The
October ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, October 26th, 6.30-8.00pm. This
is Over The Edge’s annual non-fiction special, at which all of the Featured
Readers are writers of non-fiction; however poets and fiction writers are still
welcome at the open-mic. The Featured Readers are Jonathan Sugarman, Fiona Neary, &
Angela
Nagle. There
will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the winners in this year’s Over The Edge New Writer
of The Year competition, which received a large number of entries again
this year. This year’s competition judge is Nicki Griffin. The shortlist can be
read here.
Angela Nagle
is a writer for The Irish Times, Jacobin, Current Affairs magazine, and The Baffler. Her first book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars
From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right is published by Zero
Books. Jacobin Magazine has said of
her “Unlike much of the Left who've grown far too accustomed to marginalization
and defeat, Nagle still believes in politics as the only way of changing an
increasingly brutal world.” Reviewing Kill
All Normies in The
Stinging Fly Rob Doyle said “Angela Nagle strikes
me as an uncommonly sane voice in a culture war defined by astounding cruelty,
extremism and intolerance. Kill All
Normies is as absorbing as it is important. I hope everyone reads it.”
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| Fiona Neary |
Fiona Neary
started doing creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre in 2016, is no
relation to Bishop Neary and absolutely, unequivocally, utterly no relation to
Patrick Neary. She is a former Executive Director of the Rape Crisis Network
Ireland and is currently working on a memoir.
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| Jonathan Sugarman |
Jonathan Sugarman
is a former executive at Unicredit Bank Ireland in Dublin’s IFSC who resigned
in September 2007 after giving a detailed account of enormous liquidity
breaches at his bank a year before the financial crash. Mr Sugarman,
whose warning were ignored by the Central Bank, launched his book The Whistleblower,
published with the help of Luke Flanagan MEP, last December.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.