tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371962822024-03-05T17:28:40.036+00:00Over The EdgeGALWAY CITY'S LITERARY EVENTS ORGANISATION:Serving writers and literature fans in the Galway area-poetry readings,fiction readings,poetry workshops, creative writing classes, info on all literature events in Galway City & surrounds. Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comBlogger957125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-11779793921271560062023-01-02T20:41:00.004+00:002023-01-02T20:44:57.036+00:00Over The Edge Celebrates 20th Birthday at January 2023 Over The Edge: Open Reading featuring Ferdia Mac Anna, Terri Metcalfe, & Séan Gibbons <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over The Edge Celebrates 20<sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup>
Birthday at January 2023 Over The Edge: Open Reading featuring</span></b><u><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE"> </span></u><b><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ferdia Mac Anna, Terri Metcalfe,<span class="ContentPasted0" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& Séan Gibbons PLUS open-mic including SHOWCASE
of poets from the 2022/23 MA in Writing<span class="ContentPasted0" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at University of Galway. </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE">The
January ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place at Galway City Library on <b class="ContentPasted0">Thursday, January 26th</b> at the new usual Over The Edge time 6pm-7.30pm.
The Featured Readers are <b class="ContentPasted0">Séan Gibbons,
Terri Metcalfe,</b> & </span><b><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE">Ferdia Mac Anna</span></b><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE">. There will, as
usual, be an open-mic which this month will include a Showcase of some of the
poets on this year’s MA in Writing at the University of Galway. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NAR8DTBO5gwmUvKxd-uqQjuMHiqTIP4he12d-0Fqi5y_zq807C4dLQ2li07AGnkXzDG20lVVTtLElBuEfGzgQGNSQ3bL3Ng3sei8IvLY4N_3yDlwxN8rfqsD3O1jQESutdiV14xz0OdS7VspIryQFBxV0wOfEka3Q4fhfSJ5rwb6avlJ1A/s1300/11720755-number-twenty-golden-laurel-wreath-with-the-number-twenty-inside.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="1300" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NAR8DTBO5gwmUvKxd-uqQjuMHiqTIP4he12d-0Fqi5y_zq807C4dLQ2li07AGnkXzDG20lVVTtLElBuEfGzgQGNSQ3bL3Ng3sei8IvLY4N_3yDlwxN8rfqsD3O1jQESutdiV14xz0OdS7VspIryQFBxV0wOfEka3Q4fhfSJ5rwb6avlJ1A/s320/11720755-number-twenty-golden-laurel-wreath-with-the-number-twenty-inside.webp" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE">This
reading celebrates a historic TWENTY YEARS since the first ever Over The Edge
reading in Galway City Library, during which two decades Over The Edge has had
a transformative effect on the literary scene in the West of Ireland and
nationally. There will be a birthday cake to celebrate Over The Edge’s status
as (easily) the longest running and most influential literary reading series in
Ireland. There will be a bit of a party afterwards. But the entire evening will
in a sense be a party. This is not one to miss. </span></span></span></span><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The MC for the
evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu_GQbSgWs8s1SPGba4sF5LgvpO4H0eYMUwDGWD3cnZ4VO_yl3e0lrAX3E4OG997DQwqy15fqVSpXdaqCI5sFXzslwM7J_hJX6ZQfnvpH2XwwWRiJqZWc7aooin7-o1IKqobGu12bUCCm_iar7O0sHVUsLG0Kc2K0bUCHgXtOnLhQwZEHf3g/s960/Ferdia%20Mac%20Anna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="733" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu_GQbSgWs8s1SPGba4sF5LgvpO4H0eYMUwDGWD3cnZ4VO_yl3e0lrAX3E4OG997DQwqy15fqVSpXdaqCI5sFXzslwM7J_hJX6ZQfnvpH2XwwWRiJqZWc7aooin7-o1IKqobGu12bUCCm_iar7O0sHVUsLG0Kc2K0bUCHgXtOnLhQwZEHf3g/w488-h640/Ferdia%20Mac%20Anna.jpg" width="488" /></a></div> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="GA" style="mso-ansi-language: GA;">Ferdia Mac Anna</span></b><span lang="GA" style="mso-ansi-language: GA;"> was born in Dublin. He has worked as a television
producer/director, journalist, magazine editor and novelist.At present, he
lectures in Screenwriting and DCU and ACD and facilitates Creative Writing
courses. He has directed feature Films, short films, documentaries and TV
Dramas. Hisfeature film ‘DannyBoy’won Best Film at Birmingham Film Festival and
has just been released worldwide on various online platforms.He was producer
and script editor on the BAFTA winning children’s drama series, ‘Custer’s Last
Stand-Up’ (BBC 2000-2002) and ‘Seacht’ (2007, TG4).</span><span lang="GA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="GA" style="mso-ansi-language: GA;">For some years he toured Ireland as lead singer and songwriter with first
Rocky De Valera and the Gravediggers (1977-79/2005-2008) and Rocky de Valera
and The Rhythm Kings (1980-83). Now and then, he still rock and rolls. He has
written<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three novels , ‘The Last of the
High Kings’ (made into a Hollywood movie starring Gabriel Byrne, Jared Leto and
Christina Ricci), ‘The Ship Inspector’and ‘Cartoon City’ </span><span lang="GA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="GA" style="mso-ansi-language: GA;">as well as two memoirs, ‘Baldhead’(Raven
Arts) and ‘The Rocky Years’ (Hodder Headline, 2006). He has written one poem.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="GA" style="mso-ansi-language: GA;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUz8v5Ws-q421YJVestHQ1VrNdo6G7A05uuMN8sJaJh48F9M9_z1u55_IEKYZRNaKGKQsX9bC-xXyrFsnyHLxBNwyEU0UVJ_L8rNcEKM36MbtHxNCRjY2NFuDHqR8tD_8ART5dB79jYOvOZ5j4Q7qGOVGvcw1exf1wcbZmhS5ENegr6BZyyw/s400/Terri%20Metcalfe.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUz8v5Ws-q421YJVestHQ1VrNdo6G7A05uuMN8sJaJh48F9M9_z1u55_IEKYZRNaKGKQsX9bC-xXyrFsnyHLxBNwyEU0UVJ_L8rNcEKM36MbtHxNCRjY2NFuDHqR8tD_8ART5dB79jYOvOZ5j4Q7qGOVGvcw1exf1wcbZmhS5ENegr6BZyyw/s320/Terri%20Metcalfe.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cumbria native <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Terri Metcalfe</b> moved to Ireland with her Mayo born partner and two
children in 2019. Considering herself from a down-to-earth, tools of the
practical trade family, she only recently in her forties thought it acceptable
that she might be a serious poet. She had an impressive total of eighteen poems
published during 2022, her first year of sending her work out, in publications
such as Abridged, A New Ulster, Skylight 47 and Green Ink Poetry.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHxwjXmiBoLVA5P6BztJ701Dvyw8CvxLffx7Wc-7vYfj35jigDIOEREYfHspn3MXrewT9LwUDmXOYV2uWZPQoRFLZGDGOdeYwc3XwG3xawxPFt_qh6fxOmdS_yurqrJfeuptu7nEEHBl2I77jxe_AXcixv2MsU_x4rJKYliw-Jjp6BU8c3w/s600/Sean%20Gibbons%20A-Deadly-Calling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUHxwjXmiBoLVA5P6BztJ701Dvyw8CvxLffx7Wc-7vYfj35jigDIOEREYfHspn3MXrewT9LwUDmXOYV2uWZPQoRFLZGDGOdeYwc3XwG3xawxPFt_qh6fxOmdS_yurqrJfeuptu7nEEHBl2I77jxe_AXcixv2MsU_x4rJKYliw-Jjp6BU8c3w/w266-h400/Sean%20Gibbons%20A-Deadly-Calling.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seán Gibbons</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, the father of three adult
children, originally from Galway City, now lives with his partner in Wexford in
the sunny South East of Ireland. He is a graduate of the National University of
Ireland, Galway and Brunel University, London. After a career spent mostly in
youth work and social care, Seán is at last able to indulge his lifelong
passion for writing. In the early 2000’s he spent four years driving a taxi in
Galway and it was from this experience that his unconventional, taxi-driving
crime-solver, Ben Miller, gained life. Along with writing crime fiction and
historical thrillers, Seán is also an award-winning playwright and film-maker. When
not writing, Seán is a patient, often frustrated, and always passionate
supporter of Galway United FC, his hometown League of Ireland club. There are
four books so far in Sean’s ‘Ben Miller’ series, each dealing with gritty
contemporary issues yet written with a darkly humorous touch. Each book sees
taxi-driver Ben Miller become unwillingly involved in situations, including
murder, people-trafficking, prostitution and the illegal drugs trade that blur
the distinctions between good and evil, as well as dealing with his own issues,
including possible autism. The character of corrupt Gárda Superintendent Martin
Folan features prominently in the Galway-set stories, each one of which is
based on experiences the author had whilst working as a taxi-driver in the
city.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The MC for the evening
will be Susan Millar DuMars. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>As
usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always particularly welcome. <b>Those interested in reading at the
open-mic should give their names to one of the Over The Edge volunteers at
Galway City Library before the reading starts at 6pm.</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The reading will also be broadcast
live via Over The Edge’s Facebook page </span></b><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521</span></b></a></span></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The
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<![endif]-->Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-67093943924647530892022-11-27T11:19:00.004+00:002022-11-27T20:57:38.038+00:00Final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022 with Bill Heaney, Abby Oliveira, Marc Gregg PLUS open-mic <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The December
‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on <b>Thursday, December 15<sup>th</sup></b>,
6.00pm-7.30pm. The Featured Readers are <b>Marc
Gregg, Abby Oliveira</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">,</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> &</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">
Bill Heaney</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">. There
will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers. New
readers are especially welcome. The Over The Edge end of year celebration will take
place afterwards. There will, we understand, be mince pies. You are invited to
come and mark the end of the strange year that has been 2022 with Over The
Edge. There will be a surprise or two. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg510zhmmP7oWasrm9Nqw0pHNLz-0maiaMSRKDIIufnuxx8D5ysAIduxYTdPOPWCNk9nvCHTCeQu-_zEYaXxWVl21np8Q6LF4eoUgc5Le6dBgcesyJKRCbrzFP6lGwgf-38C-myU6dNjtkt440Ojn--Kci2LR1-pjaeLzSWtLPjRVS6YztbRw/s602/Bill%20Heaney.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="602" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg510zhmmP7oWasrm9Nqw0pHNLz-0maiaMSRKDIIufnuxx8D5ysAIduxYTdPOPWCNk9nvCHTCeQu-_zEYaXxWVl21np8Q6LF4eoUgc5Le6dBgcesyJKRCbrzFP6lGwgf-38C-myU6dNjtkt440Ojn--Kci2LR1-pjaeLzSWtLPjRVS6YztbRw/w400-h366/Bill%20Heaney.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill Heaney</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> grew up in the heart
of Galway. His family had a pub in the dock area of the city. He worked in
Dublin and London for many years before returning to Galway. He had a variety
of work situations from pubs to prisons to homeless services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He cites these experiences as inspiration for
some of his writing. Bill started<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attending
writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins about five years
ago. He writes both poetry and short stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He has had some of his poems published in Vox Galvia. Bill’s poetry is
mainly inspired by the injustices in society.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9cbJJU7CQ3cS-c-7Lza5ZCVaZOAmPL77yPZhLwjGZrQ3-HCkuaoftDulSGYh4AGxvicsjSfPMuATv-kdQzShibEtiI7y1wOHTwawlXtQmdeaxEoyQUraleVpwTQ7hLnRFSMUw_p-EfMt--8-7WTw_vSDWb2qlAzxLDWQirkPKHdCU6bZ-w/s500/Abby-Oliveira-web-500x332.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="500" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9cbJJU7CQ3cS-c-7Lza5ZCVaZOAmPL77yPZhLwjGZrQ3-HCkuaoftDulSGYh4AGxvicsjSfPMuATv-kdQzShibEtiI7y1wOHTwawlXtQmdeaxEoyQUraleVpwTQ7hLnRFSMUw_p-EfMt--8-7WTw_vSDWb2qlAzxLDWQirkPKHdCU6bZ-w/w400-h265/Abby-Oliveira-web-500x332.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Abby Oliveira</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> is a writer and performer based in Derry.
Her work is often cross-discipline and collaborative; comprising poetry,
storytelling, music, prose, playwriting, and/or physical performance. Her
work has been most recently published in <i>The 32: An anthology of Irish
Working Class voices </i>(Unbound, 2021<i>), The New Frontier: reflections from
the Irish border (</i>New Island Books, 2021<i>),</i> and<i> Empty House:
poetry & prose on the climate crisis (</i>Doire Press, 2021). She has
been commissioned as a writer by organisations such as The MAC in Belfast<i>, </i>BBC
Radio 4, BBC Radio Foyle<i>, </i>RTÉ Radio<i>, </i>and more. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinDSJXPYoQ90tOG8I6nuWNydizYnTxJYAzPCUbzpoweAP_y8zqBE_DaSQNDQaPofPDhHxHwKHEyG-tTZFvRMIaFqVXCj84qb9EdUq5CtwlQDRSgFq3F9lphTo2XuY90D0e0W95HDyoRiw0yUtcGhBq2jEM8O2tBHXAZLbOtP8sGK2NuXuvhA/s1200/Marc%20Gregg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="675" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinDSJXPYoQ90tOG8I6nuWNydizYnTxJYAzPCUbzpoweAP_y8zqBE_DaSQNDQaPofPDhHxHwKHEyG-tTZFvRMIaFqVXCj84qb9EdUq5CtwlQDRSgFq3F9lphTo2XuY90D0e0W95HDyoRiw0yUtcGhBq2jEM8O2tBHXAZLbOtP8sGK2NuXuvhA/w225-h400/Marc%20Gregg.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marc Gregg</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a writer and
classical vocalist from Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Previously, he was the host
and co-producer of a show called Soap Opera on BBC Radio Ulster that examined
the stories we tell through the voice. He also founded "Button Mash",
Northern Ireland's largest video game tournament series for the Tekken
franchise. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Producer with Outburst Arts
in Belfast producing their queer literature magazine "Catflap" among
other pieces of theatre, opera, gallery shows, concerts and artist development
work. His current work focuses around queerness, class and technology and the
hazy boundaries between the three. An essay of his recently featured in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The 32 – An Anthology of Irish Working Class</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Voices </i>(edited by Paul McVeigh). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The reading will also be broadcast
live via Over The Edge’s Facebook page </span></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The
Arts Council. </b></span></p><p></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-708307185160997842022-11-02T19:33:00.001+00:002022-11-02T19:49:48.828+00:00November Over The Edge: Open Reading with Antoinette Lyons, Monica Igoe, & Ryan Dennis <p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: New, serif;">The November ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library
on <b>Thursday,November 17<sup>th</sup></b>, 6pm-7.30pm. The Featured Readers are
<b>Ryan Dennis,</b> <b>Monica Igoe,</b> & <b>Antoinette Lyons</b>. There
will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. </span></span></p><p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: New, serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DBEkv_tXTAaFoOd5Mc9CyrWLuvPe0G1pGx7xDawxqvKO1oRI9-oBR0rR4QhJSgn6DkzuRf6BX4aemqmo7QPqYf6Rs75pHepOt843UdKTcvUaIhTK8k3BTQs-UEHe0f_dbyYqRTpImgriXXTZEAvcJN8YAsBli0JAfoHt3NYGZcRYZLSVCA/s2048/October%202022%20OTE%20audience.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DBEkv_tXTAaFoOd5Mc9CyrWLuvPe0G1pGx7xDawxqvKO1oRI9-oBR0rR4QhJSgn6DkzuRf6BX4aemqmo7QPqYf6Rs75pHepOt843UdKTcvUaIhTK8k3BTQs-UEHe0f_dbyYqRTpImgriXXTZEAvcJN8YAsBli0JAfoHt3NYGZcRYZLSVCA/w400-h300/October%202022%20OTE%20audience.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: New, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reading will also be
broadcast live via Over The Edge’s Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521</span></a>
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<p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Antoinette Lyons</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> hails from
Ennis, Co. Clare. She has been an avid reader since childhood but only started writing
in the last few years. Antoinette has completed poetry and fiction writing
classes with Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars. Settling in West Clare, <span> </span>Loop Head, the sea, and the area’s<span> </span>soft landscape has found its way into her
writing. <span> </span>Antoinette is surprised to be
writing a coming of age book about two young boys. She is still an avid
reader.<span> </span>Her five guests at fantasy
dinner would be John Banville , Jack Reacher,<span>
</span>Enid Blyton,<span> </span>Haruki Murakami and
Patti Smith. </span></p>
<p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monica Igoe</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> grew up in
Wexford, and studied Communications at Dublin City University a long time
ago. She lives in Galway with her husband and three sons. She previously
worked as a staff journalist in Dublin, Cork, Galway, and as a freelancer out
of Sydney and Galway.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> She
is drawn to the short story format because it allows you inhabit so many
different worlds, and just makes life so much more interesting.</span></p><p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-weFVDuGqTD3WCmP1r32ox5Vnq11e7GSg6jOCMGPjQKEGxsnLARNjIWpHevgswFrtausH0WL0wVIhPAgsqNUtUpX1DV-txxUjP6JxizlbBtdOvufY1ez9DG47zJocR05b03ycgnZ1-6U1JLvHI1e8Fmuk4A7TXJsbL9TQRb9WhQDnShMLQ/s300/Ryan-Dennis2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="233" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-weFVDuGqTD3WCmP1r32ox5Vnq11e7GSg6jOCMGPjQKEGxsnLARNjIWpHevgswFrtausH0WL0wVIhPAgsqNUtUpX1DV-txxUjP6JxizlbBtdOvufY1ez9DG47zJocR05b03ycgnZ1-6U1JLvHI1e8Fmuk4A7TXJsbL9TQRb9WhQDnShMLQ/s1600/Ryan-Dennis2.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><p></p><p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ryan Dennis</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is the author
of the novel <i>The Beasts They Turned Away</i>, published by époque press. In
addition to being a Fulbright and PhD in creative writing, he is a former
writer-in-residence at Maynooth University and has taught at various
institutions. In 2020 he founded The Milk House, an initiative to showcase the
work of those writing on rural subjects.</span></p><p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpTijclK7xujYcQUQXu_-rs1c7tO0cQDX2Ioc4nGw1RZyWQGxWmokE2M5EC2MIc64MPS-bWIA7reWy1v7DieO0lCiHd9PKKxlD02lvukidg-V2EHUPPvLM6S0FoW-Gekd7dFZzhgEc7Gwx9ESBMojh9MK8-gYAxdlZzI_HS06dhHSQRb6Jg/s400/Ryan%20Dennis%20NOVEL%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="261" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpTijclK7xujYcQUQXu_-rs1c7tO0cQDX2Ioc4nGw1RZyWQGxWmokE2M5EC2MIc64MPS-bWIA7reWy1v7DieO0lCiHd9PKKxlD02lvukidg-V2EHUPPvLM6S0FoW-Gekd7dFZzhgEc7Gwx9ESBMojh9MK8-gYAxdlZzI_HS06dhHSQRb6Jg/w261-h400/Ryan%20Dennis%20NOVEL%20.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: New, serif; font-size: 12pt;">As usual there will be an
open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always
particularly welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. <b>Those
interested in reading at the open-mic should give their names to one of the
Over The Edge volunteers at Galway City Library before the reading starts at
6pm.</b> <b></b></span></p>
<p class="ydp5320b4fcyiv1088034932ydpe9241dbfMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: New, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<b>Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway
City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council. </b></span></p><div><br /><br /></div>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-37507934987555799122022-10-11T00:03:00.007+01:002022-10-11T00:12:41.507+01:00October Over The Edge: Open Reading at Galway City Library with Tony Greenstein, Riley Johnston, & Rob Doyle<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPrXxQFvE4VnoFPXvKURFwFVsOOnxp4do36xQpnvytcdcPralT8q9OAirDtr0BRRtfpIZSOphS66PUhl9j6ImDpEX9R_sRhS3dmgED0j0GpJfuU5BxFlXmUXIDuPXfoaEXpEKkSO0iiLV1Kc5t_LxGHMYLH5tvxw2sPrekzqvdRDIrd5V2Q/s1440/310502622_536495178478419_1085906940894497983_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPrXxQFvE4VnoFPXvKURFwFVsOOnxp4do36xQpnvytcdcPralT8q9OAirDtr0BRRtfpIZSOphS66PUhl9j6ImDpEX9R_sRhS3dmgED0j0GpJfuU5BxFlXmUXIDuPXfoaEXpEKkSO0iiLV1Kc5t_LxGHMYLH5tvxw2sPrekzqvdRDIrd5V2Q/w400-h400/310502622_536495178478419_1085906940894497983_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is Over The Edge’s annual non-fiction special, at which all of the
Featured Readers are writers of non-fiction; however poets and fiction writers
are still very welcome at the open-mic. The October ‘Over The Edge: Open
Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on <b>Thursday, October 27<sup>th</sup></b>, 6pm-7.30pm. The Featured Readers
are <b>Rob Doyle,</b> <b>Riley Johnston,</b> & </span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tony Greenstein</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span>There will as usual be an open-mic
after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always especially
welcome at the open-mic. People outside Galway can join the reading via Zoom.
