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- Autumn Beginners & Intermediate Creative Writing Classes at Galway Technical Institute BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW
- Autumn Poetry Workshops at Galway Arts Centre
- Autumn Daytime Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre
- OCTOBER Over The Edge announces DAYTIME course in Advanced Fiction Writing with Susan Millar DuMars STARTS October 5th
- 2018 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year to be judged by Rachel Coventry YOU CAN NOW ENTER ONLINE
- July Over The Edge Writers' Gathering with Mary O'Donoghue, Eamonn Wall, Elizabeth Reapy, & James Finnegan
- Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-mic
- June Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by poets Eleanor Hooker, Nathanael O’Reilly, and Anne Casey PLUS Skylight 47
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Posted: 11 Aug 2018 11:42 PM PDT
Creative Writing for Beginners with Kevin Higginstakes place one evening per week (Monday) from 7-9pm (10 weeks) with a mid-term break. It commences on Monday, September 24th, 2018. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €120. Kevin Higgins will provide writing exercises for, and give gentle critical feedback to, those interested in trying their hand at writing stories, poems, or memoir. To book a place, go to https://www.gti.ie/parttime/course/detail/t/80/c/201805-005565 Intermediate Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMarstakes place one evening per week (Tuesday) from 7-9pm (10 weeks) with a mid-term break. It commences on Tuesday, September 25th, 2018. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €120. This class is suitable for those who’ve participated in creative writing classes before or begun to have work published in magazines. Flexible exercises and work-shopping of assignments, together with the study of the works of published writers, will help each class member to find their own writing voice. To book a place, go to https://www.gti.ie/parttime/course/detail/t/80/c/201805-005601  YOU CAN ALSO BOOK in person at Galway Technical Institute, Monday-Friday, (10am-4.30pm) when GTI re-opens after the Summer break in late August. For further information contact Galway Technical Institute, Father Griffin Road, Galway, phone 091-581342 or email gtiad...@gretb.ie or see http://www.gti.ie   |
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Autumn Poetry Workshops at Galway Arts Centre Posted: 11 Aug 2018 11:30 PM PDT Starting in September, Galway Arts Centreis offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet. Kevin’s second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in 2008 by Salmon Poetry and his poetry is discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry. His third collection Frightening New Furniturewas published in 2010 by Salmon. His work also appears in the generation defining anthology Identity Parade –New British and Irish Poets (Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010) and The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems(Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe April 2014). A collection of Kevin’s essays and book reviews, Mentioning The War, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2012. Kevin’s poetry has been translated into Greek, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese & Portuguese. His fourth collection of poetry, The Ghost in the Lobby, was published in 2014 by Salmon. Kevin's poetry was the subject of a paper 'The Case of Kevin Higgins, or, The Present State of Irish Poetic Satire' presented by David Wheatley at a Symposium on Satire at the University of Aberdeen. Kevin was satirist-in-residence with the alternative literature website The Bogman’s Cannon2015-16 and is Writer-in-Residence at University Hospitals Galway. 2016 – The Selected Satires of Kevin Higginswas published by NuaScéalta in early 2016; a pamphlet of Kevin’s recent political poems The Minister For Poetry Has Decreed was published in 2016 by the new Culture Matters imprint of U.K. based Manifesto Press. Song of Songs 2:0 – New & Selected Poems is published by Salmon (Spring 2017) and launched at the 2017 Cúirt Festival. The Stinging Flymagazine described Kevin as “likely the most widely read living poet in Ireland”. His poems have been quoted in The Daily Telegraph, The Times (UK), The Independent, The Daily Mirror, on Tonight With Vincent Browne; and read aloud by film director Ken Loach at a political meeting in London.  Each week Kevin will give participants a poetry writing exercise for the following week and will offer each participant constructive suggestions as to how her or his poem can become the best possible poem it can be. Each workshop will run for ten weeks, commencing the week of Monday September 24th. They will take place on Tuesday evenings, 7-8.30pm (first class Tuesday, September 25th); on Thursday afternoons, 2-4pm (first class Thursday, September 27th) and on Friday afternoons, 2-3.30pm (first class Friday, September 28th).  Places must be paid for in advance. To reserve a place contact reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886, email in...@galwayartscentre.ie, or go to Galway Arts Centre.ie   |
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Autumn Daytime Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre Posted: 11 Aug 2018 11:21 PM PDT Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for all those beginner and continuing creative writing students out there, facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars.
