Australian Over 31s young writer Conor Ryan from Adelaide has won the 2020 Australian Over 31s Basil Sellers Award presented at the annual young writers conference on the Gold Coast on Saturday.
The Awards are presented at 4.00pm of the conference each year – there are a number of awards but with Covid 19 restrictions many were unable to attend in 2020.
Each of the Australian Over 31s young writers in the Press Service International program in conjunction with Christian Today sent in their BEST article for the five Panellists to mark out of 25 - the 25 mark was chosen as in previous years there have been too many multiple winners out of 10 marks.
The Australian Over 31s Panellists
Ashley Saunders - CEO Barnabas Fund Australia
Tim McDonald - Government
John Skinner - 25 years Journalist
Colin Miles - IT Business
Margaret Pearce - ret school teacher
The Australian Over 31s young writers are slotted into Week 5 in the program’s
Week 5 - editor Peter Brookshaw (Salvation Army)
Conor Ryan
Conor’s winning article was titled - Mystical union with Christ
https://www.christiantoday.com.au/news/mystical-union-with-christ.html
Conor is from Adelaide, South Australia. He has a history degree from Tabor College and has a gardening business. Conor has played in Christian heavy metal band Synnove. He is involved in Operation Canaan, a ministry that prays and intercedes for the music scene.
He loves God, music, reading, traveling and thinking deeply about philosophy and current events in the world.
Conor Ryan’s previous articles may be viewed at www.pressserviceinternational.org/conor-ryan.html
Dr Mark Tronson - a 4 min video
Chairman – Well-Being Australia
Baptist Minister 45 years
- 1984 - Australian cricket team chaplain 17 years (Ret)
- 2001 - Life After Cricket (18 years Ret)
- 2009 - Olympic Ministry Medal – presented by Carl Lewis
- 2019 - The Gutenberg - (ARPA Christian Media premier award)
Gutenberg video - 2min 14sec
Married to Delma for 45 years with 4 children and 6 grand children