We hope that those who wish to will be able to read remotely at the open-mic
via Zoom. The technology is a work in progress, so we ask that potential
open-mic readers bear with us. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For those of you attending via
Zoom:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Over The Edge is inviting
you to the August Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, October 27<sup>th</sup>,
6pm-7.30pm <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The reading
will also be broadcast live via Over The Edge’s Facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tony Greenstein </span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is the son of an
Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, an anti-Zionist and a founding member of Britain’s Palestine
Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods. He is also a long-standing
anti-fascist activist and author of <i>A History of Fighting Fascism in
Brighton and the South Coast. </i>Tony has written for many publications and
websites including the Guardian, Brighton Argus, Brighton and Hove Independent,<i>Tribune</i>,
<i>Labour Briefing</i>, the Journal of Holy Land Studies,<i>Weekly Worker,
Middle East International, Al Jazeera, Middle East Monitor, Mondoweiss and
Electronic Intifada. </i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">He has also</span> </i>contributed to Hodder & Stoughton’s <i>The
Essentials of Philosophy & Ethics</i> among many<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A well known blogger (<a href="http://www.tonygreenstein.com"><i>http://www.tonygreenstein.com</i></a>),
Tony was the first (though not last) Jewish person to be expelled from the
Labour Party in February 2018 as part the campaign by the Zionists and Labour
Right..</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Riley Johnston</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> teaches English in St Genevieve’s High
School, Belfast. She was first published in THE 32: AN ANTHOLOGY OF
WORKING-CLASS VOICESand later with a short story in German Anthology, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">IRELAND: AN INVITATION</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Riley’s</span>
novel A HOLY SHOW was long-listed in the 2021 Discoveries Prize and recently<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> she </span>was first runner up in the 2022
Mairtín Crawford Short Story Award with a story entitled, CALLOUSED.</span></span> </span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOF6VeTfJbnd-_q5OORg08hbM3hiJrQS1DfXn5eo8mknmHAkAtLpuyDZkyCzWfmwLB2seQd8KirbhKsqlc4lXHumLkT_2A06J_RwMnrIaPpEfOitDZkCxvU4Dol0LRqL6BD0v_5vNEgs_Djjzo9w9xR1lgILlceQ0iY5yEUQeHbEXLNLhzw/s1280/Rob%20Doyle%20by%20Katie%20Freeney.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="853" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOF6VeTfJbnd-_q5OORg08hbM3hiJrQS1DfXn5eo8mknmHAkAtLpuyDZkyCzWfmwLB2seQd8KirbhKsqlc4lXHumLkT_2A06J_RwMnrIaPpEfOitDZkCxvU4Dol0LRqL6BD0v_5vNEgs_Djjzo9w9xR1lgILlceQ0iY5yEUQeHbEXLNLhzw/s320/Rob%20Doyle%20by%20Katie%20Freeney.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Rob Doyle (photo by Katie Freeney)<br /></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="markq402ofstf"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rob</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span class="mark09lyoezp5"><span data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">Doyle</span></span></b> is the author of four
internationally acclaimed books: <i>Autobibliography, Threshold</i>, <i>This Is
the Ritual</i>,<i> </i>and <i>Here Are the Young Men</i>, which has been
adapted for film. His work has been translated into several languages. His
writing has appeared in the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Observer</i>, <i>Dublin
Review</i> and many other publications, and he edited the anthologies <i>The
Other Irish Tradition </i>and <i>In This Skull Hotel Where I Never Sleep</i>.<span class="xgmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As usual
there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers
are always particularly welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar
DuMars. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Those interested in reading at
the open-mic should give their names to Kevin Higgins at Galway City Library
before the reading starts at 6pm.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Those
who wish to read remotely should text 087-6431748 in the half hour before the
reading starts</b>; if you are texting from outside the Republic of Ireland
please add the international code and knock off the first zero on the number.</span></span></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The
Arts Council. </b></span><br /><p></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-11105633908660710922022-09-10T23:25:00.008+01:002022-09-16T12:42:22.644+01:00September Over The Edge: Open Reading with Anne Rouse, Jim Ward, & Fiona Hanley PLUS launch of issue 16 of Skylight 47<p> <span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUXkeuk5tSe_qK1hAK3evr_C4H8Wyk5i2Gzmn-uruNsOHS4dVNAqzU6_n-aUF5BZ21qkoEgT079FCZJjaZS_Wr_INB1r_McJfLyGFdUfyYo-Yxr1uXKjcvMhm1XOGKSRy5MyKEPQWffzjMecDCrI2AAt6lm0fX9-bmPtHSeIynA-75Y1fmnQ/s496/Skylight%20logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="496" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUXkeuk5tSe_qK1hAK3evr_C4H8Wyk5i2Gzmn-uruNsOHS4dVNAqzU6_n-aUF5BZ21qkoEgT079FCZJjaZS_Wr_INB1r_McJfLyGFdUfyYo-Yxr1uXKjcvMhm1XOGKSRy5MyKEPQWffzjMecDCrI2AAt6lm0fX9-bmPtHSeIynA-75Y1fmnQ/w640-h234/Skylight%20logo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span>The September ‘Over
The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in <b>Galway City Library</b> on <b>Thursday,
September 29<sup>th</sup></b>, 6-7.30pm. The Featured Readers are<b> Fiona
Hanley, Jim Ward, </b>&<b> Anne Rouse</b><span>.</span> </span></span></span><span>The evening
will also see the launch, by Anne Rouse, of issue sixteen of perhaps Ireland’s
most exciting, informative, and accessible poetry magazine </span><a href="https://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/"><b><i><span>Skylight 47</span></i></b></a><span>. There will be readings by
contributors. All welcome. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span>Currently
based in Connemara, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fiona Hanley</b>
writes poetry and lyrical essays. Previous work can be read in Cassandra Voices
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kunstlicht</i> and forthcoming poems
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Howl: New Irish Writing</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Interpreter’s House</i>. She was
recently placed 3rd for the Lough Mask Poetry competition and holds a PhD in
Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh. </span><span>She recently participated in Kevin Higgins’s Thursday
Afternoon advanced poetry workshop via Galway Arts Centre. Fiona read some of
her poems at the Poetry Co-operative’s arts for mental healh fundraising gig in
aid of Jigsaw at Róisin Dubh in July. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "New","serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Jim
Ward</b> has published for poetry and stories in Irish and English in various
publications. His play <i>Just Guff </i>won 'Best in the West' award
at Galway Fringe Festival, 2017 and has toured nationally including Town Hall
Studio, Galway, Kilkee Playwright Festival and Liberty Hall, Dublin as part of
MayFest 2019. His poem <i>2016 Proclamation </i>was runner-up in the
Galway Bay FM/Thoor Ballylee Yeats Poetry Challenge,2017. Another poem <i>Orange
Sunset</i> came 3<sup>rd</sup> in the Bobby Sands Creative Writing Contest,
2021. A second play <i>Three Quarks</i> was performed live via Zoom on February
2<sup>nd</sup> last, Joyce’s birthday, by The James Joyce Centre in Dublin, and
is on YouTube. His memoir piece <i>Begging from Beggars</i> was published in <i>The
32 Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices</i>, edited by Paul McVeigh, in
2021. He finished his first novel during the lockdown and is also a published
cartoonist.</span></span></span> </span></p>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIWPSZSs5vJyucEcKrsEEd5T10EBPg-aQfW_aRAQlTKxcthgGKU7-rlDIQH0jqOgsZis_9hpYSNAQkxZ0BQJs8r3Bh9iADpdbnBki7_n6ZwNs__DmRRVMZ_IfV8iwOHIDzMNaV8b8NBYjxJjaPN-8lXI3_skyoAfMi9hZChgJAAACRljKGEg/s768/Anne%20Rouse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIWPSZSs5vJyucEcKrsEEd5T10EBPg-aQfW_aRAQlTKxcthgGKU7-rlDIQH0jqOgsZis_9hpYSNAQkxZ0BQJs8r3Bh9iADpdbnBki7_n6ZwNs__DmRRVMZ_IfV8iwOHIDzMNaV8b8NBYjxJjaPN-8lXI3_skyoAfMi9hZChgJAAACRljKGEg/s320/Anne%20Rouse.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raised
in Virginia, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anne Rouse</b> lives in
East Sussex. A former health worker, she's held Royal Literary Fund Fellowships
in Glasgow, Belfast and London. Her poems have appeared in the <i>Times
Literary Supplement,</i> <i>Poetry Review</i>, <i>Magma</i>, <i>the
Guardian</i>, and other journals and anthologies. <i>The Upshot: New and
Selected Poems</i> was a TLS Book of the Year in 2008. <i>Ox-Eye</i>,
poems on personal and social change, was published by Bloodaxe this June. She
can be found on Twitter @rouseanne.</span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars. The entire event will be broadcast<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>via Facebook live at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For further details phone
087-6431748. </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><br />
<br />
<b>Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway
City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council. </b></span></p>
<p></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-10628106877485929492022-08-11T13:49:00.004+01:002022-08-12T11:35:14.409+01:00August Over The Edge: Open Reading with Hazel Naughton, beam, & Donald Gardner PLUS open-mic<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 115%;">The August ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on <b>Thursday, August 25<sup>th</sup></b>,
6pm-7.30pm. The Featured Readers are <b>Donald
Gardner,</b> <b>beam,</b> & </span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hazel Naughton</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span>
There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">People
outside Galway can join the reading via Zoom. We hope that those who wish to
will be able to read remotely at the open-mic via Zoom. The technology is a work
in progress, so we ask that potential open-mic readers bear with us. Note the
new slightly earlier 6pm start time. </span><br />
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For those of you attending via
Zoom:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Over The Edge is inviting
you to the August Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, August 25<sup>th</sup>,
6pm-7.30pm <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span></p>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The reading
will also be broadcast live via Over The Edge’s Facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hazel Naughton</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a Galway native. She has
taken Kevin Higgins's poetry workshop twice over the years and has read at
several open mics in the past. She has had her writing published by Yasodhara
Ashram and Berlin Art Parasites. She will be attending Queen's University Belfast
in September to begin her post grad in creative writing. Her writing deals with
themes of love, loss, home, and spirituality. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0CrdD61odCzcRespveWohAaj1fgyrxQulVizC2y5NRF5GbLruVHS42bYhGISEZLX3d3mLOtVLEYaW_xD9D9Y5UO2lnShR9eEMJFNW7CNENJ2xod47B3-3ANN_LhNm3rqtuOGr0tkvEE-lDgc5_ZNdmgikWUBl9f2FdlhIO_YXBypnzK6tQ/s1334/beam%20.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="1334" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0CrdD61odCzcRespveWohAaj1fgyrxQulVizC2y5NRF5GbLruVHS42bYhGISEZLX3d3mLOtVLEYaW_xD9D9Y5UO2lnShR9eEMJFNW7CNENJ2xod47B3-3ANN_LhNm3rqtuOGr0tkvEE-lDgc5_ZNdmgikWUBl9f2FdlhIO_YXBypnzK6tQ/s320/beam%20.jpeg" width="320" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b></div></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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workshops led by Kevin Higgins and read as a featured reader for Lime
Square Poets. Her work has been published in Broadsheet.ie,
ThePlatform.uk, Cabinet Of Heed, Poetry With Pride (Belfast Pride 22’),
Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amos, WordCityLit, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lothlorien
Journal, impspired, Open Skies and has been included in
Corks Quare festival as an interactive audio piece. Upcoming work
will appear in Stoney Thursday (edited by Annemarie Ní Churreáin) and
Skylight 47 (16th issue). You can find more of her poetry @personalbeam on
instagram. </span>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Donald Gardner</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
is described as ‘one of the most entertaining and perceptive poets of his
generation’. He has been giving readings of his work since the mid-60s when he
lived in New York. Recently Grey Suit editions brought out his New and Selected
Poems (1966-2020).One reviewer has said: ‘Every section of this book is a time
capsule containing poems that are as fresh and meaningful today as the day they
were written’. London-born, Gardner currently divides his time between Co.
Kildare and Amsterdam.</span></p>
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will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are
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<![endif]--> </p><p><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Creative Writing for Beginners</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
with <b>Kevin Higgins</b> takes place one evening per week (Monday)
from 7-9.30pm (10 weeks). It commences on <b>Monday, September 12<sup>th</sup>,
2022</b>. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €140. Kevin Higgins
will provide writing exercises for, and give gentle critical feedback to, those
interested in trying their hand at writing stories, poems, or memoir</span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To
book a place, go to </span></b></span><a href="https://www.gti.ie/parttime/courses/detail/5342"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.gti.ie/parttime/courses/detail/5342</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Intermediate Creative Writing</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
with <b>Susan Millar DuMars</b> takes place one evening per week
(Wednesday) from 7-9.30pm (10 weeks). It commences on <b>Wednesday,
September 14th</b>, 2022. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €140.
