June Over The Edge Writers' Gathering - Nathalie Anderson, Celeste Augé, John Menaghan, Ger Burke, Quincy Lehr, John Walsh

June Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Galway City Library

Thursday, June 26^th, 6.30-8pm

visiting American poets

Nathalie Anderson, John Menaghan,

& Quincy Lehr

Nathalie Anderson 

PLUS

READINGS

by Celeste Augé, Ger Burke

& John Walsh

from the anthology

Over the Edge – the first ten years

(edited by Susan Millar DuMars)

published by Salmon poetry, December 2013

The June  Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by visiting American poets Natalie Anderson, John Menaghan & Quincy Lehr plus readings by Celeste Augé, Ger Burke & John Walsh from the recent anthology Over The Edge-the first ten years. As well as reading their own contribution to the book Celeste, Gerardine & John will each also read work by one other writer featured in Over the Edge-the first ten years. Celeste Augé will read a poem by Sandra Bunting; Ger Burke will read a poem by Jarlath Fahy; and John Walsh will read poems by Adam White.  

Over the Edge: the first ten years is edited by Susan Millar DuMars and was published late last year by Salmon. This lively and varied anthology includes poetry & fiction by forty seven writers who have published a first book since being Featured Readers at an Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library. Over The Edge has, during the past decade, been a vital platform for emerging writers in Ireland and beyond. This book celebrates the writers who have emerged via Over The Edge thus far. 

All are welcome to attend. The book will be on sale on the evening. It can also be purchased directly from the Salmon website http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=317&a=39 and at all bookshops in Galway City. 

The event will take place at Galway City Library, St. August Street, Galway on Thursday, June 26th, 6.30-8pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.

Nathalie Anderson directs the creative writing program at Swarthmore College outside of Philadelphia, and serves also as Arts Representative for the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has authored three books of poetry – Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, and Quiver – and libretti for three operas – The Black Swan; Sukey in the Dark; and an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia.

John Menaghan is a winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards, he has published poems and articles in various journals and given readings in Ireland, England, France, Hungary, and the U.S. He has also had several short plays produced in Los Angeles. Menaghan teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. John’s fourth collection of poems, Here and Gone was published by Salmon in February.

Quincy R. Lehr, the associate editor of The Raintown Review, is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Shadows and Gifts (2013) and the book-length Heimat (2014). His poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous venues in North America, Europe, and Australia, and he lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches history.

Celeste Augé was a Featured Reader at the February 2005 Over The Edge: Open Reading. She is the author of The Essential Guide to Flight (Salmon, 2009) and the collection of short stories Fireproof and Other Stories (Doire Press, 2012). She has received an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary for her poetry. In 2011, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Fiction. She lives in Connemara. 

Ger Burke was a Featured Reader at the October 2004 Over The Edge: Open Reading. Her fiction has been short-listed for the Francis McManus Short Story Award and long-listed for the Fish Histories Prize and the 2012 Fish Flash Fiction Competition. Her novel, My Father’s Lands, was published in 2010 by Wordsonthestreet. Braided Loves, Ger’s new novel, was published in 2013. She is a member of the editorial board of Crannóg. 

John Walsh was a Featured Reader at the April 2003 Over The Edge: Open Reading. He has published three poetry collections, the most recent of which, Chopping Wood with T.S. Eliot was published by Salmon in 2010. John received a Galway County Council Publication Award for his debut short story collection Border Lines (Doire Press, 2012). 

For further information contact 087-6431748.

PROBABLY THE BIGGEST OPEN-MIC EVENT OF THE YEAR Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-mic

PROBABLY THE BIGGEST OPEN-MIC EVENT OF THE YEAR

Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-mic

Over The Edge in association with Westside Arts Festival presents the 2014 Over The Edge Summer Open-mic at Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road on Wednesday, July, 9th 6-8pm

Everyone who has a poem or story to share is most welcome to take part. 

So, if you have some writing you’d like to read to an audience, this is your opportunity to do so.

The MCs for the evening will be Kevin Higgins & Susan Millar DuMars. All are welcome to attend.

Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.

 

Come and read your favourite piece of literature or poetry aloud

Reading from the anthology Over the Edge: the first ten years as part Westside Library celebrations

On Thursday, June 12^th, 6.30-8pm, writers who contributed poems and stories to the anthology Over the Edge: the first ten years will read from the book at Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road. All are welcome to attend. There is no cover charge. 
 

Over the Edge: the first ten years is edited by Susan Millar DuMars and was published late last year by Salmon. This lively and varied anthology includes poetry & fiction by forty seven writers who have published a first book since being Featured Readers at an Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library. Over The Edge has, during the past decade, been a vital platform for emerging writers in Ireland and beyond. This book celebrates the writers who have emerged via Over The Edge thus far. 

Writers taking part in this reading, which is part of Westside Library’s celebration of its own tenth birthday – it opened in 2004 – include: Aideen Henry, Aileen Armstrong, Alan McMonagle, Brendan Murphy, Deirdre Kearney, Eamonn Harrigan, Jim Mullarkey, Lorna Shaughnessy, Martin Dyar, Mary Madec, Miceál Kearney, Órfhlaith Foyle, Paul Casey, Pete Mullineaux, Stephen Murray, Susan Lindsay & Trevor Conway. 

All are welcome to attend. The book will be on sale on the evening. It can also be purchased directly from the Salmon website http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=317&a=39 and at all bookshops in Galway City.

