June
Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by Karen McDonnell, Eamonn
Lynskey, Anne Tannam, & Maeve Mulrennan & the Galway launch of June Caldwell’s debut short story collection. The event will take
place on Thursday, June 29th, 8pm at the Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway.
All are welcome. There is no cover charge.
June Caldwell
worked for many years as a freelance journalist and now writes fiction. Room Little Darker, a short story
collection, was published by New Island Books in May 2017. Her short story
‘SOMAT’ was published in the award-winning anthology The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinéad Gleeson and was chosen as
a ‘favourite’ by The Sunday Times.
She’s a prizewinner of the Moth International Short Story Prize and has
been shortlisted for many others, including the Calvino Prize in Fabulist
Fiction, the Colm ToÃbÃn International Short Story Award, the Lorian Hemingway
Prize, and the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize. She has
an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast, and lives
in Dublin.
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| June Caldwell |
Bred, buttered and living in Dublin, Anne Tannam's first book of poetry Take This Life, was published by WordsOnTheStreet in 2011. Her
second collection Tides ShiftingAcross My Sitting Room Floor is just published by Salmon Poetry. A spoken
word artist, Anne has performed her work at Lingo, Electric Picnic, Cuirt and
other festivals around Ireland and is co-founder of the renowned Dublin
Writers' Forum.
Eamonn Lynskey’s poetry first
appeared in the New Irish Writing pages of the Irish Press in the 1980s,
edited by David Marcus, and since then widely in magazines and journals such Poetry
Ireland Review, Cyphers, The SHOp, Crannóg, The Stony Thursday Book, The
Stinging Fly, Boyne Berries, Orbis, Riposte Broadsheet and the Irish
Times. He was a finalist in the Strokestown International Poetry
Competition and in the Hennessy Awards. He has been involved in the
organization of poetry events in Dublin for many years and has presented poetry
programmes on local radio. He obtained an M. Phil in Creative Writing from
Trinity College Dublin in 2012 and participated in the 2013 Stanza Poetry
Festival in St. Andrews in Scotland. Before retirement he worked as a teacher
and Adult Education organizer. Eamonn’s
third collection of poetry, It’s Time,
is just published by Salmon Poetry.
Maeve Mulrennan is a
curator and writer based in Galway. She is the Head of Visual Art + Education
in Galway Arts Centre, where she has worked since 2006. This role includes
exhibitions, critical writing, residencies and education programming. In 2008
she founded Red Bird Youth Collective, which is now a youth led art collective
working in visual art, architecture, animation and film. Maeve has been on the
Board of Directors of Tulca Festival of Visual Art since 2006. Maeve lectures on
the MA Arts Policy & Practice in Huston School of Digital Media, NUI Galway
and is an online-Lecturer with NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin.
Maeve is a short story writer, with fiction published in several online
journals, The Doire Press 2013 Anthology and The Galway Review.
She read at the 2012 Cúirt Festival / Over The Edge showcase reading.
Karen J. McDonnell grew up in
Ennis. She spent many years in Dublin working in international banking and as
an actress before returning to live in the Burren in north Clare. As a mature
student at NUI Galway, she focused increasingly on writing, including Notes
from the Margins, a poetic song cycle about women on the edges of history, and
literary non-fiction: Unsettled — a West Bank Journal. She won the
2014 WOW Poetry Award and was runner up in the 2015 Wild Atlantic Words and the
2015 Baffle poetry competitions. She was shortlisted for the 2017 Poems for
Patience Award. Karen’s debut collection of poems This Little World is just published by Doire Press.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
financial support of the Arts Council,
Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.
