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The Storyteller Magazine

 

Regina Williams

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Editor/Publisher Regina Williams


Ms. Williams is not only the Editor/Publisher, she is also the Founder of The Storyteller Magazine. Ms. Williams is a graduate of Williams Baptist College, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.  Her career has included DJ, law secratary, Arkansas State Parks Interpreter, and staff writer for a local magazine, not to mention many mind-numbing, and boring 9-5's. 

As editor, she has been accepted into the 2002 edition of Who's Who in U.S. Writer's, Editors, and Poets. 

Her work has been in Midwest Literary Magazine, Shorelines Literary Magazine, Horse and Mule Magazine, Smile: American Short Humor, Black  Powder Annual, Rural Arkansas, Black Petals, Amazon Shorts, Futures  Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Ozarks Monthly, Fiction Addiction, Dead Mule, Writing on Walls Anthology I &  II, & III, Echoes of the Ozarks Anthology  I, II & III, IV, & V, Tales of the South Anthology, Cuirve River Anthology, Shadows After Midnight Anthology and Voices Anthology I & II, & III, as well as online at Fiction Addiction.

 She has also won awards with Heartland Writers Guild, Ozark Creative Writers Conference, Arkansas Writers, Ozark Writers League where she won the Dan Saults award two years in a row, the Showcase Award at Ozark Creative Writers Conference and Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc., where she won first place for her sci-fi  novel. She has also won several awards for her poetry.

 She has completed two novels, Washed In the Blood, a suspense novel set in the Ozark Foothills, now with an agent, and The Traveler, a sci-fi novel.
 
In the last two years, Ms. Williams has presented programs to Saturday Writers Workshop, Ozarks Writers League, Hemingway-Pheiffer Writers Retreat, Ozark Creative Writers Conference, NW Arkansas Ridge Writers, Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas, Maumelle Writer's Conference, Missouri Writers Guild Conference, Heartland Writers Conference, and White County Creative Writers Conference, as well as, Oregon Christian Writers Conference. For her schedule please log on to:
http://www.freewebs.com/reginaw

 Ms. Williams is a member of Saturday Writers, Ozark Creative Writers and was President for Ozarks Writers League 2008-2009.  
 She lives in Maynard.

Proofreader Rick Jankowski

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Mr. Jankowski lives and writes in Tinley Park, Illinois. Four years ago, he began writing stories about lavender mists, haunted publishers, and happiness viruses, and to his great suprise and delight, over two dozen of those stories have been published in small presses and literary magazines, inculding The Storyteller, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, Double Danger Tales, Detective Mystery Story, Alien Worlds, The Griffin, The Macgriffin, Green's Magazine, Armchair Aesthete, Peridot Books, Wild Violet, Andromeda Space Ways, The Cuivre River Anthology, Aphelion and Verbicide. 

He has won several awards and was a semi-finalist in the New Century Writer Ray Bradbury Fellowship Contest. The Edifice and the deception was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Pull up a chair and read more of his work at: www.freewebs.com/rickjankowski


Poetry Editor Jamie Johnson

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Ms. Johnson has been writing most of her life. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she's had several short stories and poems published and has won awards for her work. She owns and operates her own business--CheyDok Designs a webpage design company.
 
Ms. Johnson's talents are seen on this website. She lives in Maynard, Arkansas with her husband Gordon and two children, Dakota and Cheyenne.

Jamie has conducted a poetry seminar at The Heartland Writer's conference in Sikeston, Mo.


Editor at Large Ruthan Riney

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Mrs. Riney is a homemaker, florist, church secratary and writer. She won her first award for a story called Awesome. An avid reader, she critiques subscriber's short stories for the magazine. (Critique fees are listed along with the ad rates.) Her talents also include painting, crafts, cooking, and gardening. She lives in Maynard with her husband, Dick.

 Brenna--the grown up version of the little girl in the picture--is our past Managing Editor. We were sorry to lose her, but life is that way sometimes.


Articles Editor Dusty Richards

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Mr. Richards has published over 100 books. His latest, Wulf's Tracks is now available. Dusty was inducted into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame, won two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America (the first author to ever win two in one year). He won the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Award and the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame award. He is on the board of Ozarks Writers League, Ozarks Creative Writers, and the Oklahoma Writers Federation. He lives in Springdale with his wife, Pat.


Assistant Art Director Nancy Riney

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Ms. Riney has been interested in art most of her life. While in  school, she designed the sets for the junior and senior plays and won numerous awards for her work, including Honorable Mention from Time Magazine when a Jr. in high school.

She has written and illustrated a children's book and is looking for an agent. Nancy's artwork has been featured in The Storyteller almost since it's conception, when she designed our logo. Her dedication,  professionalisim, and knowledge as a paramedic have earned her the respect and  admiration of her peers.

Ms. Riney's artwork has been displayed at Studio on the Square in Pochaontas, Arkansas, The Oval Gallery in Little Rock, Arkansas for their Aqua Viva Show, and at the Patrick Henry Hayes Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. She also had some of her work displayed at the Starving Artist Cafe in Little Rock, Arkansas. She lives in Warm Springs, Arkansas.


Art Director Otis Lawson

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Mr. Lawson has edited and published two books, Smile: American Short Humor Anthology and Rhyme: A Journey Through Life. His work has appeared in numerous small press magazines. His artwork graced the covers of The Storyteller for several years.
 
He is now working on an espionage/political mystery. Mr. Lawson and his wife Donna live in Durant, Oklahoma.


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