This class is suitable for those who’ve participated in creative writing
classes before or begun to have work published in magazines. Flexible exercises
and work-shopping of assignments, together with the study of the works of
published writers, will help each class member to find their own writing voice.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Both classes
will be conducted via Zoom in the usual friendly supportive manner that have
made Kevin and Susan’s regular in-person creative writing classes at Galway Technical
Institute so popular. Participants shouldn't worry about the technology! Full
details of precisely how the workshop will function online will be explained to
participants during the first session.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For further information contact Galway Technical Institute,
Father Griffin Road, Galway, </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">phone </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">091-581342
or email </span></b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="mailto:gtiadulted@gretb.ie"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">gtiadulted@gretb.ie</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">or see</span></span></span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span><a href="http://www.gti.ie/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.gti.ie</span></b></span></a>
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<p></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-77599851866578331002022-08-08T10:02:00.000+01:002022-08-08T10:02:11.509+01:00Autumn POETRY WORKSHOPS via GALWAY ARTS CENTRE with Kevin Higgins<p><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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in September, <b>Galway Arts Centre</b> is offering aspiring poets a
choice of three online poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet <b>Kevin
Higgins</b></span>, whose best-selling first collection, <i>The Boy With No Face</i>,
published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best
First Collection by an Irish poet. Kevin’s second collection of poems, <i>Time
Gentlemen, Please</i>, was published in 2008 by Salmon Poetry and his poetry
is discussed in <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry</i>. His
third collection <i>Frightening New Furniture</i> was published in 2010 by
Salmon. His work also appears in the generation defining anthology<i> Identity
Parade –New British and Irish Poets </i>(Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010) </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems</i> (Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe
April 2014).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A collection of
Kevin’s essays and book reviews, <i>Mentioning The War</i>, was published by
Salmon Poetry in 2012. Kevin’s poetry has been translated into Greek, Spanish,
Italian, Japanese, German, Serbian, Russian, & Portuguese. In 2014 Kevin's
poetry was the subject of a paper 'The Case of Kevin Higgins, or, '</span><a href="http://georgiasam.blogspot.ie/2014/05/the-case-of-kevin-higgins-or-present.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Present
State of Irish Poetic Satire</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">' presented by David Wheatley at a
Symposium on Satire at the University of Aberdeen. He was
Satirist-in-Residence at the Bogman’s Cannon (2015-16). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'2016 - The Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins</i>' was published by </span><a href="http://www.nuascealta.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">NuaScéalta</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> in 2016; a pamphlet of Kevin’s
political poems <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Minister For Poetry
Has Decreed</i> was published, also in 2016, by the </span><a href="http://www.manifestopress.org.uk/index.php/publications2/48-the-minister-for-poetry-has-decreed"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Culture Matters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> imprint of the
UK based </span><a href="http://www.manifestopress.org.uk/index.php/publications2/48-the-minister-for-poetry-has-decreed"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Manifesto Press</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. His poems have
been praised by, among others, Tony Blair’s biographer John Rentoul, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Observer</i> columnist Nick Cohen, historian
Ruth Dudley Edwards, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday
Independent</i> columnist Gene Kerrigan; have been quoted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily Telegraph</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times </i>(UK), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Independent</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily
Mirror, Hot Press, Phoenix </i>magazine<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and
on<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Tonight With Vincent Browne</i>; and
read aloud by the film director Ken Loach at a political meeting in London. In
2016 </span><a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Stinging Fly</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> magazine
described Kevin as "</span><a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">likely the most
read living poet in Ireland</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">." He has published six collections of poetry
with Salmon, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Song of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Songs 2.0: New & Selected Poems</i>
(2017).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kevin has read his work at Arts
Council and Culture Ireland supported poetry events in Kansas City, USA (2006),
Los Angeles, USA (2007), London, UK (2007), New York, USA (2008), Athens,
Greece (2008); St. Louis, USA (2008), Chicago, USA (2009), Denver, USA (2010),
Washington D.C (2011), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (2011), Geelong,
Australia (2011), Canberra, Australia (2011), St. Louis, USA (2013), Boston,
Massachusetts, USA (2013), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amherst,
Massachusetts, USA (2013), & New Mexico, USA (2018).Kevin's fifth poetry collection <i>Sex & Death at Merlin Park Hospital</i> (Salmon Poetry) was published in June 2019, and on</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">e of the poems from it features in <i>A Galway
Epiphany</i>, the final instalment of Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor serie</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">on</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">s of novels. His
poems have been broadcast on RTE Radio, Lyric FM, and BBC Radio 4. His book The
Colour Yellow & The Number 19:</span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly
Retain His Sanity During 2020</i> was published last year by Nuascealta. His
essay <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thrills & Difficulties: Being A
Marxist Poet In 21<sup>st</sup> Century Ireland</i> was published in pamphlet
form by Beir Bua Press last year. In December 2021 Kevin was both expelled from
the British Labour Party, of which he was an overseas member, for publishing
his poem ‘Tribute Acts’ in Socialist Appeal magazine and, on the very same day,
awarded ‘Poet of The Year’ at the Labour Heroes Awards event at Conway Hall in
London. In 2022 Kevin received a dozen nominations for the position of Ireland
Chair of Poetry. Kevin’s<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
sixth full poetry collection,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Ecstatic</i>,
was published by Salmon this June. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDR3TlhJzab9wUvJxtTKdGtyuJZGcd4OEr7_YWfxrzGcVJbF2GKugih85hU9PzBz8MumsQ8jEB9yWcBVxHdG5c28BkqvQ4OEXUnvyy-XsimHmcHvS1xXByrJ9YlRhMaVKj4ULmKYgMC0qX8XfWPUC4AIw59iZPrMeSp400PZaMHlf52zj1fQ/s960/Kevin%20hat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDR3TlhJzab9wUvJxtTKdGtyuJZGcd4OEr7_YWfxrzGcVJbF2GKugih85hU9PzBz8MumsQ8jEB9yWcBVxHdG5c28BkqvQ4OEXUnvyy-XsimHmcHvS1xXByrJ9YlRhMaVKj4ULmKYgMC0qX8XfWPUC4AIw59iZPrMeSp400PZaMHlf52zj1fQ/w400-h300/Kevin%20hat.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Each week Kevin will give participants a poetry
writing exercise for the following week and will offer each participant
constructive suggestions as to how her or his poem can become the best possible
poem it can be. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kevin is an experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students
have gone on to achieve publication success. One of his workshop participants
at Galway Arts Centre won the prestigious Hennessy Award for New Irish Poetry, two
have won the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and yet another the Cúirt Poetry Grand
Slam, while several have published collections of their poems; two being
shortlisted for the Shine-Strong Award for Best First Collection of poems. In
2013 a group of his students set up the poetry newspaper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight 47</i>, which publishes new poems, reviews of poetry books and
opinion pieces about poetry related matters. Kevin teaches poetry on the NUIG
BA in English with Creative Writing programme and is Creative Writing Director
for the NUI Galway Summer School. Kevin is also co-organiser of the successful
Over The Edge reading series which specialises in promoting new writers. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
workshops will all commence the week of Monday September 26<sup>th</sup>. They
will be conducted via Zoom in the usual friendly supportive manner that made
Kevin's in-person poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre so popular.
Participants shouldn't worry about the technology! Full details of precisely
how the workshop will function online will be explained to participants during
the first session.</span></p>
<p>They will take place on<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/367-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-tuesday-evening-online-remote-course"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tuesday evenings</b></a>, 7-8.30pm (first
class<b> </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tuesday,</span> September 27th</b>); on <a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/368-advanced-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-thursday-afternoon-online-remote-course"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thursday afternoons</b></a>, 2-4pm (first
class Thursday, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">September 29<sup>th</sup></b>)
and on <a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/369-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-friday-afternoon-online-remote-course"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Friday afternoons</b></a>, 2-3.30pm (first
class Friday, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">September 30th</b>). <b></b></p>
<p>The Tuesday evening and Friday afternoon workshops are open to both complete
beginners as well as those who’ve been writing for some time. <b>The
Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced Poetry Workshop</b>, suitable
for those who’ve participated in poetry workshops before or had poems published
in magazines. The cost to participants is <b>€110</b>. As a bonus,
Kevin is offering five optional in person workshop sessions which will take
place in The House Hotel, Galway every other Wednesday, during the term, all
starting at 2pm and running until 4pm. These sessions are open to ALL enrolled
participants in this term’s poetry workshops. </p>
<p><b>Places must be paid for in advance.</b> To reserve a place
contact reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886,
email <a href="mailto:info@galwayartscentre.ie">info@galwayartscentre.ie</a>,
or go to <a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/367-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-tuesday-evening-online-remote-course">https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/367-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-tuesday-evening-online-remote-course</a></p>
<p></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-25843921459251670552022-08-08T10:01:00.001+01:002022-08-30T11:51:40.692+01:00Over The Edge Offers Poets Worldwide Online Poetry Workshop with Kevin Higgins STARTING February 2023<span style="font-size: large;">Starting in February <b>Over The Edge</b>
is offering aspiring poets worldwide a ten week online poetry workshop with poet
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<![endif]--></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Kevin</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">is co-organiser of Over The Edge
literary events in Galway. He has published five full collections of poems: <i>The
Boy With No Face </i>(2005), <i>Time Gentlemen, Please </i>(2008), <i>Frightening
New</i> <i>Furniture </i>(2010), <i>The Ghost In The Lobby </i>(2014), &
Sex <i>and Death at Merlin Park Hospital</i>
(2019). His poems also feature in <i>Identity Parade – New British</i> <i>and
Irish Poets </i>(Bloodaxe, 2010) and in <i>The Hundred Years’ War: modern war </i>poems
(Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe May 2014). Kevin was satirist-in-residence with the
alternative literature website The Bogman’s Cannon 2015-16. <i>2016 – The
Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins </i>was published by NuaScéalta in 2016. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">The Minister For Poetry Has Decreed</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> was published
by Culture Matters (UK) also in 2016. <i>Song of</i> <i>Songs 2:0 – New & Selected Poems </i>was published
by Salmon in Spring 2017. Kevin is a highly experienced workshop facilitator
and several of his students have gone on to achieve publication success. He has
facilitated poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre and taught Creative Writing
at Galway Technical Institute for the past fifteen years. Kevin is the Creative
Writing Director for the NUI Galway International Summer School and also
teaches on the NUIG BA Creative Writing Connect programme. He has published
topical political poems in publications as various as <i>The New European</i>, <i>The Morning
Star</i>, <i>Dissent Magazine</i> (USA), <i>Village Magazine</i> (Ireland), & <i>Harry’s Place</i>. <i>The Stinging Fly</i>
magazine has described Kevin as “likely the most widely read living poet in
Ireland”. One of Kevin’s poems features in <i>A
Galway Epiphany</i>, the final instalment of Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor series of
novels which is just published. His work has been broadcast on RTE Radio, Lyric FM, and BBC Radio 4. His
book <i>The Colour Yellow & The Number
19: </i><i>Negative Thoughts That
Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020</i> is just published by
Nuascealta. Kevin’s sixth
full poetry collection,<i> Ecstatic</i>, was published by Salmon in June. </span>
</span><span>A collection of Kevin’s essays and book reviews, <i>Mentioning The War</i>,
was published by Salmon Poetry in 2012. Kevin’s poetry has been translated into
Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, French, Albanian, &<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>Portuguese. <i>The Ghost in The Lobby</i>, was published in February
2014, also by Salmon. In 2014 Kevin's poetry was the subject of a paper 'The Case of Kevin Higgins, or, '<a href="http://georgiasam.blogspot.ie/2014/05/the-case-of-kevin-higgins-or-present.html">The Present State of Irish Poetic Satire</a>' presented by David Wheatley at a Symposium on Satire at the University of Aberdeen. '2016 - The Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins' was published by <a href="http://www.nuascealta.com/">NuaScéalta</a> in early 2016. </span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A pamphlet of Kevin’s
political poems <i>The Minister For Poetry
Has Decreed</i> was published in December 2016 by the <a href="http://culturematters.org.uk/culture/itemlist/user/284-kevinhiggins.html">Culture Matters</a> imprint of
the UK based Manifesto Press; </span></span><span><a href="http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=428&a=108"><i>Song of Songs 2:0 - New and Selected Poems</i></a> was published by Salmon in April 2017. </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">His poems have been praised by, among others,
Tony Blair’s biographer John Rentoul, <i>Observer</i>
columnist Nick Cohen, historian Ruth Dudley Edwards, and <i>Sunday
Independent</i> columnist Gene Kerrigan; been quoted in <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>, <i>The Independent</i>, <i>The Daily Mirror</i>, <i>Hot Press</i> magazine, <i>Phoenix</i> magazine, and on <i>Tonight with Vincent Browne</i>;</span></span><i> </i>and read aloud by film director <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj1VHvjV23w">Ken Loach</a> at a political meeting in London.</span></span></span><span><a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry"> The Stinging Fly</a> magazine described Kevin as "<a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry">likely the most read living poet in Ireland</a>." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> workshop facilitator Kevin Higgins </span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Each of the ten weeks Kevin will email participants
a poetry writing exercise for the following week and participants will submit
one of their poems to Kevin for constructive criticism. Kevin will work with
participants on making each of their poems the best possible poem it can be</b><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Kevin is a highly experienced workshop
facilitator and several of his students have gone on to achieve publication
success. He has facilitated poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre for the past
twelve years. One of his workshop participants won the prestigious Hennessy
Award for New Irish Poetry; two have been shortlisted for the Shine/Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet; two have won the Cúirt New Writing Prize; and
another the Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam; several have published collections
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kevin is the Creative Writing Director of </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the NUI Galway International Summer School and </span></span> teaches poetry on the NUIG BA Creative Writing Connect programme.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Kevin is co-organiser of the
successful Over The Edge: Open Reading series which specialises in promoting
new writers. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">This workshop </span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">
works via private Facebook group & group email and </span>is PARTICULARLY suitable for continuing and aspiring poets
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Over The Edge presents its thirteenth annual
fiction slam with Featured Readers, David Green, Coirle Mooney, and Nina Oram at
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway on Friday, July 15<sup>th</sup>,
6pm. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVX_X-atfopb6TBelxi038pp8a-Rppy5TBy6U8SFQg6D4QcQ0lkd6-_unVU1r2lPXkPF8O8vVkMI5bDF5hhW-mcBeVcQKe1yeXFaEkfNqytVHlxEizNVMaa3XCF_lRv44R5EvPsjpZ2spntmcE_28ujNJjom3eaUa4MJkpteau_LjTuToNw/s389/David%20Green.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="389" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVX_X-atfopb6TBelxi038pp8a-Rppy5TBy6U8SFQg6D4QcQ0lkd6-_unVU1r2lPXkPF8O8vVkMI5bDF5hhW-mcBeVcQKe1yeXFaEkfNqytVHlxEizNVMaa3XCF_lRv44R5EvPsjpZ2spntmcE_28ujNJjom3eaUa4MJkpteau_LjTuToNw/s320/David%20Green.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">David
Green</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> is an international best-selling writer of the epic
and the urban, the fantastical and the mysterious. With his character-driven
dark fantasy series Empire Of Ruin, or urban fantasy noir Hell In Haven
starring Haven's only supernatural PI Nick Holleran, David takes readers on
emotional, character-driven, action-packed thrill rides that leaves a reader
needing their next fix.Hailing from the north-west of England, David now lives
in County Galway on the west coast of Ireland with his wife and train-obsessed
son. When not writing, David can be found wondering why he chooses to live in,
and write about, places where it constantly rains.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Coirle Mooney</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> is a novelist
who grew up in the Burren Perfumery in a house full of fragrant books and now
lives in Kinvara, Co. Galway. After completing her MA and PhD in Medieval and
Early Modern literature, she began working on a series of Medieval novels.Her
debut novel, <i>The Lady’s Keeper,</i>set in Eleanor of Aquitaine’s court, was
published by Sapere Books. Her next book,<i>The Cloistered Lady,</i>was
published in June, 2022.Her third novel, <i>My Lady’s Shadow, </i>is due for
publication this September. She is currently working on another novel set in
Elizabethan London. She has always read widely and wrote her first murder
mystery, <i>Donald Duck is Dead, </i>aged ten. She read <i>Donald </i>in
instalments to her captivated (or captured) classmates. She has worked as a
Shakespeare and verse-speaking tutor and as an old and middle English tutor in
UCC. Her focus in on storytelling and creating characters with emotional depth.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLt5NjJ-3nFdNa4lX01HduHAMViljeS-QJWwMgKJkc_ikcxXtuIvWCPGm0Y4Oqqn2T3jH0ZRkVC3QnchER5Chm_i7Ewxz9hd5t5XJKlsvlKECn8Mv15vBU1TMbt-XwUJ1Uf_ym3whpmaiKVb_cYOSe7DxDmY4XCIjDhLmmiFZKLdHoiQ64g/s2048/Nina%20Oram%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnLt5NjJ-3nFdNa4lX01HduHAMViljeS-QJWwMgKJkc_ikcxXtuIvWCPGm0Y4Oqqn2T3jH0ZRkVC3QnchER5Chm_i7Ewxz9hd5t5XJKlsvlKECn8Mv15vBU1TMbt-XwUJ1Uf_ym3whpmaiKVb_cYOSe7DxDmY4XCIjDhLmmiFZKLdHoiQ64g/s320/Nina%20Oram%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Originally from the UK, </span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fninaoram.wixsite.com%2Fwebsite&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cc73da8f8c2514265853a08da588f8696%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637919670704355987%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JiUm1EoNC4izAEQ%2FsErrW2p4RO1j3AiZHJy5VMm3bXg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nina Oram</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> lives
in County Roscommon. Having fallen in love with County Sligo, she writes
Folk Horror and Dark Fantasy inspired by mythology and ancient history, and her
passion for the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nina’s YA
Dark Fantasy, “The Carrowkeel Series”, set in the west of Ireland, is published
with Luna Press Publishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her first
adult book, a Folk Horror novella, “A Face in The Leaves” wasreleased in
February this year,based on the legend of the Green Man. She is currently
awaiting a publication date for adark and ghostly collection of short stories.
