2017 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year LONGLIST

FICTION

Adam Trodd, Dublin, ‘Eden is’

Doreen Duffy, Dublin, ‘One Small’

Melissa Emmett, Birmingham UK, ‘Are You’

Patrick Gleeson, Dublin, ‘Watermark’, ‘The Killing’

Teresa Sweeney, Galway, ‘Fifty Three’ & ‘Stars’

Trisha McKeon, ‘Arthur’  

Ciaran Ferriter, Mayo, ‘The Hounding’

Una Mannion, Sligo, ‘Dogwood’

Niamh MacCabe, Leitrim, ‘Steer’, ‘Memorise’, ‘Dark’

Micheál Ó’Síocháin, Cork ‘A Day In’

David O’Dwyer, Dublin ‘The Empty’

Aongus Murtagh, Berlin ‘Matchstick’ & ‘Kelly’s

Richard Newton, Hampshire UK, ‘Of A’  

Meadhbh Ní Eadhra, Galway ‘The Mobile’

Niall Bourke, London ‘The Hands’

Gerard McKeown, London ‘Sisters’

Edna Faye Kiel, Clare, ‘Circles’

Edel Burke, Mayo, ‘One’

Louise Mangos, Switerland, ‘River’

Barbara Lovric, Kerry, ‘Commitment’

Veronica Creavin-Newell, Galway, ‘Sticks’

Kathryn Burke, Dublin, ‘The Depth’, ‘A Legacy’

Paula Conway, East Sussex, ‘The Chalk’

P.J. Moore, Galway, ‘Seconds’, ‘Thick’

Maeve Mulrennan, Galway, ‘End of’

James Finlan, Galway, ‘The Gospel’

Balla Aella, Galway, ‘Oniiasan’

Kate Ennals, Cavan, ‘Hilda’s’

Valerie Ryan, Kildare, ‘Only’

Angela Victory, Galway, ‘Aussie’

POETRY

Ria Collins, Galway

Grace Wilentz, Dublin

Kathryn Burke, Dublin

Aidan Hynes, Dublin,

Connie Masterson, Galway

Ursula Shields-Huemer, Galway

Paul Denby, Galway

Audrey Molloy, Australia

Alyn Fenn, Cork

Emily V, North Dakota

Roisin Browne, Dublin

Colin Dardis, Belfast

Lauren Garland, London

James Finnegan, Donegal

Christine Valters-Paintner, Galway

Jo Burns, Germany

Alan Weadick, Dublin

Anita Ouellette, Massachusetts USA

Karin Molde, Germany

Alice Kinsella, Mayo

Jean Tuomey, Mayo

Bogusia Wardein, Norway

Sarah Padden, Galway

James Anthony, Athlone

Bobbie Sparrow, Galway

Vincent Steed, Galway

Sighle Meehan, Galway

James O’Toole, Henry Street

Kevin Murtagh, Kildare

Ruth Aylett, Scotland

Rob Childers, Alaska USA/Galway

Kathryn Guille, Limerick

Fiona Place, Galway

Shelley Tracey, Belfast

Aisling Bradley, Derry

Deepa Mardolkar, London

Patrick Holloway, Brazil

Julie Irigaray, France

Evan Costigan, Kildare

Maureen Butler, Maine USA

Orla Fay, Meath

Steve Fraser, Scotland

Morag Anderson, Scotland

Tara Hynes, Galway

Cathal Flood, Longford

Emily Murphy, Galway

Liam O’Neill, Galway

Molly Twomey, Waterford

Rosie Barrett, Devon UK

Eoin Barton, Galway

Caroline Am Bergris, London

Anne Walsh Donnelly, Mayo

Art Ó Súilleabháin, Galway

Ruth Elwood, Galway

Simon Murphy, Bristol

Flish McCarthy, Galway

Chris Jenkins, Belfast

Nollaig Rowan, Dublin

Leah Keane, Roscommon

Caroline Bracken, Wicklow

Stephanie Brennan, Galway

Jessica Pape, Galway

Jackie Shortland, Cork

We would like to thank our competition sponsors: 

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Dock No. 1, Ward’s Hotel, Clare Daly TD, Kenny’s Bookshop & Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

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 22^nd

The fiction writers reading starts 3.30pm.

The reading by poets: 5.45pm

THE SHORTLIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED @

The September Over The Edge: Open Reading

on Thursday, September 28^th  Galway City Library, 6.30-8pm

2017 New Writer of The Year judge Nicki Griffin

August Over The Edge: Open Reading with Bobbie Sparrow, Art Ó Súilleabháin, & Ailbhe Darcy

The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 31^st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Ailbhe DArcy, Art Ó Súilleabháin, & Bobbie Sparrow. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for the 2017 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition which received a large number of entries again this year.
 

Bobbie Sparrow is a poetry writing Psychotherapist living in Co. Galway.  She was long listed for the Over The Edge new writer's award 2015/16 and short listed for the Galway University Poetry Competition 2016. Her poems have been published in Orbis, Picaroon, and The Rose Magazine. Bobbie has taken part in many poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins and Jim Bennet of Poetry Kit. She is a member of the online poetry group, Poets Abroad.  Bobbie has found a good poem to be a good friend.

Art Ó Súilleabháin was born in Galway, spent a few years in Boston but now lives in Corr na Móna, in north Connemara. He has published a number of books for children as Gaeilge but is now working on poems and stories in English for adults. His work has been regularly broadcast on RTE Radio One’s Sunday Miscellany. He lives on the shores of Lough Corrib with his artist son Fiachra, one of his six children.

Ailbhe Darcy

Ailbhe Darcy grew up in Dublin, and has since lived in the United States, Germany and Wales, where she teaches creative writing at Cardiff University. Selections of her work are included in the Bloodaxe anthologies Identity Parade and Voice Recognition, and in the Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Vol 4. Her first full-length collection was ImaginaryMenagerie, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2011. A collaboration with S.J. Fowler,  Subcritical Tests, was published by Gorse in June 2017. Recent poems have appeared in POETRY, Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry Wales, and a second solo collection, Insistence, is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2018.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which has again received a very healthy number of entries this year. 

The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.

Over The Edge goes to EastSide Arts Festival in Belfast