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| Dara Ó Foghlú, Vinny Steed, & Paul Denby. |
Since its inception in 2006 the New Writing
Showcase has grown to become one of the most important platforms for
emerging writers in Ireland. This year’s Cúirt Over The Edge New Writing
Showcase features three participants from the Over the Edge literary series in
Galway – Paul Denby, Dara Ó Foghlú, & Vinny Steed – and Eimear O’Callaghan
and Eoin Hegarty, the winners of the Cúirt New Writing
Poetry Prize 2018. The MC for the event will be regular Over The Edge host
Susan Millar DuMars. It takes place on Wednesday,
April 25th, 11 am, at The
Town Hall Theatre. Entry is free of charge. All welcome.
Fiction writer
Dara Ó Foghlú is a native of Galway. He 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. Dara was a Featured Reader at the September 2017 Over
The Edge: Open Reading.
Poet Vinny
Steed has had work published abroad and in Ireland. His poems have featured in the Galway Review, Headstuff, Skylight 47, Crannóg, Into the Void, Tales from the
Forest magazine and in Ofi Press
magazine. He has been long listed for
the Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition and short listed for the
2016 Doolin poetry competition. One of
his poems was nominated by Into the Void
for the Pushcart Prize. He attends
poetry workshops in the Galway Arts Centre. Vinny was a Featured Reader at the
January 2017 Over The Edge: Open Reading.
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 shortlisted
for the 2017 ‘Over the Edge’ New Writer of the Year Competition. Paul was a
Featured Reader at the September 2017 Over The Edge: Open Reading.
Over The Edge
acknowledges the ongoing financial support of The Arts Council, Galway City
Council, and Poetry Ireland, and our ongoing partnership with the Cúirt
Festival of International Literature.