She was shortlisted in the British Fantasy Awards 2019, Best Newcomer, for the
first book in the trilogy, “The Joining”. Nina won the Luna Press Publishing
(UK) short story competition 2016, and was subsequently published in “Beyond
Realities II”.She also won the Metamorphose short story competition 2016 in the
US, and was published in “Metamorphose Volume II” and has had stories published
in “The Ogham Stone”, and “Horla”, online horror magazine. She was longlisted
in the Novella Award in the US, with special mention, and twice shortlisted in
the Aeon Award, Ireland’s main fantasy competition, as well as for th Over The
Edge New Writer of the Year award. Nina is currently finishing her first adult
novel, Folk Horror, “The Crooked God”. </span><a href="https://ninaoram.wixsite.com/website"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">https://ninaoram.wixsite.com/website</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The first twelve fiction writers to make it to Charlie
Byrne’s Bookshop on the evening of Friday, July 15<sup>th</sup> 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 Nina
Oram, Coirle Mooney, David Green 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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There is no entrance fee. All welcome.
For further information contact 087-6431748.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous
financial support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland and Galway City Council.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"></span><p></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-46844028613972525202022-06-06T12:53:00.005+01:002022-06-06T12:57:25.593+01:00June Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering with American poet Susan Rich and an Evening of African Poetry<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The June Over
The Edge Writers’ Gathering</span></span> </span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">takes place at St. Nicholas’s Church,
Galway on <b>Friday, June 24th</b> at <b>6.30pm</b>. The event will also be
broadcast on Facebook live. The event features visiting American poet Susan
Rich and an Evening of African poetry with Nandi Jola, Adedotun Adekeye, Bernie
Crawford, & Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi. </span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil41t0NLF1pRMcflOT-fYG3Tpem7hS5_1Gruen_qxSTcrOuqVzgk8rPDxDL8Do5imkEuwxZ_IwEnzu42q0ZAspNkCowFoS2-yWgXceEwiZRnt13pS4LpUBjNa4aZn3QE35alz7pd_QBD5ED8IYLSL57--_dDVyK7nZtdvp4cV7f6dmDG3H0g/s1129/Nandi-Jola-768x1129.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil41t0NLF1pRMcflOT-fYG3Tpem7hS5_1Gruen_qxSTcrOuqVzgk8rPDxDL8Do5imkEuwxZ_IwEnzu42q0ZAspNkCowFoS2-yWgXceEwiZRnt13pS4LpUBjNa4aZn3QE35alz7pd_QBD5ED8IYLSL57--_dDVyK7nZtdvp4cV7f6dmDG3H0g/s320/Nandi-Jola-768x1129.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Nandi Jola</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, a South African born
poet, storyteller and playwright at Smock Alley Theatre, Rachel Baptiste 2022
programme.She was a creative writing facilitator for Ulster University's Books
Beyond Boundaries NI in 2021, Poetry Ireland in 2022. Her one woman play
‘The Journey’ opened the International Literature Festival, Dublin, in October,
2020. She represented Northern Ireland at the Transpoesie Poetry Festival in
Brussels 2021 and is a commissioned poet for Poetry Jukebox, participating in
'Ambiguities', a James Joyce programme of the Centre Culturel Irlandais in
Paris 2022. She is currently studying for her MA in Poetry at Queen’s University,
Belfast, and her book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.doirepress.com/writers/nandi-jola">Home is Neither Here Nor
There</a></i>, which is her debut poetry collection, just got published by
Doire Press.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZV1ZCGeHUe5gKxLcsTZYoobr9PRKPJXolqDx7kgJgF2huvt0qOyF1-37LVqqfxYFq_T6WSE6FGsKjzlADmjWH2YRRKhuubqzsuyzanWX7SO7gA5u6waveWYNrjy93wlPHu4LV-Ia1wtBJbeA2Vqold9LirUtg6kcsJW-uGn1gMsgWZHf9Q/s1194/Chiamaka-Enyi-Amadi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="820" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZV1ZCGeHUe5gKxLcsTZYoobr9PRKPJXolqDx7kgJgF2huvt0qOyF1-37LVqqfxYFq_T6WSE6FGsKjzlADmjWH2YRRKhuubqzsuyzanWX7SO7gA5u6waveWYNrjy93wlPHu4LV-Ia1wtBJbeA2Vqold9LirUtg6kcsJW-uGn1gMsgWZHf9Q/s320/Chiamaka-Enyi-Amadi.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Born in Lagos, Nigeria, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi</b> is a writer, performer and arts facilitator
based in Wicklow. She is a commissioned poet on the Poetry as Commemoration
project run by the Irish Poetry Reading Archive in UCD under the Decade of
Centenaries 2012-2023 programme. Her poetry film is being screened in the
ongoing <i>Words at Wilton Park </i>programme and is among the official
selection of the 2022 Bloomsday Film Festival. She was selected for the Screen
Ireland 2021 X-Pollinator Programme and her short story was longlisted for the
2020 <i>An Post</i> Short Story of the Year Award. Her work is widely
published, notedly in <i>The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories</i>
anthology (ed. Sinéad Gleeson). She is co-editor of <i>Writing Home: The ‘New
Irish’ Poets</i> anthology (Dedalus Press, 2019). She is working on her debut
poetry collection. Find her on Instagram/Twitter @AmadiEnyi</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Adedotun Adekeye</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
(Ade), a Nigerian that has been living in Ireland for over 14 years. He had a
poem published in the first edition of Skylight 47 and was a featured reader at
Over the Edge, some years ago. He is a Drama facilitator, skilled in Forum
Theatre methodology and a Storyteller. He also a freelance facilitator in
Development Education.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bernie Crawford, </span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">originally from
County Limerick, lives near the sea in Co Galway. Her poetry has been published
in Irish and international journals and anthologies and in 2021 her first full
collection, <i>Living Water, </i>was published by Chaffinch Press. She
was the winner of <i>New</i> <i>Irish Writing</i> in the <i>Irish Times</i>
in January 2020, the North West Words 2019 poetry competition and 2017 Poetry
Ireland/Trocaire competition. She was placed second in the 2018 Blue Nib Summer
Chapbook Contest and a chapbook with a selection of her poetry was published by
the Blue Nib. In 2019 she was awarded a bursary by Galway County Council to
work towards a debut collection. Bernie is a co-editor of the popular poetry
magazine<i> Skylight 47. </i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">She lived for many years in Lesotho and Zambia. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, <b>Susan
<span class="MsoHyperlink">Rich</span></b> earned a B.A. from the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, a M.Ed. from Harvard University, and an M.F.A. from
the University of Oregon. <span class="MsoHyperlink">Rich</span>’s poems reflect
on her years lived outside the United States as an international human rights
worker, as well as including a more personal focus on family and loss. <span class="MsoHyperlink">Rich</span> is the author of five books of poetry: “Gallery
of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems” (Salmon, 2022), “Cloud Pharmacy”
(2014), “The Alchemist’s Kitchen” (2010), “Cures Include Travel” (2006) and
“The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World” (2000). Susan also co-edited
the travel anthology, <span class="author">The Strangest of Theatres: Poets
Crossing Borders</span> (2013). Her book, “Blue Atlas”<span class="author">, </span>will
be published by Red Hen Press in 2024. With poet Kelli Russell Agodon, she is
co-founder of Poets on the Coast: A Writing Retreat for Women, now in its
eleventh year. Susan has taught at the University of Cape Town (SA), the
Antioch MFA Program, and the University of Oregon, and is currently tenured
faculty at Highline College, outside Seattle. Her work has earned awards
from PEN USA, the Fullbright Foundation and the Times Literary Supplement
(London). She can be found online at <a href="http://www.poetsusanrich.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.poetsusanrich.com</span></a>.</span></p>
<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><br /><p></p>
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All are welcome to attend. Friday, June 24<sup>th</sup>, 6.30pm at St. Nicholas’s
Church, Galway. </span></p>
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financial support of the Arts Council,</span></b></p>
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Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-17498276522939020552022-05-08T15:20:00.004+01:002022-05-09T12:18:23.277+01:00Over The Edge Returns To Galway City Library After Covid!<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Caoimhe May, Sinead Mears, & Morag Anderson for May Over The Edge:
Open Reading </span></b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The May ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on <b>Thursday, May 26<sup>th</sup></b>,
6pm-7.30pm. This is a big occasion as it is the first Over The Edge: Open
Reading to take place in Galway City Library since February 2020. The Featured
Readers are <b>Morag Anderson,</b> <b>Sinead Mears,</b> & </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Caoimhe May</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">. There
will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. People outside Galway
can still join the reading via Zoom. We hope that those who wish to will be
able to read remotely at the open-mic via Zoom. The technology is a work in
progress, so we ask that potential open-mic readers bear with us for what is
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For those of you attending via Zoom: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Over The Edge is inviting you to the May
Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, May 26<sup>th</sup>, 6pm-7.30pm. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Caoimhe May</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is a teenage writer, spoken word
artist and performer in Galway. She is an avid activist who focuses on issues
such as eating disorder recovery, sex positivity, and self love. Caoimhe’s
writing has been published in Vox Galvia, Skylight 47 and elsewhere and she is
a published children's author. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sinead Mears</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span class="xxs2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">has always had a love for language.
She won a National writing competition at 12 years old. She stumbled upon
a Spoken Word group in Debarra’s pub in Clonakilty, Co Cork at aged 17 and
partook in their Open Mics from then on. She learned a lot about life and
writing from everyone I listened to. They gave her the confidence to pursue
writing. Sinead then moved to Galway and studied Creative Writing at NUIG for
two years. She recently took part in Susan DuMars’ writing course via GTI.
Sinead has read here work at poetry readings held in Galway City and had a poem
published in the Galway Advertiser’s Vox Galvia creative writing page. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUlGK-kBB-SSyip0x4Cp982xRlLCTafp_dVSFWADQxriEH5jVNol2Br9cWRbmHMCuu2FyX86ZCa5zKlhKTL8M8mFB15zUT2Sih2tG8HbmeIIfGHXQ2VeGDsvTtauM1o6GOk4gwwams58BQ1_egSCI5XXqA9PEmoLrmXqRiLCaDYuO98VCFDg/s1920/Morag%20Anderson.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1920" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUlGK-kBB-SSyip0x4Cp982xRlLCTafp_dVSFWADQxriEH5jVNol2Br9cWRbmHMCuu2FyX86ZCa5zKlhKTL8M8mFB15zUT2Sih2tG8HbmeIIfGHXQ2VeGDsvTtauM1o6GOk4gwwams58BQ1_egSCI5XXqA9PEmoLrmXqRiLCaDYuO98VCFDg/w400-h313/Morag%20Anderson.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Morag Anderson</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Morag Anderson</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
is a Scottish poet based in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Her debut chapbook, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sin Is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s</i>
(Fly on the Wall Press, 2021), explores human connections—concealed violence,
love, and everything in between. It was a Winter 2021 Poetry Book Society
Recommendation. Her poetry appears in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finished
Creatures</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gutter</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Popshot Quarterly</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight 47</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Broken Spine
Arts Collective</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scotsman</i>
as well as several anthologies, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best
Scottish Poems 2021</i>. She collaborated on a chapbook, How Bright the Wings
Drive Us, which won the Dreich Alliance Competition 2021. She was placed in the
Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2021, the Edwin Morgan Trust
Competition 2021, shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2021, and won Over
the Edge New Poet 2018.She is currently working on a series of commissions by
the Scottish Poetry Library.</span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have
finished. New readers are always particularly welcome. The MC for the evening
will be Susan Millar DuMars. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Those
interested in reading at the open-mic should give their names to Kevin Higgins
at Galway City Library before the reading starts at 6pm.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Those who wish to read remotely should text
087-6431748 in the half hour before the reading starts</b>; if you are texting
from outside the Republic of Ireland please add the international code and
knock off the first zero on the number. <br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The
Arts Council. </b></span>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-40609666839728354482022-05-02T00:55:00.002+01:002022-06-01T11:36:41.769+01:00Advanced Fiction Class DAYTIME CLASS on Zoom with Susan Millar DuMars <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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CLASS in Advanced Fiction Writing with Susan Millar DuMars on Zoom STARTS THURSDAY
June 2nd </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">THE CLASS
TAKES PLACE on <b>THURSDAY AFTERNOONS</b>, 2-4pm for 6 weeks STARTING <b><u>Thursday,
June 2nd on Zoom</u></b>. Finishes July 7<sup>th</sup>. Maximum Number
students: 5. Each student will receive close individual attention. </span></p>
<p><b><i><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 18pt;">Price</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>€150 </b>for 6 weeks payable in
advance. There are no refunds. To guarantee a place you must pay in advance. If
you have been struggling with a short story or a novel, this is the class for
you.<b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">CLASS DESCRIPTION</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">:</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;"> this class
is<b><i> </i></b>for those serious about writing short or long fiction; those
who are working on a fiction project independently and feel they need feedback
and support. From week one, each student will be responsible to email an
extract from their story or novel to Susan Millar DuMars and their classmates
by Monday noon. Students will also bring hard copies of the piece into
class. Students can submit up to 5 double spaced pages each week. In each
session we will provide feedback to each student. Susan’s feedback will be detailed
as it will be based on her earlier reading of the work. Thus, each student will
receive detailed feedback on a total of 30 pages of work. </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">The class
is organised by Over The Edge literary events and will take place via Zoom at </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Meeting
ID: 738 901 3549</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjVt-iMOMXg8G4j_FqlwsYyl5ITV4d57J3wyvfYyeh3RFSpuTZqJXCE22B3AvRJ8qdPCuM_p25dCeP3KbvJEehsaiGZqSZLYDBrdqq4fXyrJjpZIqBAxtaWli-UklUfnB6X6hTPKclbk5zzf8MGIkYkn_gD-pxFxL9iHXZCEjTHLoxX68Lw/s2048/Susan%20new%20photo%202020%20from%202016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="2048" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjVt-iMOMXg8G4j_FqlwsYyl5ITV4d57J3wyvfYyeh3RFSpuTZqJXCE22B3AvRJ8qdPCuM_p25dCeP3KbvJEehsaiGZqSZLYDBrdqq4fXyrJjpZIqBAxtaWli-UklUfnB6X6hTPKclbk5zzf8MGIkYkn_gD-pxFxL9iHXZCEjTHLoxX68Lw/w400-h299/Susan%20new%20photo%202020%20from%202016.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">ABOUT THE
TUTOR: Susan Millar DuMars’ debut poetry collection, <i>Big Pink Umbrella</i>,
was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008. Her next collection, <i>Dreams for Breakfast</i>,
appeared in April 2010. Her work features in <i>Landing Places</i>, Dedalus’
2010 anthology of immigrant poetry written in Ireland; and also in <i>The Best
Of Irish Poetry 2010</i>. A fiction writer as well, she published a collection
of short stories, <i>American Girls</i>, with Lapwing in 2007. She published a
book of short stories in 2010: <i>Lights in the Distance</i>, published by
Doire Press, and was the Featured Fiction writer in the American online
magazine </span><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="http://atticusreview.org/meet-featured-fiction-writer-susan-miller-dumars/"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">The
Atticus Review</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">. She has been the recipient of an Arts Council
Literature Bursary. Susan's third collection of poetry, <i>The God Thing</i>,
was published by Salmon Poetry in 2013; her fourth collection, <i>Bone Fire</i>,
was launched at the 2015 Cúirt Festival of International Literature. She lives
in Galway, where she and her husband have run the Over the Edge readings series
since 2003. Susan edited the anthology <i>Over the Edge – The First Ten years</i>,
published by Salmon, which includes work by forty seven writers who have
published a first book since they did a reading at an Over The Edge: Open
Reading in Galway City Library. Susan’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
& Selected Poems</i> was published in Spring 2019 by Salmon Poetry. </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">In
March 2020 she received a literature bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland
to work on her hotly anticipated forthcoming collection of short stories.</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;"></span></p>
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Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-32699312224231925522022-04-25T14:01:00.004+01:002022-04-25T14:04:52.225+01:00Summer 2022 Online Poetry Workshops with Kevin Higgins via Galway Arts Centre<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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in May, <b>Galway Arts Centre</b> is offering aspiring poets a choice
of three online poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet <b>Kevin Higgins</b></span>,
whose best-selling first collection, <i>The Boy With No Face</i>, published
by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First
Collection by an Irish poet. Kevin’s second collection of poems, <i>Time
Gentlemen, Please</i>, was published in 2008 by Salmon Poetry and his poetry
is discussed in <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry</i>. His
third collection <i>Frightening New Furniture</i> was published in 2010 by
Salmon. His work also appears in the generation defining anthology<i> Identity
Parade –New British and Irish Poets </i>(Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010) </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems</i> (Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe
April 2014).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A collection of
Kevin’s essays and book reviews, <i>Mentioning The War</i>, was published by
Salmon Poetry in 2012. Kevin’s poetry has been translated into Greek, Spanish,
Italian, Japanese, German, Serbian, Russian, & Portuguese. In 2014 Kevin's
poetry was the subject of a paper 'The Case of Kevin Higgins, or, '</span><a href="http://georgiasam.blogspot.ie/2014/05/the-case-of-kevin-higgins-or-present.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Present
State of Irish Poetic Satire</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">' presented by David Wheatley at a
