Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, 8pm, FREE
The Kitchen @ The Museum
Spanish Arch
Galway
The May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents
readings by John Corless, Elaine Cosgrove, Mick Donnellan and visiting
Australian poet Ross Donlon. The evening will also see the launch of novels by
two unique Galway-based writers Rejini Samuel and Yvonne McEvaddy.
Yvonne McEvaddy has been dabbling in the
written word since early childhood, having decided at the age of 5, when she
read her first Enid Blyton book, that she wanted to be a writer. Her
summer holidays were often spent writing adventures in the remaining pages
of her school copybooks. When not writing she was daydreaming about her books
being available in her local bookstore. Her novel, Passion Killer, is just
published.
Ross Donlon has featured at poetry
festivals in Australia and England. He has won spoken words events as well as
international poetry competitions including the Wenlock Festival Poetry Prize
(U.K.) judged by Carol Ann Duffy (2010), the MPU International Poetry Competition
(2011) and was shortlisted for this year’s Bridport Prize (U.K.) from 8, 200
entries. His latest book, The Blue Dressing Gown and other poems, is published
by Profile Poetry.
Elaine Cosgrove is 26, comes from Sligo and
lives in Galway City. Her writing has been published online at wordlegs, minus
9 squared and UpStart. She was short listed for both the Over the
Edge 'New Writer of the Year Competition' and the Fish Publishing 'One
Page Story Prize' in 2010. Most recently, two of her poems were included in the
wordlegs '30 Under 30' ebook anthology of thirty younger Irish writers. Elaine
was long listed in the poetry category of the Doire Press '1st Annual
Chapbook Competition'. She has recently being accepted onto the MPhil in
Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin.
John Corless lives near Claremorris,
in County Mayo, and is a vastly experienced creative writing tutor. Many
satisfied students have taken John’s creative writing courses at GMIT
Castlebar, over the past number of years. John’s debut poetry collection, Are
you ready?, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2009 and has been a poetry
bestseller. He is the judge for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The
Year competition.
Mick Donnellan is originally from
Ballinrobe. He had an immensely successful year in the theatre in 2011. His
most popular plays to date – Sunday Morning Coming Down, Shortcut to Halleljuah
and Gun Metal Grey – have sold out across the country, inspiring excellent
reviews and standing ovations from sell-out crowds. Mick Donnellan’s
artistic metirs are now also being recognised in the fiction world. His debut
crime novel, El Niño, has just been published.
Rejini Samuel was short-listed for the 2011
Over the Edge ‘New Writer of the Year Competition’ and she was the only entrant
to have both her fiction and her poetry long-listed for the Doire Press ‘1st
Annual International Fiction and Poetry Chapbook Competition’ in January 2012.
Under her pen name R J Samuel, she has just published her first novel Heart
Stopper.
There is no entrance fee. The Kitchen @ The
Museum has a wine licence.
For further information contact
087-6431748.
