The February ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in
Galway City Library on Thursday, February
27th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Michael Farry, Kate Ennals & Alvy Carragher. There will as usual be an open-mic
after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome. The evening will also see the announcement
of details of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition,
which will then be made available here on our website.
Alvy Carragher
is currently a student on the MA in Writing at NUI Galway. Her poetry has been
commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue Award, highly commended in the 2013 Over
the Edge New Writer of The year competition and she came third in the 2013
Doire Press Poetry Competition. Alvy is the current Connaught Slam Poetry
Champion. Her blog “with all the finesse of a badger” won best humour blog in
the Irish Blog Awards and is a finalist for blog of the year in the Samsung
Digital Media Awards 2014.
Kate Ennals completed the MA in Writing in NUI Galway last year. She writes both poetry and fiction. She currently facilitates both poetry and writing workshops in Cavan. Her writing has been published in Crannog, Skylight 47 and the Galway Review. She has had stories and poems in the anthology, From Ballyjamesduff to Belleek, which was published by the International Fund for Ireland. And Kate features in the new anthology, The Adventure Hat, published by the Black Fort Writers. She won third Prize in the Dead Good Poetry Competition, run by the Galway Rape Crisis Centre in May 2013. Kate’s writing will also to be published in the next edition of Burning Bush 2 and Ropes 2014.
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Michael Farry is a retired primary school teacher who writes both
poetry and non-fiction. His poetry collection, Asking for Directions, was published by Doghouse in 2012 and his
book Sligo: The Irish Revolution 1912-23,
was published by Four Courts Press in the same year. He is founder and for many
years was editor of Boyne Berries
magazine published by Boyne Writers Group.
As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome at the open-mic. THE EVENING WILL ALSO SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF DETAILS OF THIS YEAR’S OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION. The MC for the evening will be Kevin Higgins. For further details phone 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.