work at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served with the Peace Corps
in the Philippines and later became a social worker and travel
agent. His articles on transportation history have appeared
in Our State magazine, Business North Carolina,
and the state's major newspapers. In Fall, 2003, he published
Paving Tobacco Road - A Century of Progress by the North
Carolina Department of Transportation, a richly detailed
and masterfully researched book that captures the decade by
decade drama of one of North Carolina's great untold stories:
the "Good Roads State." Walter and his wife Pamela live in Greensboro
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Connie Usry
is Secretary of the Writers' Group of the Triad and a member
of the board of directors. She moved to Greensboro in 1994 from
Chicago where she worked in the print field as an assistant
magazine editor, as well as in the radio industry. She is a
mother and grandmother and a member of the WGOT nonfiction genre.
Her short story, "Christmas in Kotz," is published in the anthology
Wordworks. In addition to her writing, she divides her
time among her job, many volunteer commitments, and the upkeep
and renovation of her home, located in one of Greensboro's historical
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Mary
Webb now resides in Detroit,
MI and was the coordinator of Short Fiction entries in the 2004
Greensboro Awards. Mary was a co-facilitator of the WGOT Children's
Writers genre and was also a member of the Nonfiction genre.
She received a B.A. in accounting and business management from
Lawrence Technical University and has spent 30 years in the
life insurance industry. Her tongue-in-cheek poem "Body Language"
is in the children's anthology, "Candle in the Attic." Her story
"A Gift for Santa" was published in the magazine "Inside J.P.F."
and her story about a crab race in St. Croix took first place
Nonfiction in the Burlington Writers Club contest (2002). She
interviewed many veterans for stories included in Freedom's
Heroes (2002) and was ghost writer with Gail Fleagle for the
book Silent Like a Lion, a biography of Fred Dickerson. She
gets both inspiration and motivation from her 10 children and
more than 30 grandchildren in an extended family that stretches
from the Rocky Mountains to the Caribbean. |
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Bob Webb
is now a resident of Detroit, MI and was former President of
WGOT. He was webmaster and originated the WGOT website (www.triadwriters.org).
He was regional workshop coordinator (Greensboro branch) of
the Nashville Songwriters Association International, and was
also a member of the Greensboro Playrights Forum and the WGOT
nonfiction and children's writers genres. He was executive editor
for Car Biz magazine in Detroit, for Candid Viewer magazine
in Chicago, and his color photography has been on the covers
of Xpressions magazine, an automotive aftermarket publication.
Born in Arizona, he has lived in New York, Boston, Chicago,
Miami Beach and Greensboro. He has a short story and children's
song in the anthology "Candle in the Attic" (2001), an article
in the veterans' anthology Freedom's Heroes (2002), and contributed
photography and coordinated illustrations for the biography
Silent Like a Lion (2003).. |
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Robert
Steven Williams is a writer
and a songwriter who lives in Westport, CT. He is co-author
of the best-selling business book, The World's Largest Market.
His short story, "Jersey Cowboy" appeared in Carve Magazine
in May 2005. He was awarded the Squaw Valley Writers Community
Thayer Scholarship for his short story, "A Winter's Day" in
2004, and has taken fiction classes at the Gotham Writers' Workshop,
Zeotrope and the New School. "Coming Home" appeared in the anthology
"Tall Tales and Short Stories Volume II," in 2004. Williams
was the New Century Writer quarter finalist for the novel Sound
of Money in the summer of 2003. He is a member of Writers'
Group of the Triad in North Carolina and its affiliate NSAI
Greensboro Songwriters Chapter. He is also on the board of directors
of the Connecticut Songwriters Association and SummerSongs,
a songwriter's annual retreat in the Catskills. For more info,
including writing samples, visit his website: http://www.againstgrain.com
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Kathy Sharon
Wilson attends the NSAI
Greensboro songwriters' chapter and the WGOT poetry genre.
She has degrees and a background in journalism. She served
internships with the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and WGN-TV
in Chicago. She worked as a news assistant in the New York
Times' Chicago Bureau. She has also been a copy editor
and has served as a project researcher on a forthcoming Random
House book on The Great Migration. Her essay, "Publish
or Perish?" appears in The Write Stuff and she has
a poem recently published in the WGOT adult anthology, Wordworks.
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Jon Young is facilitator of Mystery Group II. A native of Greensboro, he has lived in Reidsville with his wife Barb and two children since 1991. A graduate of Catawba College with a degree in drama, Jon is staff writer in the Public Information and Marketing Office at Alamance Community College. Through that capacity, he has won two writing awards from the N.C. Association of Government Information Officers. His magazine writing credits include articles published in Business Life, Office Solutions, E-Merging Business, Winston-Salem Magazine, and Alamance Magazine. Jon is seeking representation for his first suspense novel, Deeper Than Darkness. |
NOTE: How does one get to be included on this list? Published
Writers Group of the Triad writers with national magazine credits
or writers with stories published in anthologies are included. Being
a facilitator of one of our genres or a WGOT board member also gets
you in. As you can see, we have had difficulties with some of the
photos, and we appreciate your patience and understanding. We are
still trying to get this sort of thing worked out. If you are listed
here without a photo or wish to have a different photo used than
the one on the website, please email a digital copy (.jpg files
preferred) to Webmaster Karen McCullough at karen@kmccullough.com.
Please put "WGOT" in the subject line. If you are not
listed here but want to be, please forward a short bio (not to exceed
100 words) and photo to the same address.
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