Over The Edge Culture Night Event @ Kenny's

Over The Edge is holding a special Culture Night open-mic, with prizes for the best readers, at Kenny’s Bookshop & Gallery, Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road, Galway on Friday, September 19th, starting 6pm. The event is open to both poets and prose writers and all are welcome to participate. 

The evening will be MCed by Kevin Higgins and will also see a reading from their long-listed stories and poems by some of the writers on the long list for the 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, for which Kenny’s is one of the generous sponsors. All long-listed writers, who can make it to Kenny’s on the evening, are invited to come and read. 

The long list for 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year is available here.

ClifdenArts Week reading: Skylight 47/The Thursday Afternoon Advanced Poetry Workshop

Skylight 47/The Thursday Afternoon Advanced Poetry Workshop

reading at ClifdenArts Week

on Friday 19/09/2014, starting 2:00 pm

@ Clifden Library, Market Street Clifden, Co Galway Ireland

Phone: 095 21092

Participants in the Thursday afternoon Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre will be reading their poems, including some poems from issue 3 of Skylight 47, the groups acclaimed poetry paper.

For full details fo the reading see the Clifden Arts Week website.  

2014 OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR - THE LONGLIST

2014 OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

LONGLIST

Niall Ó’Sioradáin, Dun Laoighaire

Meadbh NÍ Eadhra, Co. Galway

John Haskins, Dublin

Phyl Herbert, Dublin

Margaret Cahill, Limerick

Creighton O’Sullivan, Limerick

Mary O’Rourke, Galway

Eileen Keane, Kildare

Carol Farrelly, Edinburgh

S.J. Ryan, Canada

Bart Van Goethem, Belgium

Rory Duffy, Westmeath

Alison Wells, Wicklow

Chris Connolly, Dublin

Rachel Coventry, Galway

Maurice Devitt, Dublin

Dagmar Drabent, Galway

Kate Ennals, Cavan

Anne Irwin, Galway

Lorraine Kelly, Galway

Brian Leeson, Belfast

Jennifer Matthews, Cork

Christopher Meehan, Co. Galway

Sighle Meehan, Galway

Mary McGill, Galway

Anita Coffey Ouellette, Massachusetts, USA

Micheál Ó’Síocháin, Cork

James O’Toole, Galway

Christine Paintner, Galway

Valerie Ryan, Kildare

Maresa Sheehan, Carlow

Deborah Watkins, Co. Galway

Barry Kavanagh, Norway

Ava Sedgwick, Co. Clare

Adam Trodd, Dublin

Peter Bearder, Oxford

Averil Meehan, Donegal

Sharon Quigley, Galway

Ciara Broderick, Co. Galway

Joe Crotty, Galway

Selina Oram, Roscommon

Liz Harding, Dublin

Elizabeth Reapy, Mayo

Andrea Lutz, Galway

Teresa Sweeney, Galway

Michelle Coyne, Galway

Roz Spafford, Canada

Anne Donnelly, Mayo

Mark A. Keane, Edinburgh

Anne O’Neill, Kerry

Edel Burke, Mayo

Coirle Mooney, Galway

Lauren Foley, Australia

Tanya Farrelly, Dublin

Rory James, Galway

Rachael Hegarty, Dublin

Matt Flesk, Galway

Roisín O’Donnell, Meath

Ruth Aylett, Edinburgh

Kieran Furey, Roscommon

Lindsey Bellosa, New York

Colette McAndrew, Dublin

Armel Dagorn, Nantes  

Rob Childers, Co. Galway

Connie Roberts, New York

Victoria Kennefick, Tralee

Marie MacSweeney, Drogheda

Michael J. Whelan, Dublin

Christian Wallace, Texas

Liz Quirke, Co. Galway

Stephen Byrne, Galway

Phil Lynch, Dublin

Dawn Wisniewski, Dublin

Angela Carr, Dublin

Bernie Ashe, Galway

Winifred McNulty, Donegal

Karen McDonnell, Clare

Patricia Bender, New Jersey

Ciaran O’Rourke, Dublin

Brian Stewart, Galway

Ruth Quinlan, Galway

We would like to thank our competition sponsors: 

