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| Beverly Bush Smith, Former OCCWF Director |
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In 2009, 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 was awarded to a writer at the OC Christian Writers Conference, April 30, 2011, 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 include Uniquely 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 Orange County writers and leading our organization. Indeed, until her death, she continued to help OCCWF as an official adviser, encouraging and inspiring us with her passion for the Lord, for people, and for writing.
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