Frank Dullaghan
The October ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in
Galway City Library on Thursday, October
31st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Sarah O’Toole, Margaret Brady & Frank Dullaghan. There will as usual be an open-mic
after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the winners in this
year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which received a large
number of entries again this year. This year’s competition judge is Sarah
Clancy.
Sarah O'Toole
hails from the West of Ireland and works as a theatre practitioner and
lecturer. She was the winner of the Aran Islands/Hillstead poetry competition
in 1997 and travelled to Connecticut to read at the Sunken Garden Poetry
Festival with other emerging poets from both sides of the Atlantic. Since
returning to her passion for poetry she has been published in Emerge Literary Journal, Crannóg and The Irish Left Review. She has also
written two plays which have been performed in Ireland - an adaptation of
Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" and an original piece "The Heroism
Hotline" co-written with Donnacha Bushe.
Margaret Brady grew up in 1960s
Dublin. An only child, she filled the long, lonely winter evenings curled up by
the fire with good books. Over the years she remained a voracious reader of
virtually every genre of book with a particular soft spot for science fiction.
She moved to Galway from Dublin as a trailing spouse nearly 20 years ago. It
was only meant to be for one year, but Galway seemed to be the perfect place to
raise children. She hasn't returned to Dublin yet. She shares her home with her
two college going children, an energetic dog and four and a half cats. She
has recently been a participant in creative writing classes at Galway Technical
Institute.
Frank Dullaghan is an Irish writer living
and working in Dubai since 2006. He holds an MA with Distinction in Writing
from the University of South Wales (previously Glamorgan). His poetry has been
widely published in UK and Irish journals. Prior to living in Dubai, Frank
lived in the UK where he was a co-founder of the Essex Poetry Festival and chaired the judging panel for The Young Essex Poet of the Year
competition. He was also editor of Seam
Poetry Magazine for many years. In Dubai, he has run workshops in poetry
and short story writing in schools, university and for various literary and
writing groups. He is a member of the spoken word platform Poeticians as well as the Dubai
Writers Group and the Emirates
Literary Group. Frank has two collections of poetry - On the Back of the Wind, 2008 and Enough Light to See the Dark, 2012 from Cinnamon Press - and two
collections of haiku published in the UK. His third poetry collection, A Slow Implosion of the Heart, is due
out from Cinnamon Press in September 2014.
As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured
Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The MC for the
evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.
