Paul McVeigh |
The May ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library
on Thursday, May 26th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are
Paul McVeigh, Una Mannion, & Sandra Coffey. There will as usual be an
open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially
welcome.
Sandra
Coffey is a
writer from Athenry, county Galway. She has been published in Crannóg, Honest
Ulsterman, Incubator Journal, Silver Apples, Lampeter Review, Galway Review,
ROPES and ‘Around the Farm Gate’ a collection of rural stories published by
Ballpoint Press, RTE and the Farmer’s Journal. She was longlisted for the
2015 writing.ie Bord
Gais Energy Irish Short Story of the Year. She works as a journalist for the
Galway Independent. She tweets at @SandraCoffey
Una
Mannion teaches
Performing Arts in IT Sligo. In March 2016, her poetry was published in the New
Irish Writing page in The Irish Times and her fiction was shortlisted for the
Cúirt New Writing Prize. She won the Yeats' Society's Seamus Heaney Prize and
came second place in Dromineer Flash Fiction 2015. She has been
shortlisted in the Listowel, Bridport, Fish Memoir and other competitions. She
is currently completing an MA in Writing at NUI Galway. She lives in Sligo with
her husband and three children.
Born in
Belfast, Paul McVeigh is an award-winning writer whose
work has been performed on stage and radio, published in print and
been translated into French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He began
his career as a playwright before moving to London where he wrote
comedy shows, which were performed at the Edinburgh Festival and in
London’s West End. His short stories have been published in literary
journals and anthologies, read on BBC Radio 5 and commissioned by BBC
Radio 4. He is the Co-Founder of London Short Story Festival, of
which, he was the Director and Curator for 2014 & ’15. He is Associate Director
at Word Factory, the UK’s premier short story salon. The Good Son
is his first novel and was shortlisted for The Authors’ Club Best First
Novel Award, nominated for The People’s Book Prize, and shortlisted for The
Guardian’s ‘Not The Booker’ Prize 2015. It was published in France in
April 2016 and is a major German release for Autumn 2016. Paul received
The McCrea Literary Award in 2015.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.