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Showing posts with label 2019 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Over The Edge New Writer of the Year - WINNERS!

The winner in the Fiction category, and 2019 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year, is Molly Harris from St. Louis, Missouri for her story 'The Last Long River Sigh'. Molly  studied creative writing at the 2019 NUI Galway Irish Studies International Summer School.
Molly Harris - 2019 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year


Molly receives €700 in prize money, a hamper of books from Kenny's Bookshop, Galway, and will be a Featured Reader at an Over The Edge: Open Reading in the first half of 2020. Turas Press will read, without prior commitment to publish, a collection of short stories submitted to them by Molly. 


The runner-up in the Fiction category is Helena Farrell from Cork for her story 'The Journey of A Breath'. 


In third place is Eamon McGuinness from Dublin for his story 'Our Names Into The Sea'. 

The winner in the Poetry category is Stephen DeBúrca from Galway for his poem 'Scoping'. Stephen is currently studying creative writing in Florida. 
Stephen De Búrca - 2019 poetry winner
Stephen receives prize money of €300 and Salmon Poetry will now read, without prior commitment to publish, a collection of poems submitted to them by Stephen. Stephen will also read his work at an Over The Edge event during 2020. Stephen's winning poem will appear in the next issue of Skylight 47

The runner-up in the poetry section is Kathryn Burke from Dublin, for her poem 'Sherbrooke Street Pantoum'.

In third place is Evan Costigan from Galway for his poem ‘The Trouble with Snow’.


The shortlist from which the winners were chosen is available here.


A huge thank you is due to our competition judge this year Liz McSkeane.

Over The Edge would also like to warmly thank Charlie Byrne's Bookshop, Kenny's Bookshop & Gallery, Ward's Hotel, and Clare Daly MEP. for again sponsoring our competition this year.

Sunday, October 27, 2019

October Over The Edge: Open Reading presents Brexit Special PLUS the announcement of the winners of the 2019 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year


The October ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on the politically significant, and potentially calamitous, date of Thursday, October 31st, 6.30-8.00pm. To mark the occasion Over The Edge presents a non-fiction and poetry Brexit special; however, crucially, poems and stories on any subject under the sun are still totally welcome at the open-mic. And Over The Edge is always specially welcoming to new readers who have never done our open-mic before. The Featured Readers are Martin Hayes, Jerry Fitzpatrick, & Eoin Ó Murchú. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished.  The evening will also see the announcement of the winners in this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which received a large number of entries again this year. This year’s competition judge is Liz McSkeane. The shortlist can be read here.


Martin Hayes was born in London and has lived along the Edgware Road area, near Grenfell Tower, all his life. He has worked in the courier industry for over 30 years and is the author of four books of poetry: Letting Loose The Hounds, (Redbeck Press, 2001), When We Were Almost Like Men, (Smokestack, 2015). The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, (Culture Matters, 2018) and Roar! (Smokestack, 2018).  He is currently a little more depressed than usual as his place of work has just moved from a 15 minute stroll up the road from his home to Whitechapel - an hour away – each fucking way! – on the stinking packed £2.90 each way tube!

Jerry Fitzpatrick explaining the reality of the situation
Jerry Fitzpatrick was born in the UK to Irish parents and now lives in County Cavan where he is married to poet, fiction writer, and literary events organiser Kate Ennals. In the 1970s Jerry was National Secretary of the Anti-Nazi League and an initiator of the hugely successful, and iconic, Rock Against Racism, for which he was Carnivals Organiser. He was organiser of the Anti-Nazi League’s Lewisham demo that stopped the nazi National Front marching through the area in August 1977. Beating Time magazine said “Jerry could organise everything from a riot to refreshments for 100,000”. Later, he took Rock Against Racism bands to Belfast during the hunger strikes to Rock the H Blocks. A former trade union official and one time Parliamentary Officer for now Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP, Jerry is close to the thinking of the UK Labour leadership.

Eoin Ó Murchú
Eoin Ó Murchú was the political editor of Raidió na Gaeltachta for nearly 20 years and, more recently, was a regular – and always entertaining – panellist on Tonight With Vincent Browne. Currently a columnist with Tuairisc, Ó Murchú challenges the group think of the Irish Establishment and argues for a nationally independent Left politics. For many years an activist in first the Republican Movement and then the Communist Party, Eoin has been a strong advocate of socialism and of opposition to the neoliberal European Union.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always especially 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.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

2019 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year SHORTLIST



FICTION

Eamonn McGuinness,  ‘Names’
PJ Moore,  ‘Noddy’
Kathryn Burke, ‘Interim’
Kate Ennals, ‘Cobbler’
Colin Kerr, ‘When’
Kirsty Warren, ‘Lionheart’
Aongus Murtagh, ‘Puppet’
Eileen Keane, ‘Summer’
Helena Farrell, ‘Journey’ & ‘Where’
Rory Duffy, ‘Soul’
Molly Harris,  ‘Last’