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

ISupply Flood Street, Ward’s Hotel, Clare Daly TD, 

Kenny’s Bookshop & Derek Nolan TD

This year’s competition judge is Eleanor Hooker

THE LONGLISTED WRITERS ARE INVITED TO READ 

FROM THEIR LONGLISTED WORK

@ the Over The Edge Culture Night event 
@ Kenny’s Bookshop & Gallery,

Liosbán Retail Park

on Friday, September 19^th, 6.30pm

THE SHORTLIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED 
@ The September Over The Edge: Open Reading

on Thursday, September 25^th

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED

@ the October Over The Edge: Open Reading

in Galway City Library,

Thurs October 30^th  

September Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering with poets from Australia, Northern Ireland, & Galway

September Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Galway Arts Centre’s

Nuns’ Island Theatre

presents

Northern Irish poets

Maria McManus & Deirdre Cartmill,

Australian poet Teresa Bell,

Galway poet & writer Vinny Finn

PLUS

The AWAY WITH WORDS writers.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12^th, 8pm

The September Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by Galway based poet and writer Vinny Finn, visiting Australian poet Teresa Bell, Northern Irish poets Deirdre Cartmill & Maria McManus and the AWAY WITH WORDS writers.  The event will take place at Galway Arts Centre’s NUNS’ ISLAND THEATRE, Nuns’ Island, Galway on Friday, September 12th, 8pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.

Vinny Finn is a Psychotherapist based in Galway.  He has enjoyed some success in writing having won the Marie Edgworth Award for Poetry as well as the Windows Award.  He was involved in several projects with the Longford Arts Council and Poetry Ireland before moving to Galway.  His writing is influenced principally by spiritually and how it affects the mind, with a focus on psychotherapy, theology and philosophy as a constant background in his work.  He enjoyed the sporadic nature of poetry and how it blends well with an organic, holistic sense of self.  He is currently working on his first book, a true story and what may be described as a 'psychological noire'; expected (with publishers help) in 2015.

Vinny Finn

Teresa Bell is a writer, performer, teacher and director based in Sydney. Teresa’s performances are always unique and combine a blend of music, physical theatre, performance and the poetic. She was Founding Director of Australia’s first national poetry centre, Australian Poetry and prior to this was Artistic Director for Playworks, the national script development organisation. Teresa has directed performances and toured her work to nearly every state in Australia and overseas. Her directing and writing work have won numerous awards including the Wal Cherry, an AWGIE and the George Fairfax and Shelton Lea awards for performance. Teresa is appearing at an interdisciplinary conference titled ‘Making Sense of Madness’ at Oxford University in early September where she will be giving a paper and performing an extract from her new book before coming to Ireland to read her new work.  

Teresa Bell

Maria McManus is a poet and playwright. Maria's most recent publication is We are Bone (Lagan Press 2013). Her previous poetry includes The Cello Suites (Lagan Press 2009), which has been recorded with an original score composed and played by the cellist Tom Hughes.  Reading the Dog (Lagan Press 2006) her first collection of poetry, was runner up in the 2007 Strong Awards at the Poetry Now International Festival and was also short-listed for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writers Award.  In 2008  & 2012 she was awarded an Arts Council individual artist award. Of We Are Bone the poet Joan Newmann said ‘A joyful read as if you are coming towards each reader with your arms held out.’ 

Maria McManus

Deirdre Cartmill is a Belfast based poet, writer and screenwriter. She has published two poetry collections The Return of the Buffalo (Lagan Press, 2013) and Midnight Solo (Lagan Press, 2004). The Return of the Buffalo deals with grief and loss, and attempts to make sense of the seemingly meaningless, but this is always weighted with how suddenly, unexpectedly joyous life can be. Midnight Solo is written from the perspective of a generation who grew up through the conflict in the north of Ireland and their struggle to envision a new normality in a post-conflict society.  She received an Artists' Career Enhancement Scheme Award from the Arts Council in 2011 and spent a year affiliated with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University.

Deirdre Cartmill

Away with Words is an innovative arts project which enables people with intellectual disability to explore and develop their creativity through writing. Away with Words offers a wide range of theme based workshops and events facilitated by local writers who also support people to engage in the arts life of their community through participation in public readings and publication of their work. In 2012, a collection of their writing Jessica Casey & Other Works was published by Salmon and launched at the Cúirt Festival. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=257&a=217

There is no entrance fee.

For further information contact 087-6431748.

 Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of the Arts Council

and Galway City Council.

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