After the event’s huge success in the past seven
years, Over The Edge presents its eighth annual fiction slam with Featured
Reader, Mike McCormack, at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish, Galway on Friday,
October 14th, 8pm.
Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer originally from Mayo but long resident in Galway City. His previous work includes the short story collection Getting it in the Head (1995), the novel Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. Mike’s most recent, widely acclaimed novel Solar Bones was published earlier this year by Tramp Press.
Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer originally from Mayo but long resident in Galway City. His previous work includes the short story collection Getting it in the Head (1995), the novel Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. Mike’s most recent, widely acclaimed novel Solar Bones was published earlier this year by Tramp Press.
The first twelve fiction writers to make it to The
Kitchen @ The Museum on the evening of Friday, October 14th and
register will be guaranteed a place in the slam. If you want to be sure of a
place, get there early! 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 Mike McCormack. Three writers will go through to
the second round and the prize for the winner is a bottle of excellent red 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, Poetry Ireland and Galway City Council.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland and Galway City Council.