The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 29th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Art Stringer, Ron Houchin & Kernan Andrews. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which received a very healthy number of entries again this year.
Kernan Andrews is from Galway and is the arts
editor and political correspondent of the Galway Advertiser. He writes
short stories in his spare time and has been published in The Galway Review.
He has read his work at Cúirt 2013; as part of the launch for NUI
Galway's theatre events in the Galway Fringe Festival 2013; and at numerous
Over The Edge open mics.
Kernan Andrews
Art Stringer is the author of three
collections of poems, Channel Markers (Wesleyan University Press), Human Costume (Salmon Poetry) and, most
recently, Late Breaking, which was
published in February by Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in such journals
as The Nation, Antaeus, The Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner,
Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, and in Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West
Virginia. He also edited and introduced an edition of Louise McNeill’s
Paradox Hill (West Virginia University Press). For twenty-four years, he has
taught writing and literature at Marshall University.
Art Stringer
Ron Houchin was born in San Diego, California, and raised from the age of three in
Huntington, West Virginia. He comes from a family of factory workers,
coal miners, and farmers who have always lived in Appalachia. For thirty
years he taught in an Ohio public school in the southernmost tip of Ohio. His most recent books are The Quiet Jars, a new and selected poetry collection, published last
spring by Salmon Publishing and a short story collection, Tales Out Of School, published in December from Wind Publications
of Kentucky. Louisiana State University Press
will publish a new volume of his poems, The
Man Who Saws Us In Half, this autumn in its Southern Messenger
Series. Ron lives in a haunted house, built by the grandson of an
ex-slave, on the banks of the Ohio River.
Ron Houchin
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.