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 11th, 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 11th
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.
