The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ after the summer
break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 28th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers
are Australian poet Jane Williams, Mary
McGill & Majella Kelly. There
will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The
evening will also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over
The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which received a very healthy number
of entries again this year, an increase on last year.
Jane Williams
Majella Kelly is a native
of Tuam, Co. Galway. A graduate of UCC she also holds an MA in Modern Drama
Studies from UCD. She teaches English, French and Italian in St. Colman's
College, Claremorris, Co. Mayo. She was short listed for the Cuirt New Writing Prize
and The Fish Poetry Prize 2014. She is also a photographer, half of the
creative duo known as Fotissima. She just started writing in September
2013 when she signed up for a creative writing class with Susan Millar DuMars
and is now a regular attendee at Kevin Higgins Tuesday Nights poetry workshop.
Her first poem will be published in the Autumn issue of Skylight 47.
Mary McGill lives in
Galway. Her fiction has appeared in The
South Circular, The Bohemyth, Crannóg and Wordlegs. In 2013, she was shortlisted for the Penguin / RTÉ Guide
short story competition and the Irish Times ‘Legends of the Fall’ competition.
Mary was also long listed for the 2013 Over the Edge award and short listed for
the 2014 RTÉ Radio One Francis MacManus Award. She tweets at @missmarymcgill
and blogs at missmarymcgill.com.
Jane Williams was born in England
in 1964 to an Irish father and Australian mother. She has lived all her adult
life in Australia where her poetry has been widely published since the early
1990’s. Awards for her poetry include the Anne Elder Award for her first book outside
temple boundaries, the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize and the D.J.O'Hearn
Memorial Fellowship. She is co-editor of the new online literary magazine, Communion. Jane’s most recent collection
of poems, Days Like These: New and
selected poems 1998-2013, was published last year by Interactive Press.
As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured
Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The evening will
also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over The Edge New
Writer of The Year competition, which received a very healthy number of
entries again this year.
The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details
phone 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.