 The class takes place on Monday afternoons, 2.30-4pm, commencing on Monday, September 24th. It runs for 10 weeks. The cost to participants is 110 Euro with an 100 Euro concession price. Booking is essential as places are limited. There are no refunds once the class has started. For booking please contact Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886, email in...@galwayartscentre.ie, or go to Galway Arts Centre.ie   |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2018 11:09 PM PDT  Susan Millar DuMars with Over The Edge co-organiser Kevin Higgins THE CLASS TAKES PLACE on FRIDAYS, 2-4pm for 8 weeks. ABOUT THE TUTOR: Susan Millar DuMars’ debut poetry collection, Big Pink Umbrella, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008. Her next collection, Dreams for Breakfast, appeared in April 2010. Her work features in Landing Places, Dedalus’ 2010 anthology of immigrant poetry written in Ireland; and also in The Best Of Irish Poetry 2010. A fiction writer as well, she published a collection of short stories, American Girls, with Lapwing in 2007. She published a book of short stories in 2010: Lights in the Distance, published by Doire Press and was the Featured Fiction writer in the American online magazine The Atticus Review. She has been the recipient of an Arts Council Literature Bursary. Susan's third collection of poetry, The God Thing, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2013; her fourth book of poems Bone Fire was launched recently at the Cúirt Festival of International Literature. She lives in Galway, where she and her husband have run the Over the Edge readings series since 2003. Susan edited the anthology Over the Edge – The First Ten years, published by Salmon, which includes work by forty seven writers who have published a first book since they did a reading at an Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library. STARTING FRIDAY OCTOBER 5th (with a mid-term break on November 2nd). Maximum Number students: 5 CLASS DESCRIPTION: this class is for those serious about writing short or long fiction; those who are working on a fiction project independently and feel they need feedback and support. From week one, each student will be responsible to email an extract from their story or novel to Susan Millar DuMars and their classmates by Wednesday noon. Students will also bring hard copies of the piece into class. Students can submit up to 5 double spaced pages each week. In each session we will provide feedback to each student. Susan’s feedback will be detailed as it will be based on her earlier reading of the work. Thus, each student will receive detailed feedback on a total of 40 pages of work. Price: €140 for 8 weeks payable in advance. There are no refunds. To guarantee a place you must pay in advance. If you have been struggling with a short story or a novel, this is the class for you. The class is organised by Over The Edge literary events and will take place at 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway. Five minutes from NUI Galway. Parking available.  YOU CAN REGISTER ONLINE NOW FOR THE CLASS STARTING FRIDAY OCTOBER 5th. ADVANCED FICTION DAYTIME CLASS  |
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2018 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year to be judged by Rachel Coventry YOU CAN NOW ENTER ONLINE Posted: 08 Aug 2018 09:35 AM PDT UPDATE 8/8/2018 - we will accept entries postmarked August 8th (even if they arrive after that date) and will accept online entries until midnight tonight August 8th (your local time).
