Gary Earl Ross and The Writer's Den



The Writer's Den


A site for writers, teachers, and lovers of good writing. . .
Fiction, poetry, and commentary by established and emerging authors. . .

Attention writers: Brief commentaries on the writing process, poems, short essays, and short short stories are welcome at this website and may be posted for visitors to read. Submit in HTML to the e-mail address below. There is no monetary compensation for participation in this idea exchange. Stories and essays copyright 1995-2006 Gary Earl Ross. Other copyrights held by individual authors. geross@buffalo.edu


Gary Earl Ross
Fiction Writer, Playwright, Essayist
Writing and Language Arts Professor, Educational Opportunity Center at Buffalo.
E-mail: geross@buffalo.edu


SUNY EOC at Buffalo / 465 Washington Street / Buffalo, NY 14203 / (716)849-6727 x119
Writer's Den Manuscript Consultations / 228 Highgate Avenue / Buffalo, NY 14215 / (716)308-0807
Just Buffalo Literary Center Writing Workshops/617 Main Street / Buffalo, NY 14203 /(716)832-5400


Member, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Board of Directors and Writers in Education program.
Member, Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAPACA), Board of Directors, 2006-07 President.

Adult workshops: What If...Introduction to Writing the Short Story; The Face of Fiction; Desire By Design--Writing Erotica; Strategies for the Writing Life; Playwriting.

Lecture topics: creative writing, classic murder cases, adult education, urban education, film history, writing strategies for teachers and parents, workplace writing strategies, family literacy.

Award-winning author of 170+ short stories, poems, articles, and public radio essays, as well as The Wheel of Desire and Other Intimate Hauntings(Writers Club Press), Shimmerville: Tales Macabre and Curious, (Writers Club Press), the children's book Dots, and the plays Sleepwalker: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (NextGen Publications), Matter of Intent, Picture Perfect (Lulu.com), and The Best Woman (Lulu.com).

All books are available at (or can be ordered through) Buffalo's premiere independent bookstore, Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main Street (near UB Main St Campus) and 951 Elmwood Avenue (near Bidwell).

Look for the short story "Dead Reckoning" in Medium of Murder. Look also for "Lucky She's Mine" in the erotic collection Intimacy, "I'll Pick You Up" in The Simple Pleasures of Friendship, "Gary's Mug" in Doing Good for Goodness' Sake, "Battle Babies" in Hello, Goodbye: Stories, Poems, and Essays for the 21st Century, "An Assassin's Tale" in Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers, "Honoring My Four Fathers" in Color Him Father from Kinship Press, and One Friday:Four Futures, Speculative Fictions about Health Care in Western New York, a Project of the Community Health Foundation.









For the Playbill article on the Edgar Awards, go to the News, Books, Plays link below.



And in 2007 . . .
from the Tennessee Stage Company of Knoxville and Ujima Theatre Company of Buffalo

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The forthcoming anthology NICKEL CITY NIGHTS, EROTIC WRITING IN WESTERN NEW YORK, is seeking work from writers born or based in the Buffalo-Niagara region, southern Ontario, the southern tier, and any other area that can be described as WNY. Author/editor Gary Earl Ross welcomes submissions of fiction and creative non-fiction (3,000 words max), poetry (three poems max, 30 lines per or some variation for 90 lines max), and drama (standard Drama Guild format, excerpts and short plays up to five pages). Black and white photos will be considered; nudity and poses are fine but obvious porn shots will be rejected. All submissions should be erotic or "hot" but not pornographic. The careful writer or photographer will know the difference (plot, setting, character development, erotic tension, verbal and photographic artistry). Pieces need not be set in WNY. They may be humorous or serious, fantasy or mystery, historical or mainstream, May-December, first love, elder sex, gay, straight, bi-, group--any expression of human sexuality. There is no room for work that celebrates sex with animals or the dead (except maybe sexy vampires), glorifies rape or sexual violence, or depicts sex with children (first kiss tales are okay). Depending upon funding, contributors will be paid a modest honorarium and receive one copy of the finished book. Pseudonyms are permitted but no anonymous pieces will be accepted. All contributors must be at least 18 and all photographers must provide a model's release form attesting that models in photos are also at least 18. All contributors will be invited to participate in a publication party/reading/display. All submissions must be made by email. Writing should be in a Word file with the title of the piece as the name of the file and sent as an attachment. All photographs should be sent as jpeg attachments. Email all submissions to Gary Earl Ross at geross@buffalo.edu. Submission deadline: September 1, 2008. Projected publication date: December 1, 2008. Come back to The Writer's Den for updates on the progress of the anthology.


Last Updated July 3, 2008

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One Friday: Four Futures --The Future of Health Care in WNY, by Gary Earl Ross
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