Amy Barrett, Maurice
Devitt, & Annemarie Ní
Churreáin for
November Over The Edge: Open Reading
The November ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, November 22nd, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Maurice Devitt, & Amy Barrett. There will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished; new readers are always especially welcome.
This month’s open-mic will include a showcase for poets currently studying on the MA in Writing at NUI Galway.
Amy Barrett is a creative writing student at NUI Galway. She is in her
third-year of studies and writes mostly poetry and novels. She is the winner of
the Windows National Poetry prize in 2015. She is now the Auditor of NUI Galway
Writers society. She lives in a small village in Co. Cavan called Kilnaleck.
Maurice Devitt completed
the MA in Poetry Studies at Mater Dei, won the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland
Competition and was placed or shortlisted in many other competitions including
The Patrick Kavanagh Award, The Listowel Collection Competition and Over The
Edge New Writer of The Year. Selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions in 2016,
he was a featured poet at the Poets in Transylvania Festival in 2015 and a
guest speaker at the John Berryman Centenary Conference in both Dublin and
Minneapolis. His poems have been nominated for Pushcart, Forward and Best of
the Net prizes. He is curator of the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies site.
Maurice’s debut collection of poems, Growing
Up In Colour, was published earlier this year by Doire Press.
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| Annemarie Ní Churreáin |
Annemarie Ní
Churreáin is a poet from Northwest Donegal. Her debut collection
Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for
best first collection in Ireland and for the 2018 Julie Suk Award in the U.S.A.
She is the author of a suite of poems about Dublin titled Town (The
Salvage Press, 2018). In 2016 Ní Churreáin was the recipient of
a Next Generation Artist Award by President Michael D. Higgins on behalf
of the Arts Council. She was the 2017-18 Kerry Writer In Residence and is the
recipient of the inaugural 2018-19 John Broderick Residency Award from the
Westmeath Arts Office. Ní Churreáin has been awarded literary fellowships from
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Jack Kerouac House Orlando and Hawthornden Castle
Scotland. Her poetry is taught as part of
the Writing Program at Florida Gulf Coast University. Ní Churreáin lives in Dublin. She is a member of the
Arts Council Writers in Prisons Scheme. In 2018-19 she is composing a libretto
for an upcoming opera production. Her second poetry collection is forthcoming.
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, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.
