Thursday,
December 15th, 2011, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The Featured Readers are Maeve Mulrennan, Christopher
Meehan and Tamar Yoseloff. Tamar Yoseloff, Maeve Mulrennan &
Christopher Meehan for final ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ of 2011
Maeve Mulrennan grew up in County Kildare.
She studied Arts Administration and Policy at NUI Galway is currently Visual
Arts Office at Galway Arts Centre. An experience visual artist, Maeve recently
began writing fiction. She attended Celeste Augé’s short fiction class at
Galway Arts Centre earlier this year and in October took part in the annual
Over The Edge Fiction Slam. This is Maeve’s first major public reading of her
work.
Christopher Meehan is originally from
Kilkee in County Clare but has been living in Kinvara, Co. Galway since
2008. Christopher holds a B.A. degree in Heritage Studies and was awarded
a Master of Science degree in 2007 for research conducted on the wildfowl
populations of the Western Lakes. It is this interest in nature,
landscape, Irish heritage and our interaction with these elements that strongly
influences his writing. He has attended creative writing classes and
workshops run by Susan DuMars in Galway and has published papers based on his
ornithological work.
Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US in
1965, but has lived in the UK since 2007. Her first collection, Sweetheart
(Slow Dancer Press, 1998) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and
the winner of the Aldeburgh Festival Prize. She received a New Writers’ Award
from London Arts for her second collection, Barnard’s Star (Enitharmon Press,
2004). In 2005 she was Writer in Residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She
divides her time between London and Suffolk, and is currently working on her
first novel. Her most recent poetry collection, The City With Horns, was
published in May by Salt Publishing and her work also features in the anthology
Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Spring 2010, Bloodaxe).
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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