The
December ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, December 13th,
6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Declan
Varley, Evan Costigan, &
Daniel McBrearty. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have
finished which this month will feature, among others, poets studying on the MA in Writing at NUI Galway. New readers are especially welcome. The Over The Edge Christmas
celebration will take place afterwards.
Daniel
McBrearty, or Danny to his friends, is a writer of both
poetry and prose. The Donegal native's poetry has been published in A New Ulster, and his fiction was chosen
as the winner in the Ulster Male category in Hot Press' Write Here Write Now Competition
last May. A student of creative writing at NUI Galway, Danny’s writing deals
with being young in an irrational world. He has no idea what his writing style
is. That’s for other people to decide.
Evan Costigan’s poems have been
published in Poetry Ireland Review,
The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, The Moth, The Stony Thursday
Book, Abridged, Cyphers and elsewhere. Selected for
the 216 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, he is a past winner of the
Boyle Arts Festival Poetry Competition and the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry
Award. In 2017 he won the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition and the
Oliver Goldsmith Literary Festival Poetry Competition. His work has been
shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award and selected for the Best New British
and Irish Poets Anthology 2018 from Eyewear Publishing. The recipient of
several bursaries and residencies, Evan has been a featured reader at festivals
and events, including: Electric Picnic; International Literature Festival
Dublin; the Art Bar Series, Toronto. Born in Dublin and raised in county
Kildare, he has lived abroad most of his adult life. He now divides his time
between the west coast of Ireland and Dublin where he works as a creative
writing facilitator. His website is www.evancostigan.com.
Declan Varley is a striking new
voice in the great tradition of Irish literary fiction. Born in 1965, he grew
up in the small town of Ballinrobe in County Mayo, Ireland. In his teens,
Declan began his career in writing when he established a weekly magazine with a
group of friends. That publication gave Declan the motivation he needed to use
words as his trade, writing the college subculture novel Kittyland in 1992, followed by Sure
It Could Happen (1993) The Elephant’s
Graveyard, (1994) and Nightmusic
(2001). A successful career in journalism followed, writing award winning
stories for regional, national, and international newspapers. He is currently
Group Editor of Galway Advertiser Newspapers. Declan lives in Galway with his
wife, Galway Bay fm Head of News Bernadette Prendergast and their daughter,
Giselle. His latest novel, The Confession of Peadar Gibbons, was published earlier this year.
As
usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always most welcome. 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.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.