Since
its inception in 2006 the New Writing
Showcase 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 – Rena Garrett, Eileen P Keane, & Una Mannion – and Paul Bregazzi, the
winner of the Cúirt NewWriting Poetry Prize 2017. The MC for the event will be regular Over The Edge
host Susan Millar DuMars. It takes place on Wednesday, April 26th, 3pm, at The Town Hall Theatre. Entry is free of charge. All welcome.
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| Rena Garrett |
Rena Garrett is a graduate
MA in Writing student in NUIG. She has also participated in poetry
workshops at Galway Arts Centre. Her poetry has been published in The Moth
Magazine, and Spontaneity.org and was
shortlisted for the Galway Rape Crisis Centre Short Story Competition 2016. Rena
was a Featured Reader at the August 2016 Over The Edge: Open Reading.
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| Eileen P Keane |
Eileen P
Keane is from North Connemara, Co. Galway. She last year
completed an MA in Writing at NUI Galway.
Eileen has written and performed for theatre and stage and her CD Spaces
was released in 2014. She writes Poetry, Memoir and non-fiction. She is also a
Singer/Songwriter and has performed at the: Electric Picnic, Lunasa Festival
Sligo, and at the Clifden Arts Festival. Her songs have featured on RTE Radio
and Television. Her poems appear in the latest edition of the Galway Review and
her Flash Fiction was shortlisted for Allingham Festival 2015. Eileen was a
Featured Reader at the March 2016 Over The Edge: Open Reading.
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| Una Mannion |
Una Mannion teaches Performing Arts in IT
Sligo. In March 2016, her poetry was published in the New Irish Writing page in
The Irish Times and her fiction was
shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize. She won the Yeats' Society's
Seamus Heaney Prize and came second place in Dromineer Flash Fiction 2015.
She has been shortlisted in the Listowel, Bridport, Fish Memoir and other
competitions. She recently completed an MA in Writing at NUI Galway. She lives
in Sligo with her husband and three children. Una was a Featured Reader
at the May 2016 Over The Edge: Open Reading. Una won the Emerging Poetry Award
at this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards and is also the winner of the Fiction section
in this year’s Cúirt
New Writing Prize.
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| Paul Bregazzi |
Paul Bregazzi is a Special
Needs Teacher in West Dublin. His poetry has appeared widely and been
anthologised on both sides of the Atlantic in Crannóg, The
Stony Thursday Book, Skylight 47, Southword, The
Stinging Fly, Magma (U.K), Fields Magazine (Univ
of Texas at Austin), The French Literary Review (Fr), Thema
(U.S.), The Ofi Press (Mexico). He has been shortlisted for the
Bridport prize, the RSPB/Rialto Nature Poetry Competition and The Haiku
Foundation U.S. Touchstone Awards. He won 2nd place in Magma (U.K.) Editors’
Short Poetry Prize and the Oliver Goldsmith International Poetry
Competition. He is co-founder of the Dublin poetry group Listeners and
was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introduction Series 2015. Paul is the winner
of the poetry section in this year’s Cúirt New Writing
Prize.
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.
