2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year LONGLIST

2013 OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

LONGLIST

Sheila Armstrong, Dublin

for her stories 'To Come Home' & 'Badhbh'

Bernie Ashe, Galway 

for 'Crow' & other poems

Eileen Bennett, Co, Galway

for her story 'John Byrne Rides Again'

Patricia Bennett, Fermanagh

for her story 'The Chapel of Ease'

Nora Brennan, Kilkenny

for 'Moon' & other poems 

Stephanie Brennan, Co. Galway

for 'Points West' & other poems

Marie Cadden, Co. Galway 

for 'Disturbing The Queen' & other poems

Margaret Cahill, Limerick

for her story 'Moving In'

Alvy Carragher, Galway

for her story 'What Sarah Knows' & 'Broken Symmetry' & other poems

Lesley Cassidy, Galway

for her stories 'Turquoise', ' & 'Sally' &; also for 'Diagnosis' & other poems

Miriam Clyne, Galway

for 'Where are the Voices?' & other poems

Brian Colgan, Galway 

for 'From Babi Yar to Bethlehem'

Teresa Coleman, Mayo

for her story 'Elizabeth'

Denis Collins, Wexford 

for 'Pete' & other poems

Stephanie Conn, Antrim 

from 'When you leave' & other poems

Chris Connolly, Dublin

for his story 'Fake Plastic Trees'

Rachel Coventry, Galway

for 'Like her Grandmother' & other poems

Bernie Crawford, Co. Galway

for 'Fear of Mothering' & other poems

Kate Dempsey, Kildare

for 'What Does Larry Do' & other poems

Maurice Devitt, Dublin 

for 'A Stranger in the House' & other poems

Cal Doyle 

for 'The Heist' & other poems

Kevin Doyle, Cork

for his story 'Whatever It Was About Men'

Dagmar Drabent, Galway 

for 'Time life' & other poems

Judy Drazin, Bristol, UK

for 'Odile's Song' & other poems

Paul Duffy, Wicklow

for his story 'The Vapour's Project'

Elizabeth Dulcie, Torquay, UK

for her story 'Crusing By Numbers'

Kate Ennals, Cavan

for 'What ever you say...say nothing' & other poems

Niall Foley, Edinburgh

for his story 'Phone call from the West of Ireland'

Erin Fornoff, Dublin

for 'On Planes' & other poems

Sean Glynn,  Co. Galway

for his story 'Hackett's Hole'

Sandra Harris, Dublin

for her stories 'The Miracle At Saint Mary's' & 'A Death'

Mary Healy, Kilkenny 

for her story 'What's Worth Keeping'

Meriel Heather, Dublin

for 'King' and other poems

Brian Hefferan, Mayo

for his story 'Adrift In Summer's Time'

Phyl Herbert, Dublin

for his story 'R-E-V-O-L-V-E'

Patrick Hewitt, Dublin

for 'Why?'

Aidan Hynes, Dublin

for his stories 'Confetti On The Moon' & 'Hair'

Anne Irwin, Galway

for 'The Stations of the Crossbar' & other poems

Katherine Janeczeck, Galway 

for 'Genesis' & other poems

Rupert Jenkins, Scotland

for his story 'Tender To The Shore'

Eileen Keane, Kildare

for her story 'Freezing Rasberries' 

Lorraine Kelly, Galway

for her story 'The Wait'

Susan Kelly, Mayo

for 'Mother Superior' & other poems

Gary King, Galway

for his story 'The Returned'

Brian Kirk, Dublin 

for his story 'The Creaseless Society'

Tom Lavelle, Galway 

for 'How I Talk To God' & other poems

Brian Leeson, Belfast

for his story 'Return To Benevenagh'

Philippa Maguire, Co. Galway

for 'Dinner' & other poems

Jennifer Matthews, Cork

for 'Planning Permission' & other poems

Mari Maxwell, Co. Galway

for her story 'Equal Commisson'

Anna McCarthy, New York

for her story 'An Inventory of Slights'

Deirdre McClay, Donegal

for her story 'Traps'

Pat McDonnell, Galway

for his story 'Three Sisters in the Sky'

Christopher Meehan, Co. Galway 

for 'The Ever Changing Definition of Youth in Revolt'

Sighle Meehan, Galway

for 'Gatsby Girl' & other poems

Mary McGill, Dublin 

for her story 'The Cat's Mother'

Jennifer McGowan, Oxfordshire, UK 

for 'Penelope' & other poems

Louis Mulcahy, Kerry 

for 'Good Deed' & other poems

Maeve Mulrennan, Galway

for her story 'Cradle'

Brendan Murphy, Co. Galway

for his story'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Sinner'