May Over The Edge: Open Reading with Sighle Meehan, Duan Sala & Dimitra Xidous

The May ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, May 29^th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Dimitra Xidous, Duana Sala & Sighle Meehan. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome. 

Sighle Meehan lives in Galway and began writing poems in 2011. She is a participant in the advanced poetry workshop at Galway Arts Centre. Sighle has been shortlisted in the Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition and her poems have been published in Skylight 47 and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2014 Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust poetry competition. Her winning poem Just the One is currently on display as part of Poems for Patience series at University Hospital Galway.

Duana Sala is a graduate of Literature and Languages from the University Cà Foscari, Venice Italy. Born in Italy in 1981 she moved to Galway in 2008, following her deep wild passion for Ireland. She published her first short story Dear Diary,1965 in the book Infusions by Java Writers, a group from Galway who met through Over the Edge literary events and creative writing classes. They meet regularly in Java’s Cafe to write, chat, and inspire each other. She is currently writing her first book, a collection of shorts stories set in Italy. She divides her time between writing, dancing and performing with Galway Swing.

Dimitra Xidous is originally from Ottawa, Canada but now lives in Dublin. Her poems have been published in literary journals in Canada, Ireland and the US. The featured poet in the Spring 2014 issue of The Stinging Fly, Dimitra was a finalist in the 2014 Malahat Review Open Season Awards, shortlisted for both the Bridport Prize (2013) and for the Over the Edge Emerging New Writer Award (2013), and long-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Competition (2011). She curates The Ash Sessions, a poetry and music showcase in Dublin and co-founded and co-edits The Pickled Body, a quarterly poetry & art magazine. Dimitra’s debut poetry collection, Keeping Bees, was published recently by Doire Press. 

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome at the open-mic. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council. 

May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

The May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by fiction writer Anna McCarthy, and poets Cormac Culkeen, Billy Ramsell & Maeve O’Sullivan. The evening will also see a reading, by members of his family, from Tom Duddy’s posthumously published second poetry collection: The Years (HappenStance Press, 2014).  The event will take place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway on Saturday, May 17^th, 6pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.

Tom Duddy was born in 1950 in Ramolin, near the small town of Shrule, Co. Mayo. He came to live in Galway in 1969, and later taught Philosophy in the School of Humanities at NUI Galway. His academic publications include A History of Irish Thought and Dictionary of Irish Philosophers. A chapbook of his poems, The Small Hours, was published in 2006, and his first full collection, The Hiding Place, in 2011. Sadly, in 2012, Tom became ill and died, aged 62. A posthumous collection, The Years, was published earlier this year by HappenStance Press.

Anna McCarthy was born in London and lives in New York with her husband and young daughter. Her work has appeared in Otoliths and was featured in the 2012 Du Maurier Festival. She was an Iowa Review Short Story Awards finalist in 2013 and the winner of the hotly contested fiction category in the 2013 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition. She teaches at New York University.

Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and was educated at the North Monastery and UCC. Complicated Pleasures, his first collection, was published by the Dedalus Press in 2007. He holds the Chair of Ireland Bursary for 2013 and has been shortlisted for several other prizes. He edits the Irish section of the Poetry International website and co-runs an educational publishing company. His most recent collection: The Architect’s Dream of Winter was published in 2013.

Cormac Culkeen is a writer of poetry, fiction and short stories from Dunmore, Co. Galway. Some years ago his work was published in The Burning Bush literary magazine, and more recently, his work has been published in Skylight47. He has been a featured reader at the Over the Edge open reading in October 2012. He lives and works in Galway and has been attending creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute with Susan Millar Dumars.

Maeve O’Sullivan’s poems have been widely published and anthologised since the mid-1990s. Initial Response, her debut collection of haiku poetry was published by Alba Publishing in 2011, and was well-received by critics. She also performs at festivals and literary events with the spoken word group The Poetry Divas. Her poem ‘Leaving Vigo’ was recently nominated for a Forward Prize for a Single Poem by Revival magazine. Her poetry collection Vocal Chords was published earlier this year by Alba Publishing.

For further information contact 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council. 

Spring Daytime Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre

Susan Millar DuMars with Over The Edge co-organiser Kevin Higgins

Starting in the May, Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for all those beginner and continuing creative writing students out there, facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars. Susan Millar DuMars writes both poetry and fiction. A collection of her stories, Lights In The Distance, was published in December 2010 by Doire Press; she has published three collections of poetry, Big Pink Umbrella (2008), Dreams For Breakfast (2010) & The God Thing (2013) all with Salmon Poetry. She is also co-organiser of the Over The Edge reading series which specifically promotes new writers. Susan recently edited the anthology Over the Edge – the first ten years, published by Salmon, which includes work by forty seven writers who have published a first book since they did a reading at an Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library. 


The class is suitable for both beginning and continuing creative writing students, working in either poetry or fiction. Students will spend their weeks responding to writing exercises designed to inspire, rather than inhibit. In class, they will receive gentle feedback on their work from their classmates and from the teacher. The class takes place on Monday afternoons, 2.30-4pm, commencing on Monday, May 12^th. It runs for eight weeks. 


The cost to participants is 90 Euro with an 80 Euro concession price. Booking is essential as places are limited. For booking please contact Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886 or email info@galwayartscentre.ie