Symposium on Satire at the University of Aberdeen. He was
Satirist-in-Residence at the Bogman’s Cannon (2015-16). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'2016 - The Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins</i>' was published by </span><a href="http://www.nuascealta.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">NuaScéalta</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> in 2016; a pamphlet of Kevin’s
political poems <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Minister For Poetry
Has Decreed</i> was published, also in 2016, by the </span><a href="http://www.manifestopress.org.uk/index.php/publications2/48-the-minister-for-poetry-has-decreed"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Culture Matters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> imprint of the
UK based </span><a href="http://www.manifestopress.org.uk/index.php/publications2/48-the-minister-for-poetry-has-decreed"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Manifesto Press</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. His poems have
been praised by, among others, Tony Blair’s biographer John Rentoul, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Observer</i> columnist Nick Cohen, historian
Ruth Dudley Edwards, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday
Independent</i> columnist Gene Kerrigan; have been quoted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily Telegraph</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times </i>(UK), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Independent</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily
Mirror, Hot Press, Phoenix </i>magazine<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and
on<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Tonight With Vincent Browne</i>; and
read aloud by the film director Ken Loach at a political meeting in London. In
2016 </span><a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Stinging Fly</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> magazine
described Kevin as "</span><a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">likely the most
read living poet in Ireland</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">." He has published six collections of poetry
with Salmon, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Song of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Songs 2.0: New & Selected Poems</i>
(2017).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kevin has read his work at Arts
Council and Culture Ireland supported poetry events in Kansas City, USA (2006),
Los Angeles, USA (2007), London, UK (2007), New York, USA (2008), Athens,
Greece (2008); St. Louis, USA (2008), Chicago, USA (2009), Denver, USA (2010),
Washington D.C (2011), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (2011), Geelong,
Australia (2011), Canberra, Australia (2011), St. Louis, USA (2013), Boston,
Massachusetts, USA (2013), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amherst,
Massachusetts, USA (2013), & New Mexico, USA (2018). Kevin’s most recent
poetry collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sex and Death at
Merlin Park Hospital</i>, was published by Salmon Poetry (June 2019); <span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span>one of the poems from which feature in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Galway Epiphany</i>, the final instalment of Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor
series of novels. </span></span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">His
poems have been broadcast on RTE Radio, Lyric FM, and BBC Radio 4. His book </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">The Colour Yellow & The Number 19:</span></span> </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly
Retain His Sanity During 2020</i> was published last year by Nuascealta. His
essay <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thrills & Difficulties: Being A
Marxist Poet In 21<sup>st</sup> Century Ireland</i> was published in pamphlet
form by Beir Bua Press last year. In December 2021 Kevin was both expelled from
the British Labour Party, of which he was an overseas member, for publishing
his poem ‘Tribute Acts’ in Socialist Appeal magazine and, on the very same day,
awarded ‘Poet of The Year’ at the Labour Heroes Awards event at Conway Hall in
London. Kevin’s<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> sixth
full poetry collection,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Ecstatic</i>, is
published by Salmon in May. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSjCHknicPm0KCzwaeD1tkhQX3fhM7WbLhczM2ir5zwW_wWYNorEVytvZNiovaYfZJ87N0PE6lm5q8X2bFGQOnsrvJvxLC6tIHOLJEjLId0QOnvx6fHXflGZh82mEFnE-GbDZn47pMPgPKhtjeZhZBj9RTIWKCSXqAwf0EZWLT0VsR1BKLQ/s960/Kevin%20hat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSjCHknicPm0KCzwaeD1tkhQX3fhM7WbLhczM2ir5zwW_wWYNorEVytvZNiovaYfZJ87N0PE6lm5q8X2bFGQOnsrvJvxLC6tIHOLJEjLId0QOnvx6fHXflGZh82mEFnE-GbDZn47pMPgPKhtjeZhZBj9RTIWKCSXqAwf0EZWLT0VsR1BKLQ/s320/Kevin%20hat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Each week Kevin will give participants a poetry
writing exercise for the following week and will offer each participant
constructive suggestions as to how her or his poem can become the best possible
poem it can be. </span></p>
<p>Kevin is an experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students
have gone on to achieve publication success. One of his workshop participants
at Galway Arts Centre won the prestigious Hennessy Award for New Irish Poetry, two
have won the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and yet another the Cúirt Poetry Grand
Slam, while several have published collections of their poems; two being
shortlisted for the Shine-Strong Award for Best First Collection of poems. In
2013 a group of his students set up the poetry newspaper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight 47</i>, which publishes new poems, reviews of poetry books and
opinion pieces about poetry related matters. Kevin teaches poetry on the NUIG
BA Creative Writing Connect programme and is Creative Writing Director for the
NUI Galway Summer School. Kevin is also co-organiser of the successful Over The
Edge reading series which specialises in promoting new writers. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
workshops will all commence the week of Monday May 9<sup>th</sup>. They will be
conducted via Zoom in the usual friendly supportive manner that made Kevin's
in-person poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre so popular. Participants
shouldn't worry about the technology! Full details of precisely how the
workshop will function online will be explained to participants during the
first session.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">They will take place on<b> </b><a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/363-363-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-evening-online-remote-course"><b>Tuesday evenings</b></a>, 7-8.30pm (first
class<b> </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tuesday,</span> May 10th</b>); on <a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/362-362-advanced-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-afternoon-online-remote-course"><b>Thursday afternoons</b></a>, 2-4pm (first
class Thursday, <b>May 12th</b>) and on <a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/361-361-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-afternoon-online-remote-course"><b>Friday afternoons</b></a>, 2-3.30pm (first
class Friday, <b>May 13th</b>). </span></p>
<p>The Tuesday evening and Friday afternoon workshops are open to both complete
beginners as well as those who’ve been writing for some time. <b>The
Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced Poetry Workshop</b>, suitable
for those who’ve participated in poetry workshops before or had poems published
in magazines. The cost to participants is <b>€110</b>. As a bonus,
Kevin is offering five optional in person workshop sessions which will take
place in The House Hotel, Galway on Wednesday, May 18<sup>th</sup>, June 8<sup>th</sup>.
June 15<sup>th</sup>, July 13<sup>th</sup>, & July 20<sup>th</sup>, all
starting at 2pm and running until 4pm. These sessions are open to ALL enrolled
participants in this term’s poetry workshops. </p>
<p><b>Places must be paid for in advance.</b> To reserve a place
contact reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886,
email <a href="mailto:info@galwayartscentre.ie">info@galwayartscentre.ie</a>,
or go to </p>
<span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/363-363-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-evening-online-remote-course"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/363-363-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-evening-online-remote-course</span></b></a></span>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-5210807303728531912022-03-19T00:38:00.005+00:002022-03-19T00:43:47.254+00:00Over The Edge and Skylight 47 poetry magazine in association with the Cúirt Festival of International Literature present the seventeenth annual New Writing Showcase<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Since
its inception in 2006 the </span><a href="https://www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/new-writing-showcase-2/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">New Writing
Showcase</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
has grown to become one of the most important platforms for emerging writers in
Ireland. This year’s Cúirt Over The Edge New Writing Showcase features three
participants from the Over the Edge literary series in Galway – Sadhbh Goodwin,
D’or Seifer, & Hannah Ward – and Shane Murphy and Siobhán Flynn</span>, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">the winners of
the <a href="https://www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-new-writing-prize-winners-2022/">Cúirt
New Writing Prize 2022</a>. Also reading this year will be Flavia Simas who is
chosen as part of the new Skylight 47 Open Window project which will, from now
on, be an annual part of Cúirt. The MC for the event will be regular Over The
Edge host Susan Millar DuMars. It takes place on <b>Tuesday, April 5<sup>th</sup>, 11 am, </b>at <b>The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane</b>. Entry is pay what you can. All
welcome. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3LkJaNScxwxu8-OZR0moQDMYEcdEmPP_N92Nc5IZzRQyzYAGwRgWGnkr4VVKlWOx6FudXPQXzg6VhDvxstcx7SguUWPp-FaDT-O6p3syavGn8JZd4i--JicvDnWAZmScaRV-lJ-fhvP66JXSxkOwYWYw3NJmBvgodmFEEahs2we0kk6JmTA=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3LkJaNScxwxu8-OZR0moQDMYEcdEmPP_N92Nc5IZzRQyzYAGwRgWGnkr4VVKlWOx6FudXPQXzg6VhDvxstcx7SguUWPp-FaDT-O6p3syavGn8JZd4i--JicvDnWAZmScaRV-lJ-fhvP66JXSxkOwYWYw3NJmBvgodmFEEahs2we0kk6JmTA=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sadhbh Goodwin</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
is a nineteen year old poet from Galway. Their poetry has been published in the
Wild Words anthology (four years in a row), in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">VoxGalvia</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cinders</i>
magazine, and was also featured on Headstuff.org as poem of the week. They
write in both Irish and English, and their poem “Oidhreacht” was featured on
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">#WEARETHEPOETS</i> poetry jukebox in
Dublin. They have performed before in the “Over the Edge" open mic, as
well as the “In my Orbit" open mic at the Galway Arts centre. They are
currently studying English in UCC. Sadhbh </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">was a Featured Reader at the March 2021 Over The
Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">D'or Seifer</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> lives in
Limerick. She contributes to poetry gatherings, such as Filí an Tí Bháin, and
On the Nail. D’or co-runs the online poetry series Lime Square Poets. Previous
to this, she co-ran the Not the Time to be Silent series. Her work has
appeared in Skylight 47, The Galway Advertiser's Vox Galvia page, Spilling
Cocoa Over Martin Amis, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwij_ZyKyIHzAhWmRkEAHRzuAkQQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Flothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com%2F2021%2F06%2Ffour-sublime-poems-by-dor-seifer.html&usg=AOvVaw0zHsjp62qprQwQSblEkwC7"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lothlorien
Poetry Journal, and Pendemic. D’or </span><span color="windowtext" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">was a Featured Reader at the September 2021 Over The
Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Hannah Ward</span></span> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">is from Roscommon and grew up in a family ran
petrol station which closed in 2018. Hannah is currently a student in NUIG
studying creative writing and working towards a bachelor’s degree in English
and philosophy. Hannah would like to follow in the grand Irish tradition of
speaking in great descriptive volumes, with a lot of heart and conviction, and
never really making a point. Her poetry has been published in the Vox Galvia
creative writing page in The Galway Advertiser. Hannah was a Featured Reader at
the May 2021 Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Flávia Simas</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> was born and
raised in Goiás, Brazil, where she completed her studies and earned a Master’s
Degree in Linguistics. Flávia is interested in literature as a means to express
the shared humanity of our daily struggles. Her work has appeared at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rabble.ie</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elephant Journal</i>, and at the special edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight 47</i> published in 2019. Flavia is
reading as part of the new Skylight 47 Open Window project which will, from now
on, be an annual part of Cúirt. </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS3IUJXajjC4D87QiOA7LM8KkLx5fcqA3q6kg8X_pOJJS00owLIgL-1jWK8bosmvl2cf3X6flY_PQV0UtDaLfnHLr1KDktNZusgD7SBxs7JQeVNd4j9e15YBe20eOKInQMcPMZZ_BUrVdqIQ8z12p-nVjVTa_LMDs8JkagEctpfPCGoWFhCA=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS3IUJXajjC4D87QiOA7LM8KkLx5fcqA3q6kg8X_pOJJS00owLIgL-1jWK8bosmvl2cf3X6flY_PQV0UtDaLfnHLr1KDktNZusgD7SBxs7JQeVNd4j9e15YBe20eOKInQMcPMZZ_BUrVdqIQ8z12p-nVjVTa_LMDs8JkagEctpfPCGoWFhCA=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;">Shane Murphy</span></b><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span></span>is
the winner in the fiction category for this year’s Cúirt New Writing Prize. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of Shane’s winning story “Welcome to the
World”, t</span>his year’s fiction judge Lisa McInerney wrote: ‘A character
study that’s compassionate and raw, and a reflection on yearning and identity
that was moving and surprising. This isn’t the most polished work on the
longlist, but to me it was the most promising. I felt the writer was at once
curious and distanced enough from their protagonist to convey a memorable
story. A sign, I think, of a gift for words and for people’.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="markr6q2yn8vr"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span>Siobhán
Flynn</span></b></span><span>
is the winner in the poetry category for this year’s Cúirt New Writing Prize. Of
Siobhán’s winning poem “I’m Trying to Write a Poem About an Angel” this years’
poetry judge Gail McConnell wrote: ‘Often the test of a true poem is the
reader’s desire to return to it again and again. I liked this poem when I read
it first, but I noticed that I kept re-reading it, and each time I did, I
noticed something new. It’s a poem that knows what it’s about – and it’s about
a state of unknowing. The poem is asking what it is to be a self and what it is
to be a body, and to try to answer its questions it looks beyond the binaries
of gender (male and female), and presence (natural and supernatural), hoping
‘to find the right form’. It’s a poem after Analicia Sotelo’s ‘I’m Trying to
Write a Poem about a Virgin and It’s Awful’, so it’s playing with imitation in
its form as well as in its subject. It sets up a pair of relationships: of the
poem with its influence, and of ‘I’ with ‘they’. There’s a lot about it to
enjoy – humour, clear diction, good line endings and a self-consciousness about
the whole strange endeavour of living and writing – but it’ the ending I marvel
at. Wonderful’.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Over The Edge
acknowledges the ongoing financial support of The Arts Council, Galway City
Council, and Poetry Ireland, and our ongoing partnership with the Cúirt
Festival of International Literature. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYcwukQqx-5n1W2oF1T1U0UHv0t_BtfJfUQiCR-kF9zgtozDpvtEWyUBzUjL_zCoew9mIcUZuWVEwkwpTh378R0RYMEVJPxnH0Ptbk7v2SBuCc1zvkjM-ZBfKHe6TXGeeM-5yEdXDxZs43y9Itx_j92zLCV5Vp3Xxv0AIWB2zOwy2zDtUQnQ=s496" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="496" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYcwukQqx-5n1W2oF1T1U0UHv0t_BtfJfUQiCR-kF9zgtozDpvtEWyUBzUjL_zCoew9mIcUZuWVEwkwpTh378R0RYMEVJPxnH0Ptbk7v2SBuCc1zvkjM-ZBfKHe6TXGeeM-5yEdXDxZs43y9Itx_j92zLCV5Vp3Xxv0AIWB2zOwy2zDtUQnQ=s320" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpBtxV1N-yyuXiDqPkvF3_am_oHnQzkcurXMtkllmdr2FdbyQl-5Ur1vUKaRp0Q0aL0ZL3GKG-VeuBFmhlGHCG2mB3u-HdxRYDFwUOGRlq06cmaEwxDydpCUPKcqQFJesmUJX22aIJDGkZC9vS9CuRvsHwDUXL7amkXJqzvo40WxkqJ4AhqA=s220" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="220" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpBtxV1N-yyuXiDqPkvF3_am_oHnQzkcurXMtkllmdr2FdbyQl-5Ur1vUKaRp0Q0aL0ZL3GKG-VeuBFmhlGHCG2mB3u-HdxRYDFwUOGRlq06cmaEwxDydpCUPKcqQFJesmUJX22aIJDGkZC9vS9CuRvsHwDUXL7amkXJqzvo40WxkqJ4AhqA" width="220" /></a></div><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3RuNWXV6H5zGGgky-Ta7dXxOZN40kAokSC92LCOb8lMMExLmaDz_RE2D3WRgKPjK9MCcRux7BPHBkLGOa67xj3VpDmgLK3i5qxhHwI78LHOZ8VI-0CLFzKTqinst5B9qhdpAAyx52z4Rk8wDZClIotUrppWJJDKeLn0VL8yTzGwdLPvH6Iw=s850" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="850" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3RuNWXV6H5zGGgky-Ta7dXxOZN40kAokSC92LCOb8lMMExLmaDz_RE2D3WRgKPjK9MCcRux7BPHBkLGOa67xj3VpDmgLK3i5qxhHwI78LHOZ8VI-0CLFzKTqinst5B9qhdpAAyx52z4Rk8wDZClIotUrppWJJDKeLn0VL8yTzGwdLPvH6Iw=s320" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><p></p>
Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-76727266952957599982022-03-12T23:27:00.003+00:002022-03-12T23:29:07.719+00:00March Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom with Anne Tannam, John Transier, & Aoife Cunningham <p class="MsoNoSpacing"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
March ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place on Zoom on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thursday, March 24<sup>th</sup> </b>at the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm
(local Galway time). The Featured Readers are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aoife Cunningham</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, John Transier, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">& </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anne Tannam</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There will, as always
at Over The Edge: Open Readings, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have
finished. New readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. Anyone
interested in taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin Higgins on
087-6431748 or or register their interest by messaging the Over The Edge
Facebook page<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899">https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899</a>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of
the reading</b>. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8zxptbRIz7Y5yYYz8wsosxrB_gl6IcQQhz3jR5cUhEbo0MdRcNG8WXhyn76c5HY3623FFtHDZBJax_8CNEGokc0Unz00kt8GQDCTcvp3Qjblvmgxj9o9q0XL1_PlIrH-6aQts-LU11hzH7mMAar5A9TxIEqtegFlCnhHBEispP_IZf_ALvA=s1214" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1213" data-original-width="1214" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8zxptbRIz7Y5yYYz8wsosxrB_gl6IcQQhz3jR5cUhEbo0MdRcNG8WXhyn76c5HY3623FFtHDZBJax_8CNEGokc0Unz00kt8GQDCTcvp3Qjblvmgxj9o9q0XL1_PlIrH-6aQts-LU11hzH7mMAar5A9TxIEqtegFlCnhHBEispP_IZf_ALvA=s320" width="320" /></a></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aoife Cunningham</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> grew up in a small
village on the suburbs of Galway City. A twin in a family of 6 children, Aoife
grew up as a middle child. She was raised single handily by her mother Sylvia.
