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Linda Newsom,
a member of the Writers' Group of the Triad for more than ten
years, first submitted a poem for contest consideration. One
of her short stories, "Why I Am a Bartender" was published in
the WGOT autobiographical collection, Introspectrum.
Another short story, "Riddle Run," was published in Wordworks
the WGOT adult anthology. She has had a varied career as kindergarten
teacher, delivery driver for a trucking dealership, purchasing
and parts clerk, and ultimately as Senior Facility Administrative
Assistant to the Facilities Manager of RF Micro Devices which
includes purchasing of facility parts, some technical writing,
and working in liaison with the facility Superintendant, building
managers, project engineers and technicians. Creative non-fiction,
restoring old photos and motorcycling are a few of her many
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Dorothy P. O'Neill,
a member of the Mystery subgroup, has just sold her first mystery,
Double Deception, published by Avalon. This is Dorothy's
fourth published novel with Avalon. The first three were romances.:
"Heart's Choice," "Beyond Endearment," and "L is for
Love." In "The Rock and the Rhododendrons," a short
mystery story in WGOT's mystery anthology, "Deadly Plots,",
a beautiful, young aquatic performer takes a fatal plunge at
a lakeside resort, but guest, Leigh Cutler, doesn't believe
it was an accident. Dorothy P. O'Neill is now working on two
mystery sequels for Avalon, Fatal Purchase and one tentatively
titled Ultimate Doom. Her poetry and light verse have
appeard in Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, and
other national magazines. Her weekly humor column was a feature
in the Staten Island Register for eight years.
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Fran Ostasiewski
is treasurer and a member of the board of the Writers' Group
of the Triad. He is a native of Connecticut with a degree in
economics. He became a regular participant in the poetry group
of WGOT during the past year. He won first place in the Haiku/Senryu
category and honorable mention in the Arizona State Poetry Society's
36th annual contest. His own childhood provided both interest
and material for children's poetry, which remains his favorite.
However, through the writers' group, and instruction at Guilford
College, his writing focus has expanded from the writing of
children's poetry to include haiku and free verse forms. Other
interests include scuba diving, golf, symphony, theater, and
his granddaughter Ashlyn. |
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Leslie Parker
came to Greensboro from Philadelphia and has been a member of
WGOT since the mid 1990's. An early childhood educator, she
writes poetry and has contributed three poems to "A Turn
in Time: Piedmont Writers at the Millennium.." She was a
finalist (1993) and then runner-up (1995) in the Bucks County
(PA) Poet Laureate Competition. She has also placed in contests
sponsored by the Poetry Council of North Carolina (1998) and
the North Carolina Poetry Society (2001). Her poetry has appeared
in Bay Leaves, Cold Mountain Review, and other journals,
as well as the WGOT adult anthology, Wordworks (2003).
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Mary
Elizabeth Parker's poetry
book, "The Sex Girl," is published by Urthona Press,
in Asheville. It is a book by, for and about strong women, written
in many different voices (Urthona1@aol.com). Her short story
in "A Turn in Time" is titled "Mustang." It is about
her father's exotic car, his favorite dream on wheels, a '64
Mustang, the very first model made. She describes it as "seagreen,
lean and prancing" and tells how she and her five brothers and
sisters loved to squeeze into this "cool" car over many years.
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Julie Anne Parks
has worked as a flight attendant, administrative assistant,
executive secretary, freelance writer and newspaper reporter.
She turned to fiction in 1995 and has had over forty short
stories published as well as several essays. She won the 1999
Larry E. Watson Memorial Fiction Award for her story, "Requiem,"
and is a contributing editor to Suite 101.com, for whom she
writes a weekly regional humor column. Her book, Storyteller,
is a supernatural suspense novel published by Design Image
Group (ISBN 1891946048). For more about Julie, link to: www.members.aol.com/jparks1393
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Al Perry
is a novelist who splits his time between the North Carolina
foothills and the low country of South Carolina. He attended
and got great inspiration from the Stonecoast and Squaw Valley
Writers' Conferences. A Winston-Salem resident, he is a member
of the Bill Bray Writers' Group in that city and also a member
of the WGOT non-fiction genre in Greensboro. His first novel,
The Lanyard (2003) was published by the Writer's Showcase
and was co-written by Liz Huck of Springfield, Illinois, ex-director
of the Poet's and Writer's Literary Forum. The Winston-Salem
group is named after the Galax, VA writer who facilitated it
until his sudden death in 2002. Perry describes Bill Bray as
"a teacher who wielded the red pencil with a firm hand, but
neither cruelty nor mean-spiritedness ever colored his comments."
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E.A. Price,
a member of WGOT since its early years, is an artist and teacher
as well as writer. With degrees from Barton College, UNC-Greensboro
and NC A.&T. State University, she has taught in the public
schools and community colleges and regularly exhibits her mixed-media
art in the Triad and Triangle areas. She has had both fiction
and poetry published. Her work has appeared in International
Icarus, the WGOT anthologies, The Voice Within, Wordworks,
and Candle in the Attic, as well as in O. Henry Festival
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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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