The
September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday,
September 28th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Oisín Fagan, Paul Denby,
& Dara O Foghlu. The evening
will also see the announcement of the shortlist
for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition, judged by
writer, poet, and Skylight 47 editor Nicki
Griffin.
A native of Galway, Dara O Foghlu graduated from the Writing MA in NUI Galway in 2008.
He has published his fiction in Ropes as well as in three collections of short
stories with The Atlantis Collective, which were launched as part of the Cúirt
festival. He has been a freelance editor for seven years, and has recently
returned from Vietnam where he was editing state propaganda for the
Communists.
Paul Denby
has been in
Galway since 2005, having previously lived in England and Germany. He studied
Mathematics and Economics, and works as a Software Engineer. Paul participates
in poetry workshops at the Galway Arts Centre and was longlisted for the 2016
‘Over the Edge’ New Writer of the Year Competition.
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| Oisín Fagan |
Oisín Fagan is a
fiction writer and activist. He does work with the Irish Housing Network, and
spends much of his time outside his job as a language teacher campaigning
on social issues. He stories has previously been published in The Stinging
Fly, New Planet Cabaret and Young Irelanders
and his work has featured at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Earlier this
year he won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. Hostages,
his first collection of short stories, was published in 2016 by New Island.
The
MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone
087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.