Aoife began writing when she was 7, beginning with short stories before progressing
on to writing and publishing her poetry. Aoife began her poetry career in 2018
after taking a poetry workshop with Kevin Higgins. From there, Aoife has been
published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galway Advertiser</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Broadsheet.ie</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Crow of Minerva</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spilling
Cocoa On Martin Amis</i>. As someone who struggled with their mental health,
Aoife found solace through her poetry. From jumping off a bridge in 2018 to
ending up on life support in 2020 due to Anorexia, Aoife’s poetry documents the
battle of mental illness and her subsequent recovery. Aoife aspires to write a
book and become an advocate for mental health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her dream is to become an renowned author and to help improve the mental
wellness support in Ireland, ensuring that all young people have access to
treatment.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="marknu5tjy74h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhg4gLM_qAnxv981TgeLLhWJgvug457gSnxV28zbRwAx-StRBGnzC6h9L4cSPzbkLc6gs1A8qxAlufJBdSusX87qDWm16O2QIQIpP_P3pd_850gmn1m574YOmYc5ACkbWDgge792WZEs1LXlF3UfaMCeOjgD80C5OPS4yjJuoyGfhrWk5BAaw=s655" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="581" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhg4gLM_qAnxv981TgeLLhWJgvug457gSnxV28zbRwAx-StRBGnzC6h9L4cSPzbkLc6gs1A8qxAlufJBdSusX87qDWm16O2QIQIpP_P3pd_850gmn1m574YOmYc5ACkbWDgge792WZEs1LXlF3UfaMCeOjgD80C5OPS4yjJuoyGfhrWk5BAaw=s320" width="284" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John
Transier</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is a fiction writer based in Portland, Oregon who has been
shortlisted in many literary competitions. John is currently working on his
first novel. He loves reading history, cooking, writing, long walks and the
novels of John Steinbeck, George MacDonald Fraser and Patrick O’Brian. He does
not understand why anyone drinks anything other than Aviation gin, which is
distilled about ten miles from his house in Portland. On winter evenings he
likes to lay on the couch, listen to his wife play guitar and his daughter play
piano and reflect on the fact that he has no musical ability whatsoever. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlQ_QSsicafDgqT-g8xI3YyiahzgXFSNacuMcqOITUSA5sFYKUf28HJSKvddF8KppeN9b99tgAVTXHz2Tbf0rsCU6iAI13cxJk3GEzD6aLivejVqfHRIYUFBWJoFh2AgCNsqCaKcD_nAnduZ5OijHdXWmv7sY0wl6HbCuHGOaXXAWU8rcZlQ=s312" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="312" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlQ_QSsicafDgqT-g8xI3YyiahzgXFSNacuMcqOITUSA5sFYKUf28HJSKvddF8KppeN9b99tgAVTXHz2Tbf0rsCU6iAI13cxJk3GEzD6aLivejVqfHRIYUFBWJoFh2AgCNsqCaKcD_nAnduZ5OijHdXWmv7sY0wl6HbCuHGOaXXAWU8rcZlQ" width="312" /></a></div><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anne Tannam</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is from Dublin and is
the author of three poetry collections, ‘Take This Life (Wordonthestreet 2011),
‘Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor’ (Salmon Poetry 2017) and the
latest ‘Twenty-six Letters of a new Alphabet’ published with Salmon in 2021. <span class="marke70axr0gq">Anne</span>’s work has been featured on national radio and
press and forms part of UCD’s Irish Poetry Reading Archive. Also a spoken word
poet, <span class="marke70axr0gq">Anne</span> has performed at home and abroad at
events such as Electric Picnic, Kosovo International Poetry Festival and
Berlin’s Craw Festival. For more on <span class="marke70axr0gq">Anne</span>’s
poetry visit </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="http://www.annetannampoetry.ie/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.</span><span class="marke70axr0gq"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">anne</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tannampoetry.ie</span></a></span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over The Edge is inviting you to the March
Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, March 24<sup>th</sup>, 6.30-8pm </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p> </p><p> <span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always particularly welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748. <br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous
financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts
Council. </b></span></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-46906156404833629102022-02-13T12:13:00.000+00:002022-02-13T12:13:04.152+00:00February Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom with Polina Cosgrave, Sharon Black, Claire Loader, & Vincent Flannery PLUS open-mic <p class="MsoNoSpacing"> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
February ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place on Zoom on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thursday, February 24<sup>th</sup> </b>at
the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm (local Galway time). The Featured
Readers are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Vincent Flannery,</b> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Claire Loader,
Sharon Black </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">& </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Polina Cosgrave</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There will, as always at Over The Edge:
Open Readings, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. Anyone interested in
taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or or
register their interest by messaging the Over The Edge Facebook page<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899">https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899</a>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of
the reading</b>. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vincent Flannery</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a creative
writing student at NUI Galway. His writing allows him to act
as a conductor, directing his emotional states and abstract
mental imagery into the physical world of writing. Writing, for Vincent, is the
thread that binds his mind to his body and his body to the world. Through
writing, Vincent translates an internal world into a grounded reality. Writing
is the thread he follows to navigate the internal and external enigma that is
the life. His poems have been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ROPES</i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="marknu5tjy74h"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Claire</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span class="markwxi7yrdq9"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Loader</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span class="marknu5tjy74h"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is
</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a
New Zealand born writer and photographer now living in Galway, Ireland. Her
work has been published in various magazines, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry Bus</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Splonk</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crannóg</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight47</i>. She won the Women Speak Poetry Competition in 2019 and
her story Return was shortlisted for the Allingham Flash Fiction Prize in the
same year. She is a Forward and Pushcart Prize nominee and this year sees her
first collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pushed Toward the Blue
Hour</i> published by Nine Pens Press.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sharon Black</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is
from Glasgow and lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes mountains of France.
Her poetry is published widely and she has won many prizes for her work
including the Guernsey International Poetry Competition 2019 and <i>The London
Magazine</i> Poetry Prizes 2019 and 2018. Her collections are <i>To Know
Bedrock</i> (Pindrop, 2011) and <i>The Art of Egg</i> (Two Ravens, 2015;
Pindrop, 2019). A pamphlet, <i>Rib,</i> is out now (Wayleave Press, 2021), and
her third and fourth full collections will appear in 2022 with Vagabond Voices
and with Drunk Muse Press respectively. </span><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharonblack.co.uk%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ca60dce0e21b042bc2e4c08d9de923af8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637785541911797599%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=mahOlX6wJGS97KOSaMFkOKSqb14ZyOtFUHX7grwC9Ps%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.sharonblack.co.uk</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNNGj4KbzBpml1jWOONQL8rQFYhVIxG6Sx-Bc0LINZ3rME2GpGrQvgP7IraVOlo3PKdv0RmO3iU5mci-XFXnCdIZgBG-IrknbJGVpKUjzgpDFamaGcdFyhcbAcbBZTuuAn6C1TW-gwKaO-07etNHZLPz3KjCAJoSKJy3SE5CGeA4bKkY_sRA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="724" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNNGj4KbzBpml1jWOONQL8rQFYhVIxG6Sx-Bc0LINZ3rME2GpGrQvgP7IraVOlo3PKdv0RmO3iU5mci-XFXnCdIZgBG-IrknbJGVpKUjzgpDFamaGcdFyhcbAcbBZTuuAn6C1TW-gwKaO-07etNHZLPz3KjCAJoSKJy3SE5CGeA4bKkY_sRA=s320" width="257" /></a></u></div><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></u><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Polina <span class="mark8llp2vmon">Cosgrave</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a Russian-born writer based in
Ireland. Polina was born in Volgograd, Russia in 1988. She earned a degree in
Linguistics as a teacher of English and French in Volgograd State Pedagogical
University at the Chair of International Communication. Polina’s diploma thesis
<em>The Linguistic Phenomenon Of Fear In Stephen King’s Novels</em> won the
first prize at the University’s 63rd conference. Her work in Russian was
featured on Echo of Moscow radio station, Russia-K channel and the website
Polutona. Polina’s publications in Russian include poems in <em>Aloud, Poems
About Ourselves</em>, (Ridero, Moscow, 2016), <em>Pashnya, Almanac </em>(CWS,
Moscow, 2016), <em>Lost Poetry Front 6</em> (Volgograd, 2017), <em>Lost Poetry
Front 7 </em>(Volgograd, 2018) and her short story <em>Ivan’s Choice </em>in
the short story anthology <em>Twist On The Sprat Can </em>(Eksmo, 2019). Her
debut poetry collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Name Is</i>
was published by Dedalus Press. She is featured in the Forward Prizes Book of
Poetry 2022. <span class="mark4855z7frj">Polina</span> is a recipient of Arts
Council Ireland Literature Bursary Award for 2021. Her work appeared in a
number of journals and anthologies, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Local Wonders</i> (Dedalus Press, 2021) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Writing Home: New Irish Poets</i> (Dedalus Press, 2019). </span>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over The Edge is inviting you to the February
Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, February 24<sup>th</sup>,
6.30-8pm </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always particularly welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748. <br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous
financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts
Council. </b></span>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-39844944687131575512022-01-30T09:38:00.000+00:002022-01-30T09:38:02.139+00:002022 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase takes place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop! <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW-aVKyngKGOB1uT-JpmMTqwUiYdeMI8Y__p4uHlYIAgwrxqkCf3uz4iIly5hRuiF_bttynSDe_XulsOE1yzdE0hBoGfc7Fv6tMSS0p7eUjjdlJ0cfvXkJ4xQHV8lk6KoCt8BXcAhp6qr1O_4DiH1rYLKIgKFfKxnTGWxYQlIomA-ChQzDqw=s401" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="401" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW-aVKyngKGOB1uT-JpmMTqwUiYdeMI8Y__p4uHlYIAgwrxqkCf3uz4iIly5hRuiF_bttynSDe_XulsOE1yzdE0hBoGfc7Fv6tMSS0p7eUjjdlJ0cfvXkJ4xQHV8lk6KoCt8BXcAhp6qr1O_4DiH1rYLKIgKFfKxnTGWxYQlIomA-ChQzDqw=w400-h299" width="400" /></a></div><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The 2022 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring
</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Art O’Suilleabháin, Chandrika
Narayan-Mohan, Kate Ennals, Kenneth Hickey, Jo Slade, Agnieszka Filipek, Bernie
Crawford, Ger Duffy, Mary Lee, Jenny Horgan, Jenny Farrell,
Liz Quirke, Ben Keatinge, Lorna Shaughnessy, Denis Mockler, Rachel Coventry,
Danielle Holian, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Denise Nagle, Eileen Sheehan, Phil Lynch,
Ruth Quinlan, Winifred McNulty, Jessie Lendennie, John W. Sexton, Loretta
Stanley, Mary Madec, Kerri Sonnenberg, Kieran Murphy, Kevin Higgins, Mairead
O’Sullivan, Trish Bennett, Susan Millar DuMars, Jamie O’Halloran, Noel Monahan,
Joe Woods, & Aoife Lynch</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, and the anthologies<i> </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Local Wonders </i></b>(Dedalus Press), </span><span class="15gqbtuta5zvwkgntkvx90"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Land
of the Ever Young </span></i></b></span><span class="15gqbtuta5zvwkgntkvx90"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Culture Matters),</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">& </span><span class="15gqbtuta5zvwkgntkvx90"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Days
of Clear Light - A Festschrift in Honour of Jessie Lendennie & in
Celebration of Salmon Poetry at 40 </span></i></b></span><span class="15gqbtuta5zvwkgntkvx90"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Salmon
Poetry)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">will take place at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charlie
Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway</b> on <b>Friday, February, 11<sup>th</sup>
starting at 6pm</b>. The event will be jointly MCed by Kate Ennals and Kevin
Higgins. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br />
</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCeuj3oSFTlEK1179u7oeFcAu5vLnXd4hg7xmHqhLvtXo8GQH-za7j89xWmOgSsc0SHLIpmIwYoDPcUGHUKB0j-7VxZmQrrDcPzVL34SiF1vs4in1_50Vdc7gxyzhvQFen9xVuw8lCd9rR4ohJTZe0WsU6uMX_t5W8EmOzmk7zBqj8hBR9g=s2551" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2551" data-original-width="1666" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCeuj3oSFTlEK1179u7oeFcAu5vLnXd4hg7xmHqhLvtXo8GQH-za7j89xWmOgSsc0SHLIpmIwYoDPcUGHUKB0j-7VxZmQrrDcPzVL34SiF1vs4in1_50Vdc7gxyzhvQFen9xVuw8lCd9rR4ohJTZe0WsU6uMX_t5W8EmOzmk7zBqj8hBR9g=w261-h400" width="261" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br />
In this annual retrospective of the year just past, poets based in the West of
Ireland, who published a new collection of poems during 2021, are invited to
read three poems from the collection in question. There will also be readings
from the anthologies <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Local Wonders </i></b>(Edited by Pat Boran,
Dedalus Press), </span><span class="15gqbtuta5zvwkgntkvx90"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Land of the Ever Young</span></i></b></span><span class="15gqbtuta5zvwkgntkvx90"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> (Edited
by Jenny Farrell, Culture Matters), & <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Days of Clear Light - A Festschrift in
Honour of Jessie Lendennie & in Celebration of Salmon Poetry at 40</i></b> </span></span><strong><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Edited
by Nessa O’Mahony & Alan Hayes, Salmon Poetry), to </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which several Galway-based
poets contributed.</span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXotSHD5wamwklvk2gdi5eI6CN46_hL3KsajsFvMG6oKXaqgySQMRuNh24rSjOi10DhglLPUgnf4ufXqVse2caJXZdvorowteh5gOb1xqSSStfLW77b_j9Wq01TwiJcnzWPdN1Z9BliNmTmEa7tpkjShLddp0IO9lZDVdG2UyX7cjTMHSXvw=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="407" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXotSHD5wamwklvk2gdi5eI6CN46_hL3KsajsFvMG6oKXaqgySQMRuNh24rSjOi10DhglLPUgnf4ufXqVse2caJXZdvorowteh5gOb1xqSSStfLW77b_j9Wq01TwiJcnzWPdN1Z9BliNmTmEa7tpkjShLddp0IO9lZDVdG2UyX7cjTMHSXvw=w271-h400" width="271" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is Over The Edge’s first in person event for two
years. It will be broadcast on Facebook live. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifYR2jkHWl3X6KqS2csKi9KXfZ-S_FXv-tP34RY3gitIOPIXT1fB_lCn_qboNZOLZQstZ6PuNCNBM1zxQ2KbO0QmBsayO9GbXBpNzPkqFYw06Ut_r3zTbrYy7KwmUIRStuUVSOvdedg3wnxLmYjMETKsxAe0oG_EP7raibj9tzZ83U2o0FpA=s433" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifYR2jkHWl3X6KqS2csKi9KXfZ-S_FXv-tP34RY3gitIOPIXT1fB_lCn_qboNZOLZQstZ6PuNCNBM1zxQ2KbO0QmBsayO9GbXBpNzPkqFYw06Ut_r3zTbrYy7KwmUIRStuUVSOvdedg3wnxLmYjMETKsxAe0oG_EP7raibj9tzZ83U2o0FpA=w278-h400" width="278" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All welcome. There is no cover
charge. For further details phone 087-6431748.</span><br />
<br />
<b>Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of The
Arts Council, Poetry Ireland and Galway City Council</b>.</span></p>
<br />Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-9617127395840748092022-01-09T10:50:00.006+00:002022-01-09T10:52:51.180+00:00Deirdre Hines, John Noonan, & Daniel Wade PLUS launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47 at January Over The Edge: Open Reading as Over The Edge Celebrates 19th Birthday on Zoom <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Zoom on <b>Thursday, January 20<sup>th</sup></b>
<span> </span>at the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm
(local Galway time). The Featured Readers are <b>Daniel Wade,</b> </span><b><span lang="EN-US">John Noonan</span></b><b><span lang="EN-IE">,</span></b><span lang="EN-IE">
& </span><b><span lang="EN-IE">Deirdre Hines</span></b><span lang="EN-IE">. </span><span lang="EN-IE">The evening will also see the
launch, by Deirdre Hines, of issue fifteen of perhaps Ireland’s most exciting,
informative, and accessible poetry magazine </span><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/"><b><i><span>Skylight 47</span></i></b></a></span><span lang="EN-IE">, edited by
Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, & Ruth Quinlan. There will be readings by
contributors. </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #1d1b11;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">This
reading celebrates the nineteenth anniversary of the first ever Over The Edge
reading in Galway City Library and there will be an online birthday party
throughout, even possibly a birthday cake to celebrate the fact that Over The
Edge is now (easily) old enough to legally drink whiskey, drive a car, or join the
French Foreign Legion.</span></span> </span><span lang="EN-IE">The MC for the evening will be Susan
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born in Liverpool. She moved to Belfast shortly thereafter, and from there to
Letterkenny in Co. Donegal, where she now lives. She has written several plays,
of which “Howling Moons, Silent Sons” won the Stewart Parker Award fro Best New
Play in 1992. Pigsback Theatre Company produced it. She went on to write “Ghost
Acreage at Vixen Tine” for Passion Machine’s Songs of the Reaper Festival in
1994.Other plays include “A Moving Destiny”(1996) produced by Yew Theatre
Company and “Dreamframe” produced for Fishamble’s “Y2K” Festival. She was short
listed for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2010, and won the Listowel
Poetry Collection in 2011. Her </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debut </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">poetry collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Language of Coats</i> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was published by New
Island Pres</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in 2012</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> New poems have appeared
in Poetry Ireland Review, Abridged, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Boyne Berries,
The Bombay Review, The Lake, Crannóg, Elsewhere, and The Journal of Intelligent
Travel to name a few. Her poetry wards include being longlisted in The
Gregory O’Donohue Competition (2012), and in The Aryamati Poetry Prize (2019),
and shortlisted in The Allingham Poetry Prize (2018 and 2019). She reviews
poetry for Sabotage, Riggwelter, and the Dublin Review of Books. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Noonan</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a native of
Longford and now lives near Dundalk and is a member of Dundalk Writers ; his
work has been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry Ireland
Review</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crannóg</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight 47</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revival Press</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Drawn To the
Light Press</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pinewood Review</i>, and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poppy Road Review</i> [USA.] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boyne Berries</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">North West Words</i>. His first play "Winter Window" was
performed in 2018. <span class="marksf0885mnn">John</span>'s poetry has also been
included in some anthologies also shortlisted in many poetry competitions and
was the winner of The Goldsmith International Poetry Competition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daniel Wade</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span>is a writer from Dublin, Ireland. He is the
Hennessy New Irish Writing winner for April 2015 in The Irish Times. In January
2017, his play 'The Collector' was staged at the New Theatre, Dublin. His debut
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">poetry collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rapids</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> was published by Finishing Line Press in Au</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gust of 2021, whilst his novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Land Without Wolves</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> was published by Temple Dark Books in
September. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over The Edge is inviting you to the January Over
The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, January 20<sup>th</sup>, 6.30-8pm </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
new issue (no. 15 of Skylight 47) will be launched by Deirdre Hines after the
Featured Readers have finished. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar
DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPCAdMAXNktYbnB_nzhLPC4LWvRtxcjU1ZmgNTk3MJvGvuIuVpQdlXJtGQ5Aq0oJ6_wqtPZLxSXkuM29CF0h7EU7rasXaxN6EQR_vrt1lt6ZI-fELLmCL6PKL6CkpbsgGn2DF2/s340/Susan+%2526+Kevin+photo+to+accompany+GTI+Creative+Writing+Class+press+release+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="340" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPCAdMAXNktYbnB_nzhLPC4LWvRtxcjU1ZmgNTk3MJvGvuIuVpQdlXJtGQ5Aq0oJ6_wqtPZLxSXkuM29CF0h7EU7rasXaxN6EQR_vrt1lt6ZI-fELLmCL6PKL6CkpbsgGn2DF2/w400-h299/Susan+%2526+Kevin+photo+to+accompany+GTI+Creative+Writing+Class+press+release+.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />Creative Writing
for Beginners</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
with <b>Kevin Higgins</b> takes place one evening per week (Monday)
from 7-9.30pm (12 weeks). It commences on <b>Monday,
January 17<sup>th</sup>, 202</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2</span></b></span>. Advance booking is essential.
Places cost €200. Kevin Higgins will provide writing exercises for, and give
gentle critical feedback to, those interested in trying their hand at writing
stories, poems, or memoir.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To
book a place, go to <a href="https://www.gti.ie/parttime/courses/detail/5247">https://www.gti.ie/parttime/courses/detail/5247</a>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>Intermediate
Creative Writing</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
with <b>Susan Millar DuMars</b> takes place one evening per week
(Wednesday) from 7-9.30pm (12 weeks). It commences on <b>Wednesday,
January 19th</b>, 2022</span>. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €200.
This class is suitable for those who’ve participated in creative writing
classes before or begun to have work published in magazines. Flexible exercises
and work-shopping of assignments, together with the study of the works of
published writers, will help each class member to find their own writing voice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To
book a place, go to <a href="https://www.gti.ie/parttime/courses/detail/5294">https://www.gti.ie/parttime/courses/detail/5294</a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Both
classes will be conducted via Zoom in the usual friendly supportive manner that
have made Kevin and Susan’s regular in-person creative writing classes at
Galway Technical Institute so popular. Participants shouldn't worry about the
technology! Full details of precisely how the workshop will function online
will be explained to participants during the first session.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For further
information contact Galway Technical Institute, Father Griffin Road, Galway, phone
</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">091-581342 or email</span></span> </span><a href="mailto:gtiadulted@gretb.ie"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">gtiadulted@gretb.ie</span></a> <b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">or see </span></b><a href="http://www.gti.ie/"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.gti.ie</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p>
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<![endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">New
Year POETRY WORKSHOPS via GALWAY ARTS CENTRE</span></b></p>
<p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBXSmpFhi_4IpX34ok3ELIqHswEP5JpeYZnSuN2-Kk1QJhAW1kCgcuNldJvht0kFDT0oEStZmfy1pOWaHRt0dLKF5CRUgzt5F-PGbph5LCgj6z_ivo-BDz0ghyphenhyphenIaCtmYoPJP0v/s960/Kevin+hat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBXSmpFhi_4IpX34ok3ELIqHswEP5JpeYZnSuN2-Kk1QJhAW1kCgcuNldJvht0kFDT0oEStZmfy1pOWaHRt0dLKF5CRUgzt5F-PGbph5LCgj6z_ivo-BDz0ghyphenhyphenIaCtmYoPJP0v/w400-h300/Kevin+hat.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Starting
in January, <b>Galway Arts Centre</b> is offering aspiring poets a
choice of three online poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet <b>Kevin
Higgins</b>, whose best-selling first collection, <i>The Boy With No Face</i>,
published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best
First Collection by an Irish poet. Kevin’s second collection of poems, <i>Time
Gentlemen, Please</i>, was published in 2008 by Salmon Poetry and his poetry
is discussed in <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry</i>. His
third collection <i>Frightening New Furniture</i> was published in 2010 by
Salmon. His work also appears in the generation defining anthology<i> Identity
Parade –New British and Irish Poets </i>(Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010) </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;">and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems</i> (Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe
April 2014).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A collection of
Kevin’s essays and book reviews, <i>Mentioning The War</i>, was published by
Salmon Poetry in 2012. Kevin’s poetry has been translated into Greek, Spanish,
Italian, Japanese, German, Serbian, Russian, & Portuguese. In 2014 Kevin's
poetry was the subject of a paper 'The Case of Kevin Higgins, or, '</span><a href="http://georgiasam.blogspot.ie/2014/05/the-case-of-kevin-higgins-or-present.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Present
State of Irish Poetic Satire</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">' presented by David Wheatley at a
Symposium on Satire at the University of Aberdeen. He was
Satirist-in-Residence at the Bogman’s Cannon (2015-16). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'2016 - The Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins</i>' was published by </span><a href="http://www.nuascealta.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">NuaScéalta</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> in 2016; a pamphlet of Kevin’s
political poems <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Minister For Poetry
Has Decreed</i> was published, also in 2016, by the </span><a href="http://www.manifestopress.org.uk/index.php/publications2/48-the-minister-for-poetry-has-decreed"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Culture Matters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> imprint of the
UK based </span><a href="http://www.manifestopress.org.uk/index.php/publications2/48-the-minister-for-poetry-has-decreed"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Manifesto Press</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. His poems have
been praised by, among others, Tony Blair’s biographer John Rentoul, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Observer</i> columnist Nick Cohen, historian
Ruth Dudley Edwards, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday
Independent</i> columnist Gene Kerrigan; have been quoted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily Telegraph</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times </i>(UK), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Independent</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily
Mirror, Hot Press, Phoenix </i>magazine<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and
on<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Tonight With Vincent Browne</i>; and
read aloud by the film director Ken Loach at a political meeting in London. In
2016 </span><a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Stinging Fly</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> magazine
described Kevin as "</span><a href="http://www.stingingfly.org/sample/multimedia-revolution-poetry"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">likely the most
read living poet in Ireland</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">." He has published six collections of poetry
with Salmon, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Song of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Songs 2.0: New & Selected Poems</i>
(2017).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kevin has read his work at Arts
Council and Culture Ireland supported poetry events in Kansas City, USA (2006),
Los Angeles, USA (2007), London, UK (2007), New York, USA (2008), Athens,
Greece (2008); St. Louis, USA (2008), Chicago, USA (2009), Denver, USA (2010),
Washington D.C (2011), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (2011), Geelong,
Australia (2011), Canberra, Australia (2011), St. Louis, USA (2013), Boston,
Massachusetts, USA (2013), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amherst,
Massachusetts, USA (2013), & New Mexico, USA (2018). Kevin’s most recent
poetry collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sex and Death at
Merlin Park Hospital</i>, was published by Salmon Poetry (June 2019);<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> <span>one of the poems from which feature in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Galway Epiphany</i>, the final instalment of Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor
series of novels. </span></span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">His
poems have been broadcast on RTE Radio, Lyric FM, and BBC Radio 4. His book </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">The Colour Yellow & The Number 19:</span></span> </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly
Retain His Sanity During 2020</i> was published last year by Nuascealta. His
essay <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thrills & Difficulties: Being A
Marxist Poet In 21<sup>st</sup> Century Ireland</i> was published in pamphlet
form by Beir Bua Press this year. Kevin’s<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> sixth full poetry collection,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Ecstatic</i>, will be published by Salmon in March. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Each week Kevin will give participants a poetry
writing exercise for the following week and will offer each participant
constructive suggestions as to how her or his poem can become the best possible
poem it can be. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p>Kevin is an experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students
have gone on to achieve publication success. One of his workshop participants
at Galway Arts Centre won the prestigious Hennessy Award for New Irish Poetry, two
have won the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and yet another the Cúirt Poetry Grand
Slam, while several have published collections of their poems; two being
shortlisted for the Shine-Strong Award for Best First Collection of poems. In
2013 a group of his students set up the poetry newspaper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight 47</i>, which publishes new poems, reviews of poetry books and
opinion pieces about poetry related matters. Kevin teaches poetry on the NUIG
BA Creative Writing Connect programme and is Creative Writing Director for the
NUI Galway Summer School. Kevin is also co-organiser of the successful Over The
Edge reading series which specialises in promoting new writers. </p>
<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
workshops will all commence the week of Monday January 24<sup>th</sup>. They
will be conducted via Zoom in the usual friendly supportive manner that have
made Kevin's regular in-person poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre so
popular. Participants shouldn't worry about the technology! Full details of
precisely how the workshop will function online will be explained to
participants during the first session.</span>
</p><p> They will take place on<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/355-355-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-evening-online-remote-course"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tuesday evenings</b></a>, 7-8.30pm (first
class<b> </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tuesday,</span> January 25th</b>); on <a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/356-356-advanced-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-afternoon-online-remote-course"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thursday afternoons</b></a>, 2-4pm (first
class Thursday, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">January 27th</b>) and on
<a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/357-357-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-afternoon-online-remote-course"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Friday afternoons</b></a>, 2-3.30pm (first
class Friday, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">January 28th</b>).
</p><p> The Tuesday evening and Friday afternoon workshops are open to both complete
beginners as well as those who’ve been writing for some time. <b>The
Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced Poetry Workshop</b>, suitable
for those who’ve participated in poetry workshops before or had poems published
in magazines. The cost to participants is <b>€110</b>.
</p><p> <b>Places must be paid for in advance.</b> To reserve a place
contact reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886,
email <a href="mailto:info@galwayartscentre.ie">info@galwayartscentre.ie</a>,
or go to <a href="https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/355-355-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-evening-online-remote-course">https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/courses/355-355-poetry-with-kevin-higgins-evening-online-remote-course</a>
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Reading’ takes place on Zoom on <b>Thursday,
December 16th</b> at the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm (local Galway
time). The Featured Readers are<b> Sue
Pace, Odhrán Reidy, & Denise Commins</b>.</span> There will, as always at Over The
Edge: Open Readings, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. Anyone interested in
taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or message
the Over The Edge Facebook page </span><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of
the reading</b>. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The Over The
Edge end of year celebration will take place in the House Hotel, Galway
afterwards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="mark84ulkew4f"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Denise</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<span class="mark1nsxcakny">Commins</span></span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
is Galway born and bred. She is a retired National school teacher . She has
enjoyed attending Susan Millar DuMars creative writing classes at Galway Arts
Centre and, recently, via Galway Technical Institute. Denise mostly writes
poems based on memoir. She has previously read her work at the Over The Edge
open-mic in Galway City Library. An active participant in a number of book
groups over the years, writing is a hobby for Denise. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="markt6104pjle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Odhrán</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Reidy</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> lives in Co. Galway where he works with medical devices
during the day and plot devices in his spare time. He is a recovering cynic who
finds himself occasionally prone to debilitating fits of optimism. He writes
fiction and takes creative writing classes in Galway Technical Institute.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTapU2scV76o3hyphenhyphen3KQIldszgAx8aRYj-gw6lpoDoo5ZN99BEjHd1Gg4hMyVOKOEnC-rvW0CkHbUQFAh33bKcswThjH7PlvsqhcwsHbZkmk4U1zF0kiH-ShATf7Zv0SuX3bV0Cf/s286/Sue+Pace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="286" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTapU2scV76o3hyphenhyphen3KQIldszgAx8aRYj-gw6lpoDoo5ZN99BEjHd1Gg4hMyVOKOEnC-rvW0CkHbUQFAh33bKcswThjH7PlvsqhcwsHbZkmk4U1zF0kiH-ShATf7Zv0SuX3bV0Cf/w400-h400/Sue+Pace.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sue
Pace</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a fiction writer living in Washington State, USA. Her
stories have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies,
including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Raven Chronicles</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skive</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stringtown</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Other Voices</i>,
& <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">More Raw Material</i> – an
anthology inspired by Alan Sillitoe (Lucifer Press, 2015). Brett Evans, editor
of Prole Magazine (UK), said of Sue’s 2017 short story collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Driving Sharon Crazy</i>: “The characters
here...are so flawed that they are perfect. Humanity is what pumps blood
through these stories, and these stories are what make Sue Pace one of the most
human and exciting writers today.”<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over The Edge is inviting you to the December
Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, December 16<sup>th</sup>,
6.30-8pm </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span></p><p> <span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always particularly welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748. <br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous
financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts
Council. </b></span></p><p> </p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-21245801666694470962021-11-01T00:17:00.006+00:002021-11-01T09:35:55.031+00:00November Over The Edge: Open Reading with Gioconda Belli, Estelle Birdy, & Sacha Hutchinson <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The
November ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place on Zoom on <b>Thursday, November 18<sup>th</sup> </b>at
the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm (local Galway time). The Featured
Readers are <b>Sacha Hutchinson,</b> </span><b><span lang="EN-US">Estelle Birdy</span></b><b><span>,</span></b><span> & </span><b><span>Gioconda Belli</span></b><span>. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">There will, as always at Over The Edge:
Open Readings, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished</span>. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. Anyone interested in
taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or or register
their interest on the Over The Edge Facebook page <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899">https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899</a>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of
the reading</b>. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 114.75pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sacha Hutchinson</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is an eye
doctor working in Galway. She was born in Dublin. She attends a
weekly poetry workshop with Kevin Higgins and many Over The Edge events. Her
poetry has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ropes </i>2018,
in the 2018 and 2021 spring editions of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skylight 47</i>, the 2019 autumn edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Curlew</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inspired</i> volume 3, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live
Encounters</i> June 2020, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pendemic</i>
May 2021, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Drawn to the Light Press</i>
Febuary 2021, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry in Lockdown Archive</i>
UCD 2021 and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lothlorien Poetry Journal</i>
2021.She was shortlisted for Poetry for Patience<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2018 and 2019. She
was longlisted for Over the Edge New Writer of the Year
2018 and shortlisted in 2019. She received a Bachelor of Arts in art and
design in 2010. She has an interest in exploring the environmental message
through paint and poetry. </span>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8k-u6fGqS2V3ek0GOZrlQ1XP0HZBviZWm5xbnDnpqm0JHIamfdcioOaA_ve6O2RYXbVZMO8W9cK3Fc40jfENMl_aOODHRmduDjGLWPpgMqHDZHcWAosfjCj0knbQYo02la9z/s640/Estelle+Birdy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8k-u6fGqS2V3ek0GOZrlQ1XP0HZBviZWm5xbnDnpqm0JHIamfdcioOaA_ve6O2RYXbVZMO8W9cK3Fc40jfENMl_aOODHRmduDjGLWPpgMqHDZHcWAosfjCj0knbQYo02la9z/s320/Estelle+Birdy.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Estelle Birdy</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">describes
herself as “Louth and proud” but is a long-time resident of Dublin’s Liberties. She
is a graduate of UCD’s Masters in Creative Writing, with teachers Anne Enright
and Sebastian Barry. Her reviews and nonfiction have appeared in the <em>Sunday
Independent</em>, the <em>Irish Times </em>and others. She has won or been shortlisted
in Dalkey Creates, Penfro Book Festival, Verve Poetry Festival and IWC Novel
Fair competitions. Her debut novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ravelling,</i>
which has been described as “Fast-paced, funny and eye-popping, descending from
<em>Trainspotting</em>, <em>White Teeth </em>and <em>Milkman </em>in its
portrayal of urban life in the twenty-first century” is forthcoming from
Lilliput Press. Estelle received literature bursaries from the Arts Council in
both 2020 & 2021 for the short-story collection she is currently working
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcMBmpYMkJ0an4cdn_nt_oTaWS9tCyu62GHzmvC61TLxeDn1H5H2SvflyDCgS7J4-ccaPItACCQFJa84K5LspGygP8TSAwrez8AhoEyItRHJ_-lejmX66NnYBoznYR2ZTV-wdm/s240/Gioconda+Belli.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcMBmpYMkJ0an4cdn_nt_oTaWS9tCyu62GHzmvC61TLxeDn1H5H2SvflyDCgS7J4-ccaPItACCQFJa84K5LspGygP8TSAwrez8AhoEyItRHJ_-lejmX66NnYBoznYR2ZTV-wdm/w400-h400/Gioconda+Belli.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Gioconda Belli </b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is a Nicaraguan poet and novelist.
