Thursday, April 25th, 2013, 4:30pm, FREE
Town Hall Theatre
Galway
All welcome
The 2013 Cúirt Over The Edge showcase
reading takes place as part of this year's Cúirt International Festival of
Literature.
The writers showcased this year are Dearbhaile Houston, Damian Cunniffe
and Eimear Ryan. The reading will be introduced by regular Over The Edge
host, Susan Millar DuMars.
This event has grown since its inception in 2006
to become one of Ireland's premier platforms for showcasing new poets and
fiction writers. Participating writers have previously been Featured Readers at
Ireland's most successful reading series, the Over The Edge: Open Readings in
Galway City Library. This year the winners of the Cúirt New Writing Prize will
again read with the Over The Edge writers. The Cúirt New Writing Prize is
kindly sponsored by Tigh Neactain in memory of Lena Maguire. http://www.cuirt.ie/Site-Content/cuirt-new-writing-prize-submissions-2013.html
Dearbhaile Houston grew up in Co. Galway.
She is in her second 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 in Spring 2011 and
won the Seán Uí Riordáin prize for poetry in the Oireachtas na Gaeilge Literary
Competition 2011. Dearbhaile was a Featured Reader at the January 2012 Over The
Edge: Open Reading. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2011/12/over-edge-celebrates-ninth-birthday.html
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 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. He is currently working on a play and a collection of
short stories. Damian was a Featured Reader at the January 2012 Over The Edge:
Open Reading. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2011/12/over-edge-celebrates-ninth-birthday.html
Eimear Ryan’s fiction has appeared in The
Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, New Irish Writing, Necessary Fiction and Horizon
Review. She was the winner of the Sean Dunne Young Writers' Award 2011 and the
Hennessy Award for First Fiction 2009. She is currently studying creative
writing at Trinity College and is writing a novel. Eimear was the 2011 Over The
Edge New Writer of The Year and was a Featured Reader at the May 2012 Over The
Edge: Open Reading. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2012/05/new-writer-of-year-eimear-ryan-for-may.html
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
support of Galway City Library, Galway City Council, The Arts Council and The
Cúírt Festival of International Literature.
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