Announcing Faculty and Registration for the Orange County Christian Writers Conference on May 1, 2010
OC Christian Writers Conference Announces the First Annual Beverly Bush Smith Aspiring Writer Award
This past April, our beloved Co-Director Emeritus, Beverly Bush Smith, went home to be with the Lord. To everyone who knew her, Beverly exuded class, spirituality, and passion in all of her efforts—as a Christian woman, a mother, a friend, a writer, and a board member of OCCWF. We all miss her.
As a way to memorialize her spirit and her willingness to help new writers, we have inaugurated The Beverly Bush Smith Aspiring Writer Award. This award will consist of an annual scholarship, or scholarships as funds allow, in Beverly’s name acknowledging a new writer that Bev would have singled out to help and encourage.
The first Beverly Bush Smith Aspiring Writer Award will be made to a writer wishing to attend the OC Christian Writers Conference, May 1, 2010 in Irvine, California.
About Beverly Bush Smith
Beverly was a noted journalist with the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Orange County Register. A resident of Lake Forest, CA, Beverly was celebrated for her cooking and restaurant reviews. In addition, she was a beloved Bible teacher and women’s speaker, avid skier, hiker, and swimmer—plus an award-winning sailor. Her family cherished her as a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. In addition to newspaper writing, Beverly was an author of books. Her titles includeUniquely You, Change for the Better, Caught in the Middle, Wings of a Dove (from her Zoe Journal series), and Evidence of Things Unseen.
No matter how successful she was in her own writing career, Bev never lost her great compassion for other writers, especially new, aspiring ones, and her desire to help them find their own voice, market, and ministry. That’s why she spent years actively helping OrangeCounty writers and leading our organization. Indeed, until her death last spring, she continued to help OCCWF as an official advisor, encouraging and inspiring us with her passion for the Lord, for people, and for writing.
How to Apply for the Beverly Bush Smith Aspiring Writer Award
To be considered for this award, writers must not yet be published in the genre they are submitting to. They may submit not more than five pages total of an article, story, first chapter of a book, or poems. Entries must be typed, double spaced on one side of white paper in normal-sized font. Also include your name, address, phone number and email address, plus your age. In addition, write a brief paragraph telling us why you want to be a Christian writer, and those you wish to reach with your writing. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2010.
- Place “Writers Award” in the subject line. - Include your personal information and brief paragraph in the body of the email. - Either cut and paste your manuscript into the body of the email, or add it as an attachment.
Or you may send your submission by “snail mail” to:
Beverly Bush Smith Writer Award 3330 S. Lowell St., Santa Ana, CA92707
Call Bonnie at (714) 751-7824 if you have any questions. We look forward to reading your work!
