2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year LONGLIST

2013 OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

LONGLIST

Sheila Armstrong, Dublin

for her stories 'To Come Home' & 'Badhbh'

Bernie Ashe, Galway 

for 'Crow' & other poems

Eileen Bennett, Co, Galway

for her story 'John Byrne Rides Again'

Patricia Bennett, Fermanagh

for her story 'The Chapel of Ease'

Nora Brennan, Kilkenny

for 'Moon' & other poems 

Stephanie Brennan, Co. Galway

for 'Points West' & other poems

Marie Cadden, Co. Galway 

for 'Disturbing The Queen' & other poems

Margaret Cahill, Limerick

for her story 'Moving In'

Alvy Carragher, Galway

for her story 'What Sarah Knows' & 'Broken Symmetry' & other poems

Lesley Cassidy, Galway

for her stories 'Turquoise', ' & 'Sally' &; also for 'Diagnosis' & other poems

Miriam Clyne, Galway

for 'Where are the Voices?' & other poems

Brian Colgan, Galway 

for 'From Babi Yar to Bethlehem'

Teresa Coleman, Mayo

for her story 'Elizabeth'

Denis Collins, Wexford 

for 'Pete' & other poems

Stephanie Conn, Antrim 

from 'When you leave' & other poems

Chris Connolly, Dublin

for his story 'Fake Plastic Trees'

Rachel Coventry, Galway

for 'Like her Grandmother' & other poems

Bernie Crawford, Co. Galway

for 'Fear of Mothering' & other poems

Kate Dempsey, Kildare

for 'What Does Larry Do' & other poems

Maurice Devitt, Dublin 

for 'A Stranger in the House' & other poems

Cal Doyle 

for 'The Heist' & other poems

Kevin Doyle, Cork

for his story 'Whatever It Was About Men'

Dagmar Drabent, Galway 

for 'Time life' & other poems

Judy Drazin, Bristol, UK

for 'Odile's Song' & other poems

Paul Duffy, Wicklow

for his story 'The Vapour's Project'

Elizabeth Dulcie, Torquay, UK

for her story 'Crusing By Numbers'

Kate Ennals, Cavan

for 'What ever you say...say nothing' & other poems

Niall Foley, Edinburgh

for his story 'Phone call from the West of Ireland'

Erin Fornoff, Dublin

for 'On Planes' & other poems

Sean Glynn,  Co. Galway

for his story 'Hackett's Hole'

Sandra Harris, Dublin

for her stories 'The Miracle At Saint Mary's' & 'A Death'

Mary Healy, Kilkenny 

for her story 'What's Worth Keeping'

Meriel Heather, Dublin

for 'King' and other poems

Brian Hefferan, Mayo

for his story 'Adrift In Summer's Time'

Phyl Herbert, Dublin

for his story 'R-E-V-O-L-V-E'

Patrick Hewitt, Dublin

for 'Why?'

Aidan Hynes, Dublin

for his stories 'Confetti On The Moon' & 'Hair'

Anne Irwin, Galway

for 'The Stations of the Crossbar' & other poems

Katherine Janeczeck, Galway 

for 'Genesis' & other poems

Rupert Jenkins, Scotland

for his story 'Tender To The Shore'

Eileen Keane, Kildare

for her story 'Freezing Rasberries' 

Lorraine Kelly, Galway

for her story 'The Wait'

Susan Kelly, Mayo

for 'Mother Superior' & other poems

Gary King, Galway

for his story 'The Returned'

Brian Kirk, Dublin 

for his story 'The Creaseless Society'

Tom Lavelle, Galway 

for 'How I Talk To God' & other poems

Brian Leeson, Belfast

for his story 'Return To Benevenagh'

Philippa Maguire, Co. Galway

for 'Dinner' & other poems

Jennifer Matthews, Cork

for 'Planning Permission' & other poems

Mari Maxwell, Co. Galway

for her story 'Equal Commisson'

Anna McCarthy, New York

for her story 'An Inventory of Slights'

Deirdre McClay, Donegal

for her story 'Traps'

Pat McDonnell, Galway

for his story 'Three Sisters in the Sky'

Christopher Meehan, Co. Galway 

for 'The Ever Changing Definition of Youth in Revolt'

Sighle Meehan, Galway

for 'Gatsby Girl' & other poems

Mary McGill, Dublin 

for her story 'The Cat's Mother'

Jennifer McGowan, Oxfordshire, UK 

for 'Penelope' & other poems

Louis Mulcahy, Kerry 

for 'Good Deed' & other poems

Maeve Mulrennan, Galway

for her story 'Cradle'

Brendan Murphy, Co. Galway

for his story'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Sinner'

Catherine Myddleton-Evans, London, UK

for 'under the sea' & other poems

Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin, Galway

for 'Tribe' & other poems

Michael Naghten-Shanks, Dublin 

for 'Rape / Reaction / Result' & other poems

Katherine Noone, Galway

for 'Home' & other poems

Gerard O’Brien, Co. Galway

for his story 'Nissen Hut'

Kerrie O’Brien, Dublin

for 'Scar' & other poems'

Jessamine O’Connor, Sligo

for 'Adults' & other poems

Patrick G. O’Connor, Limerick

for his story 'Concrete and Tulips'

Anita Ouellette, Massachusetts, USA 

for 'Almost Afraid To Talk To God While Others Are Listening'

Clare O’Reilly, Kildare 

for her story 'Hey Presto!' and 'With Mercy' & other poems

Eleanor O’Reilly, Wicklow

for her story 'Classifieds, Fags And Coconut Creams'

Kevin O’Shea, Co. Galway

for his story 'Marked'

Micheál Ó’Síocháin, Cork

for his story 'The Last Days of The Pavilion'

Maeve O’Sullivan, Dublin 

for 'Agent of Confusion' & other poems

James O’Toole, Galway

for 'Bad Jobs' and other poems

Sarah O’Toole, Galway 

for 'After the world had ended' and other poems

Christine Painter, Galway 

for 'Remember' & other poems

Valerie Ryan, Kildare

for her story 'The Postman'

Breda Wall Ryan, Wicklow

for 'Inheritors' & other poems

Rejini Samuel, Galway

for her story 'The Alleyway'

Ashlie Schweitzer, Galway

for her story 'Prairie Lights'

Fiona Scoble, Galway

for her story 'What have you brought for us?'