POETRY

Kathryn Burke, ‘Sherbrooke’
Gavan Duffy, ‘Subjective’
Molly Twomey, ‘Atalanta’
Evan Costigan, ‘Trouble’
Rob Childers, ‘Fish’
Kevin Chesser, ‘Off-Roading’
Denise Nagle, ‘Racer’
Helena Kilty ‘Battlecry’
Stephen de Búrca, ‘Scoping’
Andrea Ward, ‘Abbey’
Grace Wilentz, ‘Coral’
Jon McLeod, ‘Versus’
Sacha Hutchinson, ‘Last’
Caroline Bracken, ‘Coral’
Lorraine Wood, ‘Snuff’



We would like to thank our competition sponsors: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Ward’s Hotel, Clare Daly MEP, & Kenny’s Bookshop.


This year's competition judge is Liz McSkeane. 

The longlist can be viewed here

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED @  the  Over The Edge: Open Reading on Thursday, October 31st,  6.30pm   @ Galway City Library

September Over The Edge: Open Reading with Leah Keane, Barbara Dunne, Ingrid Casey plus open-mic


The September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 26th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Ingrid Casey, Barbara Dunne, & Leah Keane. The evening will also see the announcement of the shortlist for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition, judged by poet, fiction writer, and publisher Liz McSkeane. And there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished; new readers are always especially welcome.

Leah Keane is a native of Castlerea, County Roscommon. She recently graduated from NUI Galway with a BA in English, German and Creative Writing. Unsurprisingly, she is now a barista. Leah has studied poetry under Alvy Carragher, and was longlisted for the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition in 2017. Her work has been published in Poetry Ireland Review and Skylight 47.

Barbara Dunne is a parent, writer, visual artist, and blogger living in Moycullen Co. Galway. She is originally from Killeshin, on the Carlow/Laois border. She teaches art to children and is also a Special Needs Asssistant. She writes poetry, short stories, and reviews and regularly updates her blog. Her reviews appear in Circa, Circa Arts Magazine, and on on-line magazines and websites. She is a member of the Oughterard Writers Group and the creative writing course at Galway Technical Insitute, run by Susan Millar DuMars. Her poetry has recently appeared in print for the first time in the Writers  group poetry collection Shadows(2018). One of her poems was selected to be performed  at the 2018 Cuirt Spoken Word.  Her blog address is barbaradunneblog.wordpress.com/ Barbara is currently working on exploring fiction and children’s fiction in particular.  She is also working towards her first collection of poetry.
Ingrid Casey
Ingrid Casey is a poet, parent, artist and activist. She has been writing poetry since 2015, and some prose, with publications in literary journals from Brooklyn to Kentucky, Dublin to Cardiff. She is a John Hewitt bursary recipient, amongst other accolades. Her debut collection, Mandible (the Onslaught Press, 2018) has been described by poet Jessica Traynor as a ‘vital addition to Irish poetry.’ This year she also produced a groundbreaking short documentary on families living in homeless accommodation: www.throughthecracks.ie Ingrid is currently editing a bilingual anthology of poetry by Irish poets translated into Greek for Athens based Vakxikon Press.

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.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

2019 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year LONGLIST

2019 OVER THE EDGE

NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

LONGLIST



FICTION

Phelim Kavanagh, ‘Fieldnotes’

Mary Quine, ‘Tommy’

Eamonn McGuinners, ‘Stars’ & ‘Names’

Niamh MacCabe, ‘Instructions’

PJ Moore, ‘You’ & ‘Noddy’

Kathryn Burke, ‘High’ & ‘Interim’

Kate Ennals, ‘Cobbler’

Sean Glynn, ‘Shoot’

Aelmuire Mullaney, ‘Conversations’

Creighton O’Sullivan, ‘Sonny’

Robert Kibble, ‘Drowning’

Daniel Wade, ‘Green’

David O’Dwyer, ‘Discovery’

Jessamine O’Connor, ‘Finding’

Maria Dolores, ‘Listening’

Colin Kerr, ‘When’

Alec Solomita, ‘Anne’

Louise Bunyan, ‘Box’

Kirsty Warren, ‘Lionheart’

Aongus Murtagh, ‘Puppet’

Mark Ward, ‘Bone’ & ‘Lisdoonvarna’

Dominique Cleary, ‘Meeting’

Aoibhinn O’Sullivan, ‘Roots’

Alice Redmond, ‘Chicken’

Eileen Keane, ‘Summer’

Helena Farrell, ‘Stone’, ‘Journey’ & ‘Where’

Rory Duffy, ‘Soul’

Ethan Goodfellow, ‘Fly’

Deirdre McClay, ‘Hannah’s

Carla Shackleford, ‘Schenley’

Claire Loader, ‘Clontuskert’

Molly Harris, ‘Discreet’ & ‘Last’

Rozz Lewis, ‘Gist’ & ‘Balacoa’

