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| Claire Hennessy |
The
February ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, February 28th,
6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Claire
Hennessy, Aisling Keogh, & Pauline McNamee. There will as usual be an open-mic
after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always especially
welcome at the open-mic.
Pauline McNamee is a writer, teacher and
writing workshop facilitator. She lives near the village of Rhode, County
Offaly. She recently completed an MA in Writing from NUIG. Her
poetry is published in the Bay Area Writing Project’s
Digital Paper. She will have an essay and poem published in the spring 2019 series
of the UK publication English in Education. Pauline was a finalist
in the 2018 Cúirt Spoken Word Platform, highly commended in the fiction category of the
2018 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year, shortlisted for the Fish short story
prize and longlisted for the Fish poetry prize. She is completing her first
novel and working on her first collection of poetry.
Aisling
Keogh is a psychotherapist and a stay at home mother to three
young children. Her short stories have been published with The Irish Independent, Crannog
Magazine, Wordlegs, Ropes, Bangor Literary Journal and A
New Ulster. Her first published short story, "How to Save a
Life," was shortlisted for the Hennessy Irish Literary Awards in 2011. She
finished writing her first novel in 2018, was recently shortlisted for the
Doolin Writers’ Weekend short story prize, and is currently submitting her
novel to agents and publishers. In her free time Aisling likes to sing and play
the guitar badly.
Claire Hennessy
lives in Dublin and is the author of several YA
(young adult) novels, most recently Nothing
Tastes As Good & Like Other Girls
(Hot Key Books). She co-edits BANSHEE
literary journal, which appears twice a year.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.