SHORTLIST for 2016 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year

2016 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year SHORTLIST

FICTION

Una Mannion, Sligo  ‘Pet…’

Niamh MacCabe, Leitrim ‘Stars..’

Robert Higgins, Dublin ‘Honda…’

Rozz Lewis, Carlow ‘Wire’

Micheál Ó’Síocháin, Cork ‘Triangle…’

Anne Donnelly, Mayo ‘Lead…’

David O’Dwyer, Dublin ‘Attic…’

Aongus Murtagh, Berlin  ‘He…’

Martin Halliday, Newcastle UK ‘Moor…’

Meadhbh Ní Eadhra, Galway ‘Friday…’

Rory Walsh, Mayo ‘Chancer…’

Chris Connolly, Dublin‘Light…’& ‘New’

Neasa McHugh, County  Galway ‘Atrophy…’

Diana Powell, Wales ‘Cabinet…’

Lauren Foley, Dublin ‘Don’t…’

POETRY

Lydia Harris, Orkney, Scotland

Ria Collins, Galway

Patrick Maddock, Wexford

Audrey Molloy, Australia

Alyn Fenn, Cork

James Finnegan, Donegal

Denise Nagle, Mayo

Lauren Jan Shore, Australia

Alice Kinsella, Mayo

Jean Tuomey, Mayo

Bogusia Wardein, Norway

Stephen Byrne, Galway

Niall Bourke, London

Kathryn Guille, Limerick

Deirdre Daly, Dublin

Shelley Tracey, Belfast

Eileen Keane, Galway

Caroline Bracken, Wicklow

The longlist is available here.  

We would like to thank our competition sponsors:

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Dock No. 1, 

ISupply Flood Street, Ward’s Hotel,

Clare Daly TD,

Kenny’s Bookshop 

& Senator Trevor Ó’Clochartaigh

Thanks also to our judge Niamh Boyce 

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED 

@ The October Over The Edge: Open Reading

on Thursday, October 27^th

Galway City Library, 6.30-8pm

September Over The Edge: Open Reading Caitriona O’Reilly, Colin Dardis, James Anthony & Skylight 47 launch

Caitríona Ó'Reilly

The September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 29th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Caitriona O’Reilly, Colin Dardis, & James Anthony. The centre piece of the evening will be the launch of issue seven of Skylight 47, the exciting bi-annual poetry paper from the Skylight Poets, which will be on sale on the evening. The publication will be launched by Caitriona O’Reilly. Skylight 47 is based in Galway and publishes poems by poets from all around the globe; all poets are welcome to submit poems for consideration for future issues. For details on how to take out a subscription to Skylight 47 see https://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/buy-skylight-47/. 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 fiction writer and poet Niamh Boyce. 

James Anthony is a native of Athlone. He has worked in catering for most of his life and has always enjoyed writing in his spare time. In January 2015, he took the train to Galway to attend Kevin Higgins's creative writing class at G.T.I. and has been a regular participant in Kevin’s poetry workshops ever since. This year he has published work in Skylight47, the Athlone Advertiser and a poetry anthology, Open Your Eyes edited by Kevin Watts.

Colin Dardis is a poet, editor, freelance arts facilitator, creative writing tutor and mental health advocate, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA. He is one of Eyewear Publishing’s Best New British and Irish Poets 2016, and is currently an ACES (Artists Career Enhancement Scheme) 2015-16 recipient from Arts Council Northern Ireland. Colin is also online editor for Lagan Press.

Catríona O'Reilly was born Dublin in 1973, grew up in Wicklow and Dublin, and now lives in Lincoln. She studied archaeology and English at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on American literature; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge. Her first collection The Nowhere Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2001, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2002 (given to the best new book by any Irish writer). Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2007. Her third collection, Geis (Bloodaxe Books, UK; Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2015), won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2016 and was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is a freelance writer and critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She has collaborated with artist Isabel Nolan, edited several issues of Poetry Ireland Review, and was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journal Metre.

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.