2018 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition OPEN TO POETS &FICTION WRITERS WORLDWIDE YOU CAN NOW ENTER ONLINE COMPETITION JUDGE: Rachel Coventry   Major sponsor Charlie Byrne's Bookshop  Other sponsors: DEADLINE: Midnight on Wed, August 8th If you make your payment online before midnight on August 8th, we will accept your entry. And we will accept all entries postmarked August 8th or earlier, even if they arrive after that date. Extracts from novels absolutely accepted. As well, of course, as short stories and poems. In 2018 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual international creative writing competition. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown to become one of the most important competition’s for emerging writers in Ireland and internationally. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers worldwide. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2018. The 2018 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at Ireland’s leading literary reading series, the Over The Edge: Open Readings in Galway City Library, on a date to be scheduled in Winter 2018/19. Salmon Poetry will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category. Turas Press will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript of short stories submitted to them by the winner in the fiction category. The overall winner will receive a hamper of books from the famous Kenny’s Bookshop of Galway, Ireland. The winner in the poetry category will have one of the poems from her or his winning entry published in the Spring 2019 issue of Skylight47 magazine. Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland or emailed (as attachments) to over-the-edge...@hotmail.com. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or stories. Put your contact details on a separate sheet (or in the body of your email, if you enter online). If you live in Ireland and wish to be informed of the results by post, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope. OTHERWISE, YOU DO NOT NEED TO ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE. Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Any of the aforementioned is one entry. Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied by a fee. The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on. Fee payable by cheque or money order to Over The Edge. The competition is open to writers worldwide. We accept payment in Dollars, Sterling, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars and so on. Writers from outside the Euro area can calculate the payment for their entry here http://www.xe.com/ucc/ WE ALSO NOW ACCEPT ONLINE PAYMENTS. See below for details. If you pay the entry fee online you can still, if you wish, post us a hard copy of your entry/entries and enclose with it a note saying ‘entry fee paid online’; you may also email us your entries (see above). PLEASE INCLUDE THE EXACT NAME IN WHICH THE ONLINE PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE SO THAT WE CAN VERIFY. To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September 1st 2018 and not have had a book published or accepted for publication in the genre in which you enter. Chapbooks/ pamphlets excepted. Entries must not have been previously published or be currently entered in any other competition. The closing date is Wednesday, August 8th, 2018. A long-list will be announced at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 30th 2018 (6.30-8pm). THE LONGLIST WILL BE AVAILABLE, BEFORE THAT, AT CHARLIE BYRNE’S BOOKSHOP FROM 5PM ON THURSDAY AUGUST 30th. The shortlist will be announced at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 27th, 2018 (6.30-8pm). The winners will be announced at the October Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, October 25th, 2018 (6.30-8pm). ABOUT THE COMPETITION JUDGE Rachel Coventry was born in Edinburgh to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. Since then she has moved back and forth over the Irish Sea seven times. She lived in London for ten years but is now almost settled in Galway where she is studying for a doctorate in Martin Heidegger’s poetics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her poetry is widely published in journals including Poetry Ireland Review, The Shop, and Cyphers. Rachel won the Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust Annual Poems for Patience Competition in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize. In 2015 she was highly commended in the Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Competition. Currently, she teaches Economics and Philosophy on the Access Programme at NUIG. Afternoon Drinking in the JollyButchers, her debut collection, was published recently by Salmon Poetry. TO PAY YOUR ENTRY FEE FOR 2018 OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR ONLINE SEE BELOW  |
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Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:27 AM PDT July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by Mary O’Donoghue, Eamonn Wall, Elizabeth Reapy, & James Finnegan. The July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents an exciting variety of poetry and fiction. The event will take place on Thursday, July 12th, 6.30pm at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.  Mary O’Donoghue’s stories have most recently appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Irish Times, Stinging Fly, Dublin Review, and elsewhere. Her novel Before the House Burns was published by The Lilliput Press in 2010. Awards and recognition for her fiction include the Irish Times prize for short fiction responding to economic crisis; two Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowships; and longlisting for the Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award. She is Fiction Editor at the journal AGNI, and Professor of English in the Arts and Humanities division of Babson College, Massachusetts. She lives with her husband and step-daughter in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Eamonn Wall is the author of Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2015), among other poetry publications. His prose books include Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (Notre Dame, 2011) and From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish (Wisconsin, 2000). He recently co-edited Coleridge and Contemplation, published by POETICA (Tokyo). Articles, essays, and poems have been published in The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Irish Literary Supplement, New Hibernia Review and other publications. An Enniscorthy native, Eamonn Wall lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he is the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies/International Studies & Programs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is a past-president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and is currently a vice-president of Irish American Writers & Artists Inc.  Dublin-born James Finnegan has been highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition, short-listed in Over The Edge New Writer of the Year, short-listed in The Canterbury Anthology for Poet of the Year, and published in The Irish Times – Hennessy New Irish Writing, Poetry Ireland Review, CYPHERS, Skylight47, North West Words, and the anthology The Best New British & Irish Poets 2018. Finnegan, who holds a doctor of philosophy in living educational theory, is married to Livinia and lives outside Letterkenny in the countryside. His first full collection of poems, Half-Open Door, is published by Eyewear Publishing and was launched in Listowel on June 1st2018.  Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of the ArtsCouncil,  |
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Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-mic Posted: 27 Jun 2018 05:08 PM PDT PROBABLY THE BIGGEST LITERARY OPEN-MIC OF THE YEAR  Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-mic Over The Edge in association with Westside Arts Festival presents the 2018 Over The Edge Summer Open-mic