The
July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents an exciting variety of poetry, fiction,
and drama by Siobhan Campbell, Frankie
Gaffney, Catherine Hunter, David E. Butler, Teresa Sweeney, & Lisa Frank. The event will take place on Thursday, July 13th, 6.30pm at Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.
Siobhán Campbell was born in
Dublin, she is a graduate of University College, Dublin. She spent a number of
years in New York and San Francisco and worked as Managing Editor of Wolfhound
Press before joining Faculty at Kingston University in London. Widely published
in the USA and UK, she has won awards in the National, Troubadour and Wigtown
International competitions. Her most recent poetry collection Heat Signature was published by Seren
earlier this year.
Frankie
Gaffney grew up
in the Dublin's North Inner-City. His first novel, Dublin Seven,
published by Liberties Press to critical acclaim, charts a young man's descent
into the criminal underworld of the city. The Irish Times described it as “Ulysses
meets Love/Hate”.
Catherine Hunter is a Canadian poet, novelist, editor and professor. She is the
author of several collections of poetry, including Necessary Crimes and Latent Heat, which
received the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year in 1997.
She is also the author of three literary mysteries: Queen of Diamonds, The Dead of Midnight and Where Shadows Burn. She is a
professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.
David E Butler is a widely performed playwright, author, and retired congregational minister from Maine who is currently resident in County Clare.
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 and was selected to read at the 2015 Cúirt Over The Edge New Writers’ Showcase reading.
Lisa Frank was born and raised in Los Angeles but lived in the Pacific Northwest for several years before moving to Ireland in 2007. She won second place in the 2016 Francis MacManus Award and was a joint-winner of the 2015 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair competition. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University (where Paula Meehan also received her MFA) and is the editor of Galway Stories, featuring many of Ireland’s best fiction writers, including Kevin Barry, Mary Costello and Mike McCormack. Having taught creative writing in a variety of settings, including a mens’ prison, she now lives in Connemara with her partner and is co-director of Doire Press.
David E Butler is a widely performed playwright, author, and retired congregational minister from Maine who is currently resident in County Clare.
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 and was selected to read at the 2015 Cúirt Over The Edge New Writers’ Showcase reading.
Lisa Frank was born and raised in Los Angeles but lived in the Pacific Northwest for several years before moving to Ireland in 2007. She won second place in the 2016 Francis MacManus Award and was a joint-winner of the 2015 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair competition. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University (where Paula Meehan also received her MFA) and is the editor of Galway Stories, featuring many of Ireland’s best fiction writers, including Kevin Barry, Mary Costello and Mike McCormack. Having taught creative writing in a variety of settings, including a mens’ prison, she now lives in Connemara with her partner and is co-director of Doire Press.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial
support of the Arts
Council,
Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.