Thursday, September 29th, 2011, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
Featured Readers are Aileen Armstrong, Davnet
Heery and Moyra Donaldson. The evening will also see the announcement of the
winners of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year. The competition
judge is Elaine Feeney.
Aileen Armstrong’s writing has appeared in
the Stinging Fly, Three Times Daily, Some Blind Alleys, and Cuadrivio (in
Spanish translation). In 2009, she graduated from the M.A. in Writing programme
at NUIG, and in 2010, she received a literature bursary award from the Arts
Council of Ireland. She lives in Co. Galway, and is currently working on a
collection of short stories.
A long-time resident of Cois Fharraige,
Connemara, Davnet Heery enjoys solitary walks along the shore and on the bog,
day-dreaming. Recently graduated from the MA in Writing at NUIG she has had a
giddy summer reading at literary festivals countrywide for the launch of the
class anthology Bicycles with Umbrellas. Primarily a poet (she has been grant
aided by Galway Co.Co. to work towards a collection Camellia) she also enjoys
writing plays. Her short story The Little Girl in Pink was short-listed for The
Francis Mc Manus award, 2011.
Moyra Donaldson was born and brought up in
Co Down and has been described as one of the country’s most distinctive and
accomplished writers: a poet whose voice is full of integrity and mystery. Her
first full collection of poems Snakeskin Stilettos was published in 1998,
followed by Beneath the Ice in 2001, both from Lagan Press. She has received
four awards from the Arts Council NI, most recently, the Artist Career
Enhancement Award. Moyra’s poems have featured on radio and television,
including the Channel 4 production, Poems to Fall in Love With. Horse’s Nest,
was published by Lagan Press in 2006 and described in Poetry Ireland Review as
‘one of the most enjoyable poetry books of the last few years.’ Her most recent
collection, Miracle Fruit, was published by Lagan Press in November 2010.
There will be an open-mic when the Featured
Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share.
New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars.
There will be an open-mic when the Featured
Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share.
New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748 or see our website http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway
City Council and The Arts Council
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