Niamh Boyce and Liz McSkeane Featured Readers & Judges at Eleventh Annual
Over The Edge Fiction Slam at The Kitchen @ The Museum
Over The Edge presents its eleventh annual fiction slam with Featured Readers, Liz McSkeane and Niamh Boyce, at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish, Galway on Friday, June 28th, 8pm.
Over The Edge presents its eleventh annual fiction slam with Featured Readers, Liz McSkeane and Niamh Boyce, at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish, Galway on Friday, June 28th, 8pm.
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| Liz McSkeane |
Liz McSkeane born in Scotland of Scottish and Irish
parents and has lived in Dublin since 1981. She is an award-winning novelist,
poet and short story writer. Her début novel, Canticle, was a winner in the Irish Writers' Centre/Greenbean Novel
Fair of 2016. In 2011, she was an Irish
Writers’ Centre Lonely Voice winner and in 1999, she won the Hennessy New Irish
Writer of the Year. Liz has three poetry
collections and her poetry and short stories have been published in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Irish
Pages, The Shop, Stinging Fly, Orbis, Stepaway, Gutter Magazine, The Lea-Green Down and others. In 2016, Liz set up her own small
press, Turas Press, which published six books during 2016-18,with a further four scheduled for 2019.
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| Niamh Boyce |
Niamh Boyce was named Newcomer of the Year at the
2013 Irish Book Awards for The Herbalist, her first novel ('The most
entertaining yet substantial historical novel since Joseph O'Connor's Star of
the Sea' Irish Times) which was also a Number One bestseller. She won the 2012
Hennesssy XO New Irish Writer Of The
Year Award and Emerging Poetry Award for her poem 'Kitty'. Her short fiction
has been widely published in anthologies. Her
Kind is her second novel and has been called 'Enthralling' by the Irish
Examiner while the Sunday Independent described it as “'Masterful
... Boyce delicately unfolds this atmospheric, magical thriller with pace and
juice, while also making sure that the sentiments (vilification of women,
policing of female biology, etc) echo through time'.
The first twelve fiction
writers to make it to The Kitchen @ The Museum on the evening of Friday, June 28th
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 Niamh Boyce, Liz McSkeane and an audience member. Three writers will go
through to the second round and the prize for the winner is a bottle of excellent
red 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.
