Reading by Galway’s Skylight Poets @ Clifden Arts Week

Friday 20/09/2013 @ 2:00 pm

Clifden Library, Market Street, Clifden, Co Galway Ireland

The Galway’s Skylight Poets, who will mostly read poems published in the second issue of the critically acclaimed Skylight 47 poetry newspaper, as part of the 10th anniversary celebration for the Over the Edge readings in Galway City Library. Facilitated by poet and essayist Kevin Higgins. 

For more see Clifden Arts Week. 

2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year to be judged by Sarah Clancy OPEN TO WRITERS WORLDWIDE

IMPORTANT UPDATE

EVERYONE WHO ENTERED THIS YEAR'S OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION IS SPECIALLY INVITED TO THE AUGUST OVER THE EDGE: OPEN READIING 
AT WHICH THE LONG-LIST WILL BE ANNOUNCED

THIS TAKES PLACE ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 29th @ GALWAY CITY LIBRARY (6.30-8PM)
The longlist will be posted here, on the Over The Edge website, later that evening.

 

competition judge Sarah Clancy

major sponsor Charlie Byrne's Bookshop

2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition

Major Sponsor: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

other sponsors to date:

ISupply, Flood Street
Ward's Hotel, Lower Salthill

Kenny’s Bookshop

& Derek Nolan T.D

In 2013 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual creative writing competition. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown to become one of the most important competition’s for emerging writers in Ireland and internationally. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers worldwide. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2013. The 2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at Ireland’s leading literary reading series, the Over The Edge: Open Readings in Galway City Library, on a date to be scheduled in Winter 2013/14. Salmon Poetry will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category. Doire Press will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript of short stories submitted to them by the winner in the fiction category. In two new additions to the prize this year the overall winner will receive a hamper of books from the famous Kenny’s Bookshop of Galway and the winner in the poetry category will have one of the poems from her or his winning entry published in the January 2014 issue of Skylight 47 magazine.

Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of The Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland.
Writers who live in Ireland and wish to be informed of the results by post should enclose an SAE. 

Otherwise, YOU DO NOT NEED TO ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE WITH YOUR ENTRY.  

Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your contact details on a separate sheet.

Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines each, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied by a fee. The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on. You can pay by cheque or Irish postal order to Over The Edge. YOU CAN ALSO PAY ONLINE (via PayPal) SEE BELOW. However, those paying online must still send hardcopy of their entries to Over The Edge, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland and INCLUDE A NOTE that says 'payment submitted online'. To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September 1st 2013 and not have a book published or accepted for publication in the genre in which you enter. Chapbooks excepted. Entries must not have been previously published or be currently entered in any other competition. The competition is open to writers worldwide. If you wish to pay by cheque we accept payment in Dollars, Sterling, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars and so on. Writers from outside the Euro area can calculate the payment for their entry here http://www.xe.com/ucc/

TO PAY YOUR ENTRY FEE ONLINE GO TO

Competition payments

ONE ENTRY €10.00 EUR TWO ENTRIES €15.00 EUR THREE ENTRIES €22.50 EUR FOUR ENTRIES €30.00 EUR FIVE ENTRIES €37.50 EUR SIX ENTRIES €45.00 EUR SEVEN ENTRIES €52.50 EUR EIGHT ENTRIES €60.00 EUR

The closing date is Wednesday, August 7th, 2013. A long-list will be announced at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 29th, 2013 (6.30-8pm). THE LONGLIST WILL BE AVAILABLE, BEFORE THAT, AT CHARLIE BYRNE’S BOOKSHOP FROM 5PM ON THURSDAY AUGUST 29TH. The shortlist will be announced at a special Over The Edge Culture Night event at Kenny’s Bookshop & Gallery, Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road, Galway on Friday, September 20th, 7pm. The winners will be announced at the October Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, October 31st 2013 (6.30-8pm).

This year’s competition judge is Sarah Clancy. Sarah Clancy has been shortlisted for several poetry prizes including the Listowel Collection of Poetry Competition and the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Her first book of poetry, Stacey and the Mechanical Bull, was published by Lapwing Press Belfast in December 2010 and a further selection of her work was published in June 2011 by Doire Press. Her poems have been published in Revival Poetry Journal, The Stony Thursday Book, The Poetry Bus, Irish Left Review and in translation in Cuadrivio Magazine (Mexico). She was the runner up in the North Beach Nights Grand Slam Series 2010 and was the winner of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature Grand Slam 2011. She has read her work widely at events such as Cúirt and as a featured reader at the Over the Edge reading series in Galway, the Temple House Festival, Testify, Electric Picnic, O Bheal and at the Irish Writers’ Centre, she was an invited guest at the 2011 Vilenica Festival of Literature in Slovenia and in Spring 2012 her poem "I Crept Out" received second prize in the Ballymaloe International Poetry Competition. Her second poetry Thanks For Nothing, Hippies was published by Salmon Poetry last year and has been a poetry best seller.

For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748,
e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com  

Eamonn Wall launches Second Issue of Skylight 47-probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication

July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Galway City Library

presents The Launch

by Eamonn Wall,

Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies 

at the University of Missouri-St. Louis,

of the second issue of Skylight 47

probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication

The July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering will see the launch of the second issue of Skylight 47, probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication, with SPECIAL GUESTS EAMONN WALL & PATRICK KEHOE. All contributors to this issue of Skylight 47 are invited to come along and read their poem from the magazine. Eamonn Wall will officially launch the new issue and read some of his own poems. There will is also be a reading by poet Patrick Kehoe. 

The event will take place at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street on Thursday, July 11^th, 6.30-8pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge. Skylight 47 is generously sponsored by Food 4 Thought. Copies of the magazine will be on sale on the evening and can also be purchased here http://www.overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2012/11/skylight-47-possibly-irelands-most.html. Skylight 47 is edited by Nicki Griffin, Kevin 0’Shea & Susan Lindsay, participants in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. 

A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Eamonn Wall lives in Missouri, where he is Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies/Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His poetry has been included in anthologies in Ireland and the United States including The Book of Irish-American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present & Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: a Reader. Eamonn’s essays, articles, and reviews in The Irish Times, New Hibernia Review, The Washington Post & Chicago Tribune. Through his involvement in the Launchpad and Scallta Media initiatives, which he helped set up to encourage the development of young writers and artists in Co. Wexford, he has continued to play a role in the artistic life of Co. Wexford. Sailing Lake Mareotis, Eamonn’s fifth collection of poems, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. He is also the author of Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions which was published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2011. Eamonn’s New and Selected Poems will be published by Salmon next year.

Patrick Kehoe's first poems were published by the late James Liddy in broadsheets and issues of The Gorey Detail. Early poems of his were also published in the Irish Press. In recent times his work has appeared in The Irish Times, Enniscorthy Echo, Natural Bridge, Cyphers and The Scaldy Detail. His debut collection, Its Words You Want was published by Salmon Poetry in July 2011. Paddy will read from his debut collection on the evening. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/bookshop-search.php

Paddy Kehoe

There is no entrance fee.

For further information 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support

of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.