Thursday, September 26th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE
Galway City Library
The
Featured Readers are Padhraic Harris, Rachel Coventry and John Foulcher.
There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished.
Rachel Coventry had been writing poetry and
fiction since September 2010 when she did a beginners creative writing class
with Kevin Higgins. Her work has appeared in Skylight 47, The Burning Bush 2, Boyne
Berries, Bare Hands, and the First Cut. She was short listed for the 2012 Over
The Edge New Writer of the Year Competition. She is currently studying for a
PhD in the philosophy of art at The National University of Ireland, Galway.
Padhraic Harris lives in Galway where
he practises law. He dabbled in writing in his youth. Samples of his early
short stories may be found in Criterion magazine. After a long break he renewed
his interest in writing in the past year and finds inspiration, encouragement
and enjoyment in creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute.
John Foulcher has published nine books of
poetry and a textbook about writing poetry. His poems were set for study on the
New South Wales Higher School certificate for over 10 years in the 80′s or
90′s. His poetry is described by the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
as ‘simple, direct and convincing’. John received a Young Writer’s Fellowship
from the Oz Council in 1981 (Light Pressure came out of that); Australia
Council General Writing Grant, 1977; Australia Council Young Writer’s
Fellowship, 1980. He won the National Library Bicentennial Award in 1988, the
ACT Book of the Year Award in 1994, received an Established Writers Grant from
the Oz Council in 2003, and in 2010-11 was the Oz Council’s resident in the
Keesing Studio in Paris. He has been the poetry editor of both The Canberra
Times and the Voices, the magazine of the National Library. In 2010, he was
awarded a writer in residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts by
the Literature Board of the Australia Council. His most recent and widely
acclaimed book, The Sunset Assumption, was the result.
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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