November Over The Edge: Open Reading - David Green, Riona Mac Eoin, Kevin Doyle PLUS NUIG MA in Writing poets

The November ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, November 21^st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Kevin Doyle, Riona Mac Eoin, & David Green. There will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished; new readers are always especially welcome. This month’s open-mic will include a showcase for poets currently studying on the MA in Writing at NUI Galway.

David Green lives Galway, Ireland, and is the host and of OFF THE PAGE, a monthly open-mic giving space to writers and poets in Athenry. Originally from Manchester, UK, and of Irish descent, David is a fiction writer currently working on his debut novel. He has had several short stories in genres spanning science-fiction, horror and historical fiction published in various publications online and in print.

Riona Mac Eoin is the co-owner and works at Briarhill Vet Clinic in Galway City. Her hobbies include travelling, reading ,writing and sport, especially cycling. She recently achieved third place in her debut cycling race. Riona is very interested in psychology, specifically the influence our childhood years have on the development of our adult selves. Riona also volunteers with Foróige helping young people navigate their adolescent years. Ríona took a break from work last year and spent 6 months in New York which is where she discovered her love of writing.  She writes fiction and has lately been attending creative writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Technical Insititute. She has previously read her work at the Over The Edge open-mic. 

Kevin Doyle

Kevin Doyle is a writer and activist. He was born and grew up in Cork. He holds a Masters in Chemistry and worked for many years as an industrial chemist in Ireland and the United States. His short stories been published in journals such as Stinging Fly, the Cork Review, Southwords and the Cúirt Journal. Shortlisted for several prizes, including the Ian St. James Award, the Hennessy Literary Awards and the Seán Ó Faoláin Prize, he won the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award in 2016. He has written extensively about Irish and radical politics and, with Spark Deeley, co-wrote the award-winning children’s picture book, The Worms that Saved the World.He is the author of two political crime thrillers published by Blackstaff Press. To Keep A Bird Singing (2018) and A River of Bodies (2019) are the first and second books in the Solidarity Books trilogy. The series is set in Cork and explores the murky world of Special Branch collusion with a network of abusers inside the Catholic Church. He is currently working on the third and final book in the series. See also www.kevindoyle.ie

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.

November Over The Edge: Open Reading with Teresa Sweeney, Deirdre McClay & Joseph Horgan PLUS MA in Writing Students from NUI Galway

The November ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, November 20^th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Joseph Horgan, Deirdre McClay & Teresa Sweeney. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. This month’s open-mic will continue our showcase of the poetry students from this year’s MA in Writing at NUI Galway. New readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic.  

Teresa Sweeney is from county Galway. She was short listed in this year’s Over the Edge New Writer of the Year. She has been published in Roadside Fiction, Number Eleven Magazine, Wordlegs, Boyne Berries and runner up in WOW! Awards 2011. Teresa took classes with Susan Millar DuMars including the Advanced Fiction class. She is studying an MA in Writing in NUIG this year. Teresa’s stories can be read here: http://www.teresasweeney.com   

Deirdre McClay lives in Donegal and is a member of Garden Room Writers. She has published fiction in The Irish Times, Sunday Tribune, Crannóg, Boyne Berries, Wordlegs, and The Linnet’s Wings, among others. In 2005, she was nominated for a Hennessy Award. More recently, her short stories have won in The Lonely Voice Competition, and the Allingham Festival; she has also been longlisted, shortlisted, and highly commended in national competitions. 

Joseph Horgan

Joseph Horgan was born in Birmingham, England, of Irish parents. He is a past winner of The Patrick Kavanagh Award and has been awarded an Arts Council bursary for his poetry. His first collection of poetry, Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea, was published by Doghouse in 2008. His second book, The Song at Your Backdoor, a meditation on identity and place, was published by Collins Press in 2010, and was selected as an RTE Book on One.  His most recent book, The Year I Loved England, a collaborative poetry collection with English poet Antony Owen, was published in 2014 by Pighog Press. His work has been anthologised in: Off the Wall (Marino ed Niall MacMonagle), Landing Places (Dedalus ed Eva Bourke and Borbala Farago), and Sunday Miscellany 2008-2011 (New Island ed Clíodhna Ní Anluain). He has written a weekly column for the Irish Post since 1999.
 

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. This month’s open-mic will continue our showcase of the poetry students from this year’s MA in Writing at NUI Galway. 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, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.

The NUIG Writing MA of 2012/13 is hosting an open mic night/reading at the Crane Bar to raise funds for ADVENTURE HAT

The NUIG Writing MA of 2012/13 is hosting an open mic night/reading upstairs at the Crane Bar on the 23 of September from 7:30-9:30pm.

Come for the craic - listen, read, or simply enjoy a pint of the Crane's finest.

The 2012/13 MA, "The Blackfort Writers" have also invited the 2011/12 MA, "The Abandoned Darlings" in addition to a handful of Galway's best-known writers including Kevin Higgins, Eva Bourke, Mike McCormack and Adrian Frazier to name a few.

A €3 donation will be collected at the door. All proceeds go to the creation of the Black Fort Writers' anthology, "Adventure Hat."

For more info, check out: www.facebook.com/blackfortwriters or www.blackfortwriters.wordpress.com