Thursday, January 19th, 2012, 6.30-8pm
Galway City Library
The Featured Readers are Dearbhaile Houston, Damian Cunnifee and Leanne O'Sullivan. This is a very special occasion as it is now exactly nine years since Over The Edge was born in Galway City Library in January 2003.
Dearbhaile Houston grew up in Co. Galway.
She is in her first year of New Media and English at the University of
Limerick, learning the art of procrastination and strong coffee. She began
attending Creative Writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars last spring and
recently won the Seán Uí Riordáin prize for poetry in the Oireachtas na Gaeilge
Literary Competition 2011.
Damian Cunniffe is from Abbeyknockmoy in
North County Galway. In 2011 he was longlisted for the Fish Publishing
International Short Story Prize, the Ink Tears Prize and was joint winner of
the Lonely Voices Short Story Introductions competition run by the Irish
Writers Centre. He was also runner-up in the fiction section of the 2011 Over
The Edge New Writer Of The Year competition. His work has been published in Crannóg
and the Cúirt Journal. Damien has had articles published in several newspapers,
including the Galway Advertiser. He is currently working on a play and a
collection of short stories.
Leanne O’Sullivan was born on the Beara
Peninsula in west Cork in 1983, and now lives in Cork city. Her poetry
collections are Waiting for My Clothes (2004) and Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009)
both published by Bloodaxe Books. Her work has been included in various
anthologies, including Selina Guinness’ The New Irish Poets and Billy Collins’s
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry. In 2009 Leanne was awarded the Ireland
Chair of Poetry bursary; in 2010 she won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature;
and in 2011 she received the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry.
As usual there will be an open-mic after
the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. 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 & The Arts Council. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
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