She’s had an active political life in her country as a feminist and defender of
human rights. Although she was part of the struggle to topple Somoza’s regime
and the Sandinista Revolution (1979), she split from the new sandinismo of
Daniel Ortega in 1993. She writes both poetry and novels. Her poetry has
received many prizes: Mariano Fiallos Gil prize, the Casa de las Americas
Prize, Generacion del 27 Prize, Ciudad de Melilla and <b>in 2020, the</b> <b>Jaime
Gil de Biedma prize</b> in Spain. Her first novel <b><i>The Inhabited Woman</i></b>
(1988) became a literary and commercial success and was awarded the <b>Best
Political Novel of the Year and the Anna Seghers award in Germany in 1989</b>.
For her novel <b><i>Infinity in the Palm of her Hand</i></b> (2008) she won <b>Seix
Barral’s Biblioteca Breve</b> and the <b>Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz prizes</b>.
In 2010 she was awarded the Latin American prize, “La Otra Orilla” for her
novel <b>El País de las Mujeres, </b> (<i>Womenland).</i> In 2019, she was
a finalist for the <b>III Mario Vargas Llosa Prize for her 2018 novel</b> <b>Las
Fiebres de la Memoria</b><i> (“Fevers of Memory</i>”). She’s written four
children’s books and a memoir of her guerrilla years: <b><i>The Country under
my skin. </i></b>PEN Germany awarded her the Hermann Kesten Prize in 2018 for
her defense of freedom of the press and her role as a women’s advocate. She’s a
member of the Nicaraguan Royal Academy of Letters and Chevalier des les Arts et
Letres of France. Her works have been translated in 20 languages.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Web
page: <a href="http://www.giocondabelli.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">www.giocondabelli.org</span></a> <u>Twitter: </u><a href="mailto::@GiocondaBelliP" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">@GiocondaBelliP</span></a></span><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Facebook: </span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GiocondaBelliP/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">https://www.facebook.com/GiocondaBelliP/</span></a></span>
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Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, November 18<sup>th</sup>,
6.30-8pm </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p> </p><p> <span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers
are always particularly welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar
DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The
Arts Council. </b></span></p><p> </p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-16651969323542516372021-10-17T00:35:00.004+01:002021-10-17T00:37:29.851+01:00October Over The Edge: Open Reading with Billy Hutchinson, Fiona Sampson, Rosita Sweetman & John Cunningham<p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The October ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place on on Zoom on Thursday, October 28th at the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm (local Galway time).</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is Over The Edge’s annual non-fiction special, at which all of the Featured Readers are writers of non-fiction; however poets and fiction writers are still very welcome at the open-mic. The Featured Readers are John Cunningham, Rosita Sweetman, Fiona Sampson, & Billy Hutchinson. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. Anyone interested in taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or register their interest on the Over The Edge Facebook page <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899/?__cft__[0]=AZUui6RUUJ5t1m_lhg7p2nzYnn_YZ3DMdTAx2ycHmIydD64oO8Qz1e5tGAJ5P5l9E7QiliTkWaGd5uuwNRJh-02r1dCtdF5rMIsUENfg8VWyNIgItU627TeXmrETHgXSBYc&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span class="nc684nl6"><span>https://www.facebook.com/Over-The-Edge-Literary-Events-712507866206899</span></span></a></span> between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of the reading. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.</span> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3a9__7QiXtYQ8i1I1exqOtqjqtuKfWvPT5rT861F54G1GdTLi-ob3LSRC1Nwp7p913rtbA5SC7Pn4KTur957SzXKn0VKPDJXWjSsxrBeon3LE_3V5YpaKW4Eq5eCwRUKw68ne/s729/John+Cunningham+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="619" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3a9__7QiXtYQ8i1I1exqOtqjqtuKfWvPT5rT861F54G1GdTLi-ob3LSRC1Nwp7p913rtbA5SC7Pn4KTur957SzXKn0VKPDJXWjSsxrBeon3LE_3V5YpaKW4Eq5eCwRUKw68ne/s320/John+Cunningham+.jpg" width="272" /></a></div></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><b>John Cunningham</b> lectures in history at NUI Galway and is co-director of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class. Published extensively on Irish social history and global labour history, he is editor with Ciaran McDonough of a forthcoming volume commissioned by ASP/Arden to mark the bicentenary of James Hardiman’s classic history of Galway. Galway Arts and Culture, 1820-2020 will be in the shops in November. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNqW-b3YW7nWoErBmcOLjdwCf9kpD8Q08ORjep5k3vCW5Zf0aNdVdCk15BeqgDb-JbYJA5eni9dv7-YZqh3dHSBx_xOGfSjpQ89kWb0iQ2_fGY4RjckHQBssobNoWSAp0qsqy/s1240/Rosita+Sweetman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1240" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNqW-b3YW7nWoErBmcOLjdwCf9kpD8Q08ORjep5k3vCW5Zf0aNdVdCk15BeqgDb-JbYJA5eni9dv7-YZqh3dHSBx_xOGfSjpQ89kWb0iQ2_fGY4RjckHQBssobNoWSAp0qsqy/s320/Rosita+Sweetman.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Born into a big political/legal family in Dublin <b>Rosita Sweetman</b> began writing when she was 10. She’s worked as a journalist with the Irish Press, the Irish Times, the Sunday Independent, as a ‘runner’ and secretary at BBC TV in London, and as a research assistant on RTE TV in Dublin. She has published three best selling books, On Our Knees (1972), On Our Backs, Sexual Attitudes in a Changing Ireland (1979) and a novel Fathers Come First (1974) recently re-published by the Lilliput Press (2015). In 2004 she co-produced an allergy cookbook with her children Chupi and Luke, What To Eat When You Can’t Eat Anything. She is acritic for the Irish Times, the Sunday Independent, and the Dublin Review of Books. Having a survived a marriage break up Rosita re-found her feminism sadly buried, along with her chutzpah. She passionately believes feminism is not about blaming men, or pushing a few women to the top so they can be ‘she-men’ for the patriarchy. It's about creating a world fit for everyone. Of everything she has created her two adult children Chupi and Luke are way and above the most precious. Her most recent book, Feminism Backwards – part memoir, part documentary – was published last year by Mercier Press. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr2b5tmAG1thyXnrYy4FrTvtCh3oHv7JlpY8XYk1GvcTRtUFIKaESeiTHaRv0PmttYX8AZXBSq33mvBlJkI2FYTUifQwcDDfVeHun7n_Gas130wa_u9dTFZFcD02-Ch7e02Nec/s1773/Fiona+Sampson+photo+please+credit+Ekaterina+Voskresenskaya.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="1773" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr2b5tmAG1thyXnrYy4FrTvtCh3oHv7JlpY8XYk1GvcTRtUFIKaESeiTHaRv0PmttYX8AZXBSq33mvBlJkI2FYTUifQwcDDfVeHun7n_Gas130wa_u9dTFZFcD02-Ch7e02Nec/s320/Fiona+Sampson+photo+please+credit+Ekaterina+Voskresenskaya.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>photo by Ekaterina Voskresenskaya </i><b><br /></b></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><b>Fiona Sampson</b> is a leading British poet and writer, published in thirty-eight languages, who has received a number of awards in the US, India and Europe. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, of the English Association and of the Wordsworth Trust, she’s published twenty-seven books and received an MBE for Services to Literature.Emeritus Professor of the University of Roehampton, she has served on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature and is a Trustee of the Royal Literary Fund. Other honours include the Newdigate Prize, Cholmondeley Prize, Hawthornden Fellowship, and numerous awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, Society of Authors, Poetry Book Society and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as well as variousnational Book of the Year selections.She recently received the 2019 Naim Frashëri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia, and the 2020 European Lyric Atlas Prize, Bosnia.She’s also a broadcaster and newspaper critic, librettist and literary translator, and was editor of Poetry Review 2005-12. Her internationally acclaimed In Search of Mary Shelley was shortlisted for the Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Prize, and Two-Way Mirror: The life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (UK - Profile; US – W.W. Norton) appeared to critical acclaim this spring.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLfxXT1ABwPSWB4zaPLEEVKDcydRom_FqiEPPsly6zdMYT__J886NDe3CcVSMV-UuaGVeuuONDfk885soNdUEIVi5TJQ8dsWMWIi7-3hOj2gzom0xN6KDnh0yHusDtbdpYfyNd/s2048/Billy+Hutchinson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLfxXT1ABwPSWB4zaPLEEVKDcydRom_FqiEPPsly6zdMYT__J886NDe3CcVSMV-UuaGVeuuONDfk885soNdUEIVi5TJQ8dsWMWIi7-3hOj2gzom0xN6KDnh0yHusDtbdpYfyNd/s320/Billy+Hutchinson.jpg" width="217" /></a></div> <b>Billy Hutchinson</b> is the current leader of the Progressive Unionist Party and a Belfast City Councillor for the Court Ward. In the early 1970s Billy was involved in the formation of the Young Citizen Volunteers and was later influential in brokering the loyalist ceasefire of 1994. He was involved in the negotiations which led to the Belfast Agreement on Good Friday 1998 and was nominated by the UVF as their interlocutor with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning chaired by General John de Chastelain. Billy’s memoir, My Life In Loyalism, was published by Irish Academic Press last November. <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://irishacademicpress.ie/product/my-life-in-loyalism/?fbclid=IwAR1waapybQIq6cKqeWb_Ep_GuMgjcyVWc3DGDGeWOvUtLgQH8WHj6uK3X4s" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://irishacademicpress.ie/product/my-life-in-loyalism/</a></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span> </span> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Over The Edge is inviting you to the October Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, October 28th, 6.30-8pm </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549?fbclid=IwAR0ILGQi36GmTSemGjCvA4HmNw5HN0D3XEZm8_nPSa4cM94eFDLQFiQ5s_g" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</a></span> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always especially welcome. For further details phone 087-6431748.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council. </div></div></span><p></p>Over The Edge Literary Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10919940548219185041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37196282.post-1734846361369953052021-09-19T13:10:00.003+01:002021-09-19T13:10:55.730+01:00September Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom with Hannah Lowe, D’or Seifer, & Liz O’Riordan <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place on Zoom on <b>Thursday, September 30th</b> at the usual
Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm (local Galway time). The Featured Readers are <b>Liz O’Riordan,</b> </span><b><span lang="EN-US">D’or Seifer</span></b><b><span>,</span></b><span> & </span><b><span>Hannah Lowe</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> There will, as always at Over The
Edge: Open Readings, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. Anyone interested in
taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or email </span><a href="mailto:over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> between 6pm and
6.30pm on the evening of the reading. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Liz O’Riordan</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> lives in Galway City. She
has participated in creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute and
read her work at the Over The Edge open-mic. Her writing has been published in
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vox Galvia</i> page in The Galway
Advertiser. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">D'or Seifer</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">
lives in Limerick. She contributes to poetry gatherings, such as <i>Filí </i></span><i><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: NL;">an T</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">í Bháin</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">, and
<i>On the Nail</i>. D’or co-runs the online poetry series <i>Lime Square Poets</i>.
Previous to this, she co-ran the <i>Not the Time to be Silent </i>series<i>.</i> Her
work has appeared in<i> Skylight 47</i>, The Galway Advertiser's </span><i><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Vox Galvia</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> page, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spilling
Cocoa Over Martin Amis, <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwij_ZyKyIHzAhWmRkEAHRzuAkQQFnoECAwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Flothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com%2F2021%2F06%2Ffour-sublime-poems-by-dor-seifer.html&usg=AOvVaw0zHsjp62qprQwQSblEkwC7"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Lothlorien Poetry Journal, </span><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; mso-themecolor: text1;">and </span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Pendemic. </span></a></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqx-DOP0UTedU3yibIfNJOSIm553K0C6xnPTn8_oASYPUo6y-sH82V1TG6UzAjSiTSYs1Eg0yseO-gpKMKuXokh4KU7RIZOFsygPqc5aoYGRtc86XPTm-Vse46iSe9I8wuL_E/s768/Hannah+Lowe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqx-DOP0UTedU3yibIfNJOSIm553K0C6xnPTn8_oASYPUo6y-sH82V1TG6UzAjSiTSYs1Eg0yseO-gpKMKuXokh4KU7RIZOFsygPqc5aoYGRtc86XPTm-Vse46iSe9I8wuL_E/s320/Hannah+Lowe.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hannah Lowe</b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> was born in Ilford
to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father. She has lived in London,
Brighton and Santa Cruz, California. She studied American Literature at the
University of Sussex and has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies, and a PhD in
Creative Writing from Newcastle University. She has worked as a teacher of
literature, and is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University. Her
pamphlet <i>The Hitcher</i> (The Rialto, 2011) was widely praised. Her first
book-length collection <i>Chick</i> (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) won the 2015 Michael
Murphy Memorial Prize, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First
Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney
Centre Prize for Poetry, and was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next
Generation Poets 2014 promotion. This was followed by two pamphlets,<i> R
x</i> (sine wave peak, 2013) and<i> Ormonde</i> (Hercules Editions, 2014), and
her family memoir <i>Long Time No See</i> (Periscope, 2015). She also read from
<em>Long Time, No See</em> on BBC Radio 4's<em> Book of the Week</em> in 2015.
Her second full-length collection, <i>Chan</i>, was published by Bloodaxe in
2016, followed by a pamphlet, <em>The Neighbourhood</em> (Out-Spoken Press) in
2019. Her third full collection, <em>The Kids</em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), is
the Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn 2021. She has been poet in residence
at Keats House, and in 2020 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society
of Authors. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over The Edge is inviting you to the
September Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, September 30<sup>th</sup>,
6.30-8pm </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meeting ID: 738 901 3549</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers
are always particularly welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar
DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748. <br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The
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