The
June Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents by fiction writers and poets, Niamh Boyce, Paul Duffy, William Wall, Michael J. Whelan, & Susan Millar DuMars. Paul Duffy is 2015 Over The
Edge New Writer of The Year and will read his winning story. Niamh Boyce is the judge for 2016 Over The
Edge New Writer of The Year.
The event will take
place at The
Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish Arch,
Galway on Thursday,
June 30th, 8pm. All are welcome.
There is no cover charge.
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| Niamh Boyce |
Niamh Boyce won the overall Hennessy XO New Writer of The Year and the Emerging Poet Category for
her poem 'Kitty'. Her poetry has also been highly commended in The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. Her first novel, The Herbalist (Penguin Ireland) won
Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2013, and was long listed for the
IMPAC Award. Her stories have been adapted for stage, broadcast, published in
literary magazines and anthologized, most recently in 'The Long Gaze Back -
Irish Women Writers' and 'The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction.' Niamh was
shortlisted for the Francis McManus Short Story Competition 2011, the
Hennessy Literary Awards 2010, the Molly Keane Award 2010 and the WOW
Award 2010, her stories can be found in magazines such as The Moth,
Crannóg, Revival, Boyne Berries, Poetry Bus, The
Stony Thursday Book and New Irish Writing Magazine. Originally
from Athy, Co Kildare Niamh now lives with her family in Ballylinan, Co Laois.
Niamh is the judge for 2016 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year, the deadline
for which is August 3rd http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2014/10/2015-over-edge-new-writer-of-year-to-be.html .
Paul Duffy is a former Galway City resident now living in
Wicklow. Paul is currently working on a collection of short stories. He is 2015
Over The Edge New Writer of The Year and will be reading his winning story
‘Redolence’.
Salmon Poetry recently published Susan Millar DuMars’ fourth collection of poems Bone Fire.
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| William Wall |
William Wall is the author of four novels, including This is
the Country (Sceptre), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; three
collections of poetry; and one volume of short stories. He has won the Virginia
Faulkner Award, The Sean O’Faoláin Prize, several Writer’s Week prizes and The
Patrick Kavanagh Award. He was shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award, the
Irish Book Awards, the Raymond Carver Award, the Hennessy Award and numerous
others. His work has been translated into many languages, including Italian,
Dutch, Portuguese, Latvian, Serbian and Catalan. In 2014 William was part of
the Italo-Irish Literature Exchange, organised through The Irish Writers’
Centre, which toured Italy with readings in Italian and English. In March 2010
he was Writer in Residence at The Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco. He was
a 2009 Fellow of The Liguria Centre for the Arts & Humanities. He lives in
Cork. His short story collection Hearing Voices, Seeing Things was
published this year by Doire Press.
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| Michael J. Whelan |
Michael J. Whelan joined the Irish Defence
Forces in 1990, serving on tours of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper. He
has received the General Officer Commanding Irish Air Corps Award, the Paul
Tissandier Diploma and the Tallaght Person of the Year Award (Arts &
Culture section). Michael’s poetry has been widely published, including in The
Hundred Years’ War: Anthology of Modern War Poems (Bloodaxe) and his work
was the subject of a centenary of the Great War exhibition entitled Landscapes
Of War & Peace 1914-2014: War Poetry & Peacekeeping. He won 2nd Place
in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awards, 3rd Place in the Jonathan Swift Creative
Writing Awards and a commendation in the Carousel Creates Creative Writing
Awards, as well as having received an Arts Bursary from South Dublin Arts
Office. In 2012 he was selected to read at the Poetry Ireland Introductions
series. Michael’s debut poetry collection Peacekeeper is recently
published by Doire Press.
There is no
entrance fee.
For further
information contact 087-6431748.
Over The Edge
acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support ofthe Arts
Council, Poetry Ireland,
and Galway City Council.
