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Writer of the Year<br />
Otis Windham Jr.<br />
Otis Windham Jr. is a native of Laurel,<br />
Mississippi and the author of<br />
“Thompsonville Collection: Mystic<br />
Song of the Deep South” and<br />
“Thompsonville Heritage : A Mystic<br />
Legacy” . Both books are available<br />
as EBooks on Amazon in Kindle format<br />
and also in paperback.<br />
Otis is a Viet Nam era U.S. Navy veteran<br />
and an active Senior member of the<br />
African American Golfing community.<br />
He has served as an Advisory Board<br />
member for African American Golfer’s<br />
Digest magazine since 2009. He was a<br />
Project Manager for Xerox Corporation<br />
and also worked as Media Services<br />
Manager for Golf Channel in Orlando<br />
until his retirement in 2009. He was<br />
Tournament Organizer and Coordinator<br />
for the annual Neckbone Classic Golf<br />
tournament ( a social and mentoring<br />
group for African Americans) from 1998<br />
through 2009. In 2016, he was honored<br />
as a Black Golf pioneer by the Global Golf Institute.<br />
He is Vice President of the Orlando Renaissance Writer’s Guild whose<br />
mission is to ignite and propel the craft of writing. He also currently serves as<br />
<strong>Program</strong> Director for Heart2Heart Community Outreach in Orlando. Its mission<br />
is to elevate and support those in need in the urban community. He is<br />
alumni of Jackson State University, University Southern Mississippi and a<br />
graduate of Chapman University.
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