Gerald Ryan
Jerry Ryan is an award winning freelance writer and has produced weekly columns for the Courier Sun and monthly columns for Windy City Sports in Chicago, Twin City Sports in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Metro Sports in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. He has regularly contributed to the Chicago Amateur Athlete, the Liberty Suburban Chicago Newspapers, and has produced and aired weekly radio spots for WDCB-FM in Glen Ellyn, IL.
Jerry has had poetry published in The Prairie Light Review, won the Mountainland Publishing Poetry Grand Prize; received an award for the best U.S entry in the Fifth International Poetry Contest in the Firstwriter.com Magazine; won Second Place Prize in the Grand Opening Contest for OneStopWriteShop.com.
He has also won the Short-Short Story award in the national humor magazine, the Funny Paper.
In May 2007, St. Martins Press published the short story, “A.K.A.”, in the anthology, Next Stop Hollywood; Short Stories Bound for the Screen.
Read an on-line interviews at: http://www.firstwriter.com/newsletter/archive/2007/fwn50.htm#article3
http://ambasadora.livejournal.com/152776.html
Please visit his website at www.geraldoryan.com and visit the web sites below to view samples of his work.
www.windycitysports.com (Search>Cycling)
www.mountainlandpublishing.com/awards/pavlov_poets.html
(http://www.firstwriter.com/competitions/poetry_competition/previous_winners/5thpoetry.shtml)
http://www.onestopwriteshop.com/showwriting.php?writingid=531
http://nextstophollywood.org/
Contest Winner!
The Beast Sinister
Part #1 in Issue #2 (April 2008)
Part #2 in Issue #3 (May 2008)
Part #3 in Issue #4 (June 2008)
Fescher then drew himself to full height and faced the Bishop, fixing him and the new settlers in his gaze. Fescher stood before the assembled Goodmen, closed his eyes, and entered into a trance. Words came from above us, below us, all around us as he began his incantation.
“Wytus! As day turns to night and light flees before approach of dark, you shall hear the howls and feel the wrath of the Beast Sinister when the two moons rise. He shall be tasked with my will that you and your people shall suffer his fury until you depart these lands!”
