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.
Playwright in Residence, Ujima Company, Inc.

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, plays, and public radio essays. Books and plays include: Nickel City Nights: Erotic Writing in WNY (editor--published by the Writers Den), The Wheel of Desire and Other Intimate Hauntings(Writers Club Press), Shimmerville: Tales Macabre and Curious, (Writers Club Press), the children's book Dots (ECFHP), and the plays Sleepwalker: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (NextGen Publications), Picture Perfect (Writer's Den), and The Best Woman (Writer's Den), and Matter of Intent (publication pending), winner of the Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Award and the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America.

COMING in 2009: Blackbird Rising: A Novel of the American Spirit (Full Court Press)

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.






From Ujima Company, Inc. (Buffalo, 2005)



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


From 2007:
Tennessee Stage Company (Knoxville)----------------Ujima Company, Inc. (Buffalo)

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