Caroline Farrell, ‘December’

David Green, ‘Loss’



POETRY

Nidhi Zak, ‘Fugue’

Donna Shaughnessy, ‘Kingdom’

Margot Harrison ‘Shelly’

Claire Loader, ‘Said’

Kathryn Burke, ‘Sherbrooke’

Audrey Molloy, ‘Knew’’

Gavan Duffy, ‘Subjective’

Síle Ní Chatháin, ‘Crepusculum’

Breda Joyce, ‘Guardian’

Una O’Farrell, ‘Toxic’

Barbara Dunne, ‘Transubstantial’

Bobbie Sparrow, ‘Persistence’

Vincent Steed, ‘Somewhere’

Sighle Meehan, ‘Visiting’

James O’Toole, ‘Horse’

Morag Anderson, ‘Brown Baby’

Molly Twomey, ‘Atalanta’

Anne Walsh Donnelly, ‘Goddess’ & ‘Day’

Jessica Pape, ‘Marbles’

Danny McBrearty, ‘Mothballs’

Attracta Fahy, ‘Love Poem’

Deirdre McClay, ‘Visiting’

Jill Kenny, ‘Woman’

Barbara DeCoursey Roy, ‘Last’

Sinead Mongan, ‘Tuning’

Iris M Mora, ‘Grounded’ & ‘Breaking’

Evan Costigan, ‘Trouble’

Rob Childers, ‘Fish’

Kevin Chesser, ‘Off-Roading’

Denise Nagle, ‘Racer

Helena Kilty ‘Battlecry

Caroline Johnstone ‘Dash’

Stephen de Búrca, ‘Scoping’

Tim Dwyer, ‘Phoenix’

Nollaig Rowan, ‘Admit’

Ann Herrington, ‘Day’

Nicola Geddes, ‘Arcadia’

Mary O’Melveny, ‘Freedom’

Maeve McKenna, ‘Sound’

Sandy Yannone, ‘Apology’

Kirsty Warren, ‘Interstate’

Peter Clarke, ‘Blessed’

Bern Butler, ‘Arriver’

Andrea Ward, ‘Abbey’

Tim Emlyn Jones, ‘Discourse’

Grace Wilentz, ‘Coral’

Brian Gourley, ‘Marble’

Eimear Laffan, ‘Inflection’

Akshaya Pawaskar, ‘Centenarian’

Maureen Butler, ‘More’

Frank Farrelly, ‘Breakfast’

Jennifer Davis, ‘Friday’

Niamh MacCabe, ‘Strange’

Jon McLeod, ‘Versus’

Tracy Gaughan, ‘Auguries’

Jorge Leiva, ‘We’

Eoin Chambers, ‘Crush’

Patrick Holloway, ‘Darkness’

Kathryn Slattery, ‘Professor’

Caroline Bracken, ‘Used’

Linda Ford, ‘Eyelashes’

David Estringel, ‘Sky’

Maria Dolores, ‘Iberian’

Paul McCarrick, ‘Closed’

Jessamine O’Connor, ‘Never’

Lorraine Wood, ‘Snuff’

Sacha Hutchinson, ‘Last’

Mark Scullion, ‘Sister

Susan Coyle, ‘Literary’

Lydia Harris, ‘Holy’

David Morris, ‘Ordinance’

Paula Conway, ‘After’

Patricia Walsh, ‘Ponchos’

Katelyn O’Neill, ‘existential’

Patrick Osada, ‘Tree’

James Anthony, ‘Jacket’

James O’Leary, ‘Ducks’

Sven Kretzschmar, ‘Thoughts’

Ruth Aylett, ‘Turning’

Jac Shortland, ‘There’ll’

Diarmuid Fitzgerald, ‘Silent’

Sarah Murphy, ‘Can’

Wilma Kenny ‘White’

Susan Kelly, ‘Coat’

Jill Kenny, ‘Woman’

Roisin Bugler, ‘Nativity’

Denise Garvey, ‘City’

Anne Irwin, ‘An Old’

Art Ó Súilleabháin, ‘someone’

Helen Fallon, ‘Flight’

John D. Kelly, ‘Scallcrows’

Kevin Murtagh, ‘Love’

A.M. Cousins, ‘Antenatal’

Eileen Cloonan, ‘Readers’

THE LONGLISTED WRITERS ARE INVITED  TO READ FROM THEIR LONGLISTED WORK @ the Over The Edge Culture Night event @ Kenny’s Bookshop & Gallery, Liosbán Retail Park on Friday, September 20th. The fiction writers reading starts 3.30pm.
The reading by poets: 5.45pm.
 

We’d like to thank our competition sponsors:   Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Ward’s Hotel,
Clare Daly MEP, & Kenny’s Bookshop

THE SHORTLIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED @  the  Over The Edge: Open Reading on Thurs, September 26,  6.30pm   @ Galway City Library
2019 competition judge Liz McSkeane