Regina Williams

Regina Williams is a graduate of Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Her working career has included DJ for a local radio station, Law Secretary, Arkansas State Park Interpreter where she introduced new programs into the park system, did research on Old Davidsonville that claimed the first county seat, the first courthouse and first post office in Arkansas. She also worked at Waterloo Industries making Craftsman toolboxes for Sears and at Wal Mart, among other part-time jobs. While not noteable jobs they pushed her toward her writing career. She began writing as staff writer for a small hometown magazine, where she traveled over several states, looking for the "perfect story".

Ms. Williams has always had an adventurous spirit, and in 1996, she began to look into the world of publishing. Since that time, she has created and published a magazine unique in the publishing world. Her door is always open to any writer with questions about the writing life. Unlike most editors, Ms. Williams will do her best to help the new writer realize their dreams of getting published. We like to think of ourselves as a teaching magazine--one that will go that extra mile for the writer, because she was once a new writer herself and wished she could have found this type of magazine when she first started.

She is President of Ozarks Writers League (OWL) in Branson, Missouri, a member of Saturday Writers, Ozark Creative Writers, and Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc. OWFI.

Was awarded Editing award from the Governing Board of Editors

Who's Who In U. S. Writers, Editors & Poets

Ms. Williams lives in Maynard, Arkansas, and Old Bridge, New Jersey, with her husband Tom. Daughter Jamie, son-in-law, Gordon, and last, but certainly not least, her grandson, Dakota Gage, (6) and granddaughter, Cheyenne Lynn, (2) the most perfect children on the face of the earth, live next door to her in Maynard.

Ms. Williams has completed two novels:

Washed in the Blood (Suspense)

The Traveler (Fantasy/Futuristic Adventure) Won 1st place at Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc. OWFI in May 2006

Washed in the Blood now has an agent. See blurb in "BOOKS"

She is also working on a book dealing with the absurdities of life in the South in the '60's. Growing up a Preacher's Kid in a home that welcomed the weird and unusual--in addition to the slightly willfull children of Irish descent. Trust me, there was never a dull moment!

•  1994-Heartland Writers Guild Conference                                   
•            3rd place--Too Little Too Late
• 1999-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           A. C. H. Graphics Award                                                
•           3rd Honorable Mention--Angela's Dream
• 2000-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           A. C. H. Graphics Award
•           1st Place-Blue Velvet Ribbon
• 2001-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           Hightower Award
•           2nd Place-A Preacher's Life
• 2002-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           The Caudle Memorial Award
•           2nd Place-The Snake That Came to Church
• 2003-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           Oxbow Award
•           1st Honorable Mention-Roundup at Cottonwood
• 2004-Arkansas Writers Conference
•           Grif Stockley Mystery Award
•           3rd Place-Storm Warnings
• 2004-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           Creativity to the Max Award
•           2nd Place-Summer of '61
• 2004-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           Mid-South Writers Group Award
•           2nd Honorable Mention-The Lady in White
• 2004-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           2nd Honorable Mention-One Last Goodbye
• Three "Editor's Choice" Awards for Poetry
• Who's Who in U. S. Writer's, Editors, and Poets 2002 Edition
• Great Minds of the 21st Century 2002 (For editing)
• 2005-Dan Saults Award OWL-Calling me Home
• 2006-Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc. (OWFI)1st place-"The Traveler" (novel)    
• 2006-Dan Saults Award  OWL - The Summer of  '61 
• 2006-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•            3rd place -Eufalia
• 2006-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•           3rd place-Bella's Secret
• 2007-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•            2nd Honorable Mention-In the Shadow of the Mountains-Poem
• 2007-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•            3rd place-Never Fear the Shadows
• 2007-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•            2nd place-A Stranger Among Us
• 2007-Ozark Creative Writers Conference
•            1st place-A Love That Lasts-written with Lou Turner and Delois McGrew
• 2007-Ozark Creative Writers Conference--The Showcase Award
•            1st place-A Treasured Thing

• Dusty presenting me           Dusty presenting me with
•  with the Dan Saults             with the  2007Ozark Creative
•  Award at OWL 2005          Writers Showcase Award for
•  for "Calling Me Home"        "A Treasured Thing"