Catherine Myddleton-Evans, London, UK

for 'under the sea' & other poems

Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin, Galway

for 'Tribe' & other poems

Michael Naghten-Shanks, Dublin 

for 'Rape / Reaction / Result' & other poems

Katherine Noone, Galway

for 'Home' & other poems

Gerard O’Brien, Co. Galway

for his story 'Nissen Hut'

Kerrie O’Brien, Dublin

for 'Scar' & other poems'

Jessamine O’Connor, Sligo

for 'Adults' & other poems

Patrick G. O’Connor, Limerick

for his story 'Concrete and Tulips'

Anita Ouellette, Massachusetts, USA 

for 'Almost Afraid To Talk To God While Others Are Listening'

Clare O’Reilly, Kildare 

for her story 'Hey Presto!' and 'With Mercy' & other poems

Eleanor O’Reilly, Wicklow

for her story 'Classifieds, Fags And Coconut Creams'

Kevin O’Shea, Co. Galway

for his story 'Marked'

Micheál Ó’Síocháin, Cork

for his story 'The Last Days of The Pavilion'

Maeve O’Sullivan, Dublin 

for 'Agent of Confusion' & other poems

James O’Toole, Galway

for 'Bad Jobs' and other poems

Sarah O’Toole, Galway 

for 'After the world had ended' and other poems

Christine Painter, Galway 

for 'Remember' & other poems

Valerie Ryan, Kildare

for her story 'The Postman'

Breda Wall Ryan, Wicklow

for 'Inheritors' & other poems

Rejini Samuel, Galway

for her story 'The Alleyway'

Ashlie Schweitzer, Galway

for her story 'Prairie Lights'

Fiona Scoble, Galway

for her story 'What have you brought for us?'

Maresa Sheehan, Carlow

for 'second son' & other poems

Alan M. Shine, Galway

for his story 'The Grave of Charles W. Spencer'

Breda Spaight, Limerick

for 'Final Cut' & other poems

Ekaterina Tikhoniouk, Laois

for her story 'Katie'

Evelyn Walsh, Dublin

for her story 'The Rose of Tralee'

Bogusia Wardein, Cracow, Poland

for 'Ode to Dust' & other poems

Deborah Watkins, Co. Galway 

for 'The Proposal' & other poems

Alison Wells, Wicklow

for her stories 'The Memory-Jar' & 'The Spaceman has his tea'

Dimitra Xidous, Dublin

for 'The science of hands' & other poems

We would like to thank our competition sponsors: 

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

ISupply Flood Street, Ward’s Hotel,

Kenny’s Bookshop & Derek Nolan T.D

Competition judge Sarah Clancy

 THE SHORTLIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED @

The Over The Edge open-mic event

@ Kenny’s  Bookshop & Art Gallery, Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road, Galway

Friday, September 20^th, 7pm

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED

@ the October Over The Edge: Open Reading

in Galway City Library,

Thurs October 31^st, 6.30-8pm

Kernan Andrews, Ron Houchin & Art Stringer for August Over The Edge: Open Reading PLUS LONGLIST ANNOUNCED FOR 2013 NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 29^th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Art Stringer, Ron Houchin & Kernan Andrews. 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.

Kernan Andrews is from Galway and is the arts editor and political correspondent of the Galway Advertiser. He writes short stories in his spare time and has been published in The Galway Review. He has read his work at Cúirt 2013; as part of the launch for NUI Galway's theatre events in the Galway Fringe Festival 2013; and at numerous Over The Edge open mics.

 

Kernan Andrews

Art Stringer is the author of three collections of poems, Channel Markers (Wesleyan University Press), Human Costume (Salmon Poetry) and, most recently, Late Breaking, which was published in February by Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in such journals as The Nation, Antaeus, The Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, and in Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia.  He also edited and introduced an edition of Louise McNeill’s Paradox Hill (West Virginia University Press). For twenty-four years, he has taught writing and literature at Marshall University.

 

Art Stringer 

Ron Houchin was born in San Diego, California, and raised from the age of three in Huntington, West Virginia.  He comes from a family of factory workers, coal miners, and farmers who have always lived in Appalachia.  For thirty years he taught in an Ohio public school in the southernmost tip of Ohio. His most recent books are The Quiet Jars, a new and selected poetry collection, published last spring by Salmon Publishing and a short story collection, Tales Out Of School, published in December from Wind Publications of Kentucky. Louisiana State University Press will publish a new volume of his poems, The Man Who Saws Us In Half, this autumn in its Southern Messenger Series. Ron lives in a haunted house, built by the grandson of an ex-slave, on the banks of the Ohio River.

 

Ron Houchin 

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 & The Arts Council.