Since
its inception in 2006 the New
Writing Showcase has grown to become one of the most important platforms
for emerging writers in Ireland. This year’s Cúirt New Writing Showcase
features three participants from the Over the Edge literary series in Galway –
Alvy Carragher, Mary McGill, & Teresa Sweeney - Daniel Roy Connelly, the
winner of the Cúirt
New Writing Poetry Prize 2015, and
Sonya Gildea, the winner of the 2015
Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize.
The MC for the event will be regular Over
The Edge host Susan Millar DuMars. It takes place on Thursday, April 23rd,
4pm, at The Town Hall Theatre. Entry is free of charge. All welcome.
Alvy Carragher recently
completed the MA in Writing at NUI Galway. Her poetry has been commended in the
Gregory O’Donoghue Award, the 2013 Over the Edge New Writer of the year
competition and she came third in the 2013 Doire Press Poetry Competition. Alvy
was 2014 Connaught Slam Poetry Champion and her blog “with all the finesse of a
badger” won best humour blog in the Irish Blog Awards and was a finalist for
blog of the year in the Samsung Digital Media Awards 2014. Alvy was a Featured Reader at the February 2014 Over The Edge: Open
Reading.
Mary McGill lives in
Galway. Her fiction has appeared in The South Circular, The Bohemyth, Crannóg
and Wordlegs. In 2013, she was shortlisted for the Penguin / RTÉ Guide short
story competition and the Irish Times ‘Legends of the Fall’ competition. Mary
was also long listed for the 2013 Over the Edge award and short listed for the
2014 RTÉ Radio One Francis MacManus Award. Mary was a Featured Reader at the
August 2014 Over The Edge: Open Reading.
Teresa Sweeney is from county
Galway. She was short listed in the 2014 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year
competition. Her fiction has been published in Roadside Fiction, Number Eleven
Magazine, Wordlegs, Boyne Berries and she was a runner up in the WOW! Awards
2011. She was a Featured Reader at the November 2014 Over The Edge: Open
Reading.
Daniel Roy Connelly is a theatre director, writer
and professor of English literature and creative writing at John Cabot
University and The American University of Rome. He holds a PhD in Shakespeare's
'Othello' from The University of Saint Andrews and was the winner of the 2014
Fermoy International Poetry Festival Prize and a finalist in the 2015
Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Prize. He recently directed a sold-out
'Hedda Gabler' and returns to the stage next week at Rome's 'Teatro Arciliuto',
where he will play 'Ralph Wantage' in Bryony Lavery's 'Frozen'. Daniel is
the winner of the 2015
Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize.
Sonya Gildea was born in
County Cork, Ireland. She lives and works in Dublin, and the east coast of
Scotland. She is writing the poetry collection Apothecary; the short story collection, Heartscapes; and the debut novel, The Hours That God Sends. She has also received a number of awards
for screenwriting. She is the winner of the 2015
Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize.
Over The Edge
acknowledges the ongoing financial support of The Arts Council, Galway City Council,
and Poetry Ireland, and our ongoing partnership with the Cúirt Festival of
International Literature.
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