Aiden O’Reilly Featured Reader & Judge at Seventh Annual Over The
Edge Fiction Slam at The Kitchen @ The Museum
After the event’s huge success in the past six years, Over The Edge presents its seventh annual fiction slam with Featured Reader, Aiden O’Reilly, at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish, Galway on Friday, October 16th, 8pm.
After the event’s huge success in the past six years, Over The Edge presents its seventh annual fiction slam with Featured Reader, Aiden O’Reilly, at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish, Galway on Friday, October 16th, 8pm.
Aiden
O’Reilly’s short story collection Greetings, Hero was published by
Honest Publishing UK in 2014, and launched in London and in Dublin. Aiden lived
for nine years in Eastern Europe. He has worked as a mathematics lecturer,
translator, building-site worker, and sub-editor for a property magazine. His
fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, The
Irish Times, Prairie Schooner, 3am magazine, Unthology 4 and
in several other anthologies. His plays have been given professional staged
readings at The Triskel in Cork, and in Dublin. He won the biannual McLaverty
Short Story Award in 2008. In 2012 he received a bursary from the Arts Council.
The first twelve fiction writers to make it to The
Kitchen @ The Museum on the evening of Friday, October 16th and
register will be guaranteed a place in the slam. If you want to be sure of a
place, get there early! All participating writers should bring two pieces of
their own fiction, as there are two rounds. The time limit in both rounds is
five minutes. Extracts from longer stories are admissible. Stories do not have
to be memorised. The Fiction Slam will be judged by a three person jury made up
of two audience members and Aiden O’Reilly. Three writers will go through to
the second round and the prize for the winner is a bottle of wine.
There is no entrance fee. All welcome.
For further information contact 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland and Galway City Council.