Maresa Sheehan, Carlow

for 'second son' & other poems

Alan M. Shine, Galway

for his story 'The Grave of Charles W. Spencer'

Breda Spaight, Limerick

for 'Final Cut' & other poems

Ekaterina Tikhoniouk, Laois

for her story 'Katie'

Evelyn Walsh, Dublin

for her story 'The Rose of Tralee'

Bogusia Wardein, Cracow, Poland

for 'Ode to Dust' & other poems

Deborah Watkins, Co. Galway 

for 'The Proposal' & other poems

Alison Wells, Wicklow

for her stories 'The Memory-Jar' & 'The Spaceman has his tea'

Dimitra Xidous, Dublin

for 'The science of hands' & other poems

We would like to thank our competition sponsors: 

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

ISupply Flood Street, Ward’s Hotel,

Kenny’s Bookshop & Derek Nolan T.D

Competition judge Sarah Clancy

 THE SHORTLIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED @

The Over The Edge open-mic event

@ Kenny’s  Bookshop & Art Gallery, Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road, Galway

Friday, September 20^th, 7pm

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED

@ the October Over The Edge: Open Reading

in Galway City Library,

Thurs October 31^st, 6.30-8pm

TAKING BOOKINGS NOW GMIT presents Creative Writing for Beginners with Susan Millar DuMars STARTING IN SEPTEMBER

 

In September GMIT is offering a course in Creative Writing for Beginners with Susan Millar DuMars. The course takes place at GMIT Dublin Road Campus one evening per week (Wednesday) for 7 weeks from 7–9p.m. It commences on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013. Advance booking is essential. The course fee is €95.

During the seven weeks Susan Millar DuMars will give support, instruction and feedback to students who are interested in writing either fiction (short stories, novels) or poetry. The class will work on techniques for forming ideas and getting started; engaging the reader’s senses; using figures of speech effectively; being alert to the importance of the sound of words, the rhythm of writing; how to manage the truth in a fictitious piece; the different forms of poetry; awareness of character and point of view in fiction; editing and polishing work. Whether the student seeks publication, self-expression, a rewarding hobby (or possibly all three), this course is a wonderful place to start.

For further details or to book a place contact GMIT, Dublin Road, Galway. Telephone 091 742145, email lifelonglearning@gmit.ie or see http://www.gmit.ie/lifelong-learning/lifelong-learning-programmes/humanities/creative-writing-for-beginners.html

Course Tutor:

Susan Millar DuMars’ debut poetry collection, Big Pink Umbrella, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008.  Her next collection, Dreams for Breakfast, appeared in April 2010.  Her work features in Landing Places, Dedalus’ 2010 anthology of immigrant poetry written in Ireland; and also in The Best Of Irish Poetry 2010.  A fiction writer as well, she published a collection of short stories, American Girls, with Lapwing in 2007.  She published a book of short stories in 2010: Lights in the Distance, published by Doire Press. She has been the recipient of an Arts Council Literature Bursary. Susan's third collection of poetry, The God Thing, was published by Salmon Poetry in March. She lives in Galway, where she and her husband have run the Over the Edge readings series since 2003.

AUTUMN POETRY WORKSHOPS AT GALWAY ARTS CENTRE WITH KEVIN HIGGINS

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet. Kevin’s second collection of poems, TimeGentlemen, Please, was published in 2008 by Salmon Poetry and his poetry is discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry. His third collection Frightening New Furniture was published in 2010 by Salmon and his work also appears in the generation defining anthologyIdentity Parade –New British and Irish Poets (Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). A collection of Kevin’s essays and book reviews, Mentioning The War, was published in 2012 by Salmon Poetry. His next collection of poetry, The Ghost in The Lobby, will be published in early 2014, also by Salmon. 

Kevin is a highly experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students have gone on to achieve publication success. One of his workshop participants at Galway Arts Centre won the prestigious Hennessy Award forNew Irish Poetry, two have won the Cúirt New Writing Prize, one has been awarded an Arts Council Bursary and yet another won the Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam, while several have published collections of their poems. Kevin is also co-organiser of the successful Over The Edge reading series which specialises in promoting new writers. 

Each workshop will run for ten weeks, commencing the week of September 23^rd. They will take place on Tuesday evenings, 7-8.30pm (first class September 24^th), Thursday afternoons, 2-4pm (first class September 26^th); and on Friday afternoons, 2-3.30pm (first class September 27^th). 

The Tuesday evening and Friday afternoon workshops are open to both complete beginners as well as those who’ve been writing for some time. The Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced Poetry Workshop, suitable for those who’ve participated in poetry workshops before or had poems published in magazines. The cost to participants is €110, with a concession rate. 

Places must be paid for in advance. To reserve a place contact reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886 or email info@galwayartscentre.ie