2013 OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR-SHORTLIST!

2013 OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR 

The winners will be announced at the October Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, October 31st, 6.30-8pm.

THE SHORTLIST

which was announced at 

the Over The Edge Culture Night event @ Kenny's 

is as follows:

Sheila Armstrong, Dublin

for her story 'To Come Home'

Bernie Ashe, Galway 

for 'Crow' & other poems

Eileen Bennett, Co, Galway

for her story 'John Byrne Rides Again'

Marie Cadden, Co. Galway 

for 'Up To Scratch' & other poems

Alvy Carragher, Galway

for 'Broken Symmetry' other poems

Brian Colgan, Galway 

for 'From Babi Yar to Bethlehem'

Teresa Coleman, Mayo

for her story 'Elizabeth'

Denis Collins, Wexford 

for 'Pete' & other poems

Maurice Devitt, Dublin 

for 'A Stranger in the House' & other poems

Cal Doyle 

for 'The Heist' & other poems

Kevin Doyle, Cork

for his story 'Whatever It Was About Men'

Erin Fornoff, Dublin

for 'On Planes' & other poems

Sean Glynn, Co. Galway

for his story 'Hackett's Hole'

Sandra Harris, Dublin

for her story 'A Death'

Mary Healy, Kilkenny 

for her story 'What's Worth Keeping'

Aidan Hynes, Dublin

for his story 'Hair'

Anne Irwin, Galway

for 'The Stations of the Crossbar' & other poems

Katherine Janeczeck, Galway 

for 'Genesis' & other poems

Rupert Jenkins, Scotland

for his story 'Tender To The Shore'

Susan Kelly, Mayo

for 'Mother Superior' & other poems

Brian Kirk, Dublin 

for his story 'The Creaseless Society'

Jennifer Matthews, Cork

for 'Planning Permission' & other poems

Anna McCarthy, New York

for her story 'An Inventory of Slights'

Pat McDonnell, Galway

for his story 'Three Sisters in the Sky'

Christopher Meehan, Co. Galway 

for 'The Ever Changing Definition of Youth in Revolt'

Brendan Murphy, Co. Galway

for his story'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Sinner'

Catherine Myddleton-Evans, London, UK

for 'under the sea' & other poems

Gerard O’Brien, Co. Galway

for his story 'Nissen Hut'

Clare O’Reilly, Kildare 

for her story 'Hey Presto!

 Eleanor O’Reilly, Wicklow

for her story 'Classifieds, Fags And Coconut Creams' 

Anita Ouellette, Massachusetts, USA 

for 'Almost Afraid To Talk To God While Others Are Listening'

Micheál Ó’Síocháin, Cork

for his story 'The Last Days of The Pavilion'

Maeve O’Sullivan, Dublin 

for 'Agent of Confusion' & other poems

Christine Paintner, Galway

for 'Remember' & other poems

Valerie Ryan, Kildare

for her story 'The Postman'

Breda Wall Ryan, Wicklow

for 'Inheritors' & other poems

Rejini Samuel, Galway

for her story 'The Alleyway'

Ashlie Schweitzer, Galway

for her story 'Prairie Lights'

Fiona Scoble, Galway

for her story 'What have you brought for us?'

Breda Spaight, Limerick

for 'Final Cut' & other poems

Ekaterina Tikhoniouk, Laois

for her story 'Katie'

Alison Wells, Wicklow

for her story'The Memory-Jar'

Dimitra Xidous, Dublin

for 'The science of hands' & other poems

We would like to thank our competition sponsors: 

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

ISupply Flood Street, Ward’s Hotel,

Kenny’s Bookshop & Derek Nolan T.D

Competition judge Sarah Clancy

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED

@ the October Over The Edge: Open Reading

in Galway City Library,

Thurs October 31st,6.30-8pm 

Doire Press invites you to the launch of FEAR KNOT by Susan Lindsay SATURDAY!

Open Writing Workshop with Kevin Higgins @ University Hospital Galway

Poet; Kevin Higgins will be in UHG THIS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2nd from 12noon to 2pm for an open workshop. The workshop will take place on the second floor in the Lecture room between St. Pius’ and St. Nicholas’ ward.

All staff, patients and visitors to UHG are welcome to drop in to the session anytime during the two hours. Kevin will give participants creative writing exercises to get them writing. People who have written something already and would like feedback or advice are welcome to bring in their poems or stories. 

The workshops will take place fortnightly on Wednesday October 2^nd, Wednesday October 16^th, Wednesday October 30^th, Wednesday November 13^th, Wednesday November 27^th & Wednesday, December 11^th

Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967, and grew up in Galway City where he still lives. He is co-organiser of the highly successful Over The Edge literary events. He facilitates  poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre; teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute and on the Brothers of Charity Away With Words creative writing programme for people with disabilities. He is also Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital and the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser. He was a founding co-editor of The Burning Bush literary magazine. His first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005 and was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in March 2008 by Salmon. One of the poems from Time Gentlemen, Please, ‘My Militant Tendency’, featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009.  His work also features in the anthology Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). Frightening New Furniture is his third collection of poems and was published in 2010 by Salmon Poetry. Kevin has read his work at most of the major literary festivals in Ireland and 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, USA (2013) & Amherst, Massachusetts (2013). Mentioning The War, a collection of his essays and reviews was published in April 2012 by Salmon.  Mentioning The War has been described by Clare Daly T.D. as “a really good and provocative read. It will jolt you; it will certainly touch you; make you laugh; maybe make you snarl a little bit as well, depending on where you come from or what your background is.” Kevin’s fourth collection of poetry, The Ghost In The Lobby, will be published by Salmon Poetry in early 2014.

For further details contact

Margaret Flannery

Arts Director

Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust

Galway University Hospitals

Newcastle Road

Galway

Tel: +353 (0)91 544979

Email: Margaret.Flannery@hse.ie

Mary Costello Featured Reader & Judge at Fifth Annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam

 

After the event’s huge success in the past four years, Over The Edge presents its fifth annual fiction slam with Featured Reader, Mary Costello, at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway on Friday, October 11^th, 8pm.

Mary Costello is originally from East Galway and now lives in Dublin. Her stories have been widely anthologised and published in New Irish Writing and in The Stinging Fly. Her debut short story collection, The China Factory, was published last year by The Stinging Fly press and has received a very warm critical response internationally. Long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, The China Factory has been described by The Sunday Independent as "twelve perfect stories." Mary Costello is a rising Irish literary star. 

Poetry slams have provided many emerging poets with an important platform over the past decade, but now it’s the fiction writers’ turn. The first twelve fiction writers to make it to The Kitchen @ The Museum on the evening of Friday, October 11^th and register will be guaranteed a place in the slam. 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 two audience members and Mary Costello. Three writers will go through to the second round and the prize for the winner is a bottle of wine.

There is no entrance fee. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.

  

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of The Arts Council and Galway City Council.