Mona Jakob, Rory Duffy, & Orla McAlinden for final Over The Edge: Open Reading before the
summer break
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| Orla McAlinden |
The May ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library
on Thursday, May 30th 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Orla McAlinden, Rory Duffy, &.Mona Jakob. There
will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New
readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. This is the final Over
The Edge: Open Reading before the summer break. The evening will also see the
announcement of the details of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year
competition.
Mona Jakob has
been an on-and-off-participant in Susan Millar DuMars’ classes for creative
writing over the last couple of years and is currently enrolled in her Advanced
Fiction Writing Class. Her only publication so far has been in the academic
field of Old/Medieval Irish (for the curious: A study of the Green Man in the
story of ‘Buile Shuibhne’), but she hopes to finish her first novel in the not
too distant future – working in a bookshop (Dubray’s) certainly is a good
incentive. Enjoying discussions on what constitutes literary fiction, she draws
inspiration from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Becky Chambers, John
Connolly and Robin Hobb.
Rory Duffy
lives in Athlone. His fiction has been published in several journals including Crannóg,
The Stony Thursday Book, Southword, and Penduline Press. He was
highly commended in the Over the Edge New Writer of The Year competition in
2015 and won the 2016 Over The Edge Annual Fiction Slam. Also in 2016 Rory was
placed 3rd in the PJ O'Connor Awards and was also short listed for the Frances
MacManus Award. In 2017 he was nominated for a ZeBBie Award by the Irish
Writers Guild for his radio play Paulo in the Underworld. Rory was
also highly commended in the Seán Ó'Faoláin Award in 2017. Currently his
favourite bird is the common swift (Apus Apus) but this may change.
Orla McAlinden is
a multi-award-winning author, vet, farmer, teacher and mother, originally from
Armagh, living in Kildare. Her short-story collections and novels, The Accidental Wife, The Flight of the Wren (Red Stag/Mentor
Books, Sept 2018) and Full of Grace (Red
Stag /Mentor Books, May 2019) have featured in the Sunday Times (Ireland)
magazine, The Irish Times, Irish News, on RTE and BBC Radio and others. Her
awards include the Eludia Award for first fiction, The Cecil Day Lewis emerging
writer award, and the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards Short Story of the
Year. Her short fiction has never yet appeared in an Irish print journal, but
she lives in hope! www.orlamcalinden.com
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.