Chris Ryan | Atlantic Books Today

Features, Web exclusives April 20, 2015 July 2, 2015

Atlantic books hit the big screen

by Alissa MacDougall

Following the nation-wide success of Lesley Crewe’s Relative Happiness, more Atlantic books are making the transition to the film

The Bay Bulls Standoff Chris Ryan Flanker Press

News, Web exclusives March 4, 2015 June 17, 2015

Flanker Press Book Optioned by Toronto Production Company

by Kim Hart Macneill

Flanker Press is pleased to announce that its books, The Bay Bulls Standoff by Chris Ryan (2014), has been optioned by Unstoppable Urges Productions in Toronto. On December 4, 2010, Leo Crockwell, fifty-five, an electrical technician and lifetime resident of Bay Bulls, barricaded himself in his mother’s house in Bay Bulls after an altercation with his sister involving a firearm. Chris “Dutch” Ryan, a friend and…

Columns, Read Local 2015, Web exclusives January 9, 2015 July 7, 2015

Read Local 2015: A dialogue driven account of one man’s battle with the RCMP

by Kim Hart Macneill

This story offers author Chris Ryan’s recollections of an eight-day, armed standoff between Leo Crockwell and the RCMP that played out in the fishing community of Bay Bulls, Newfoundland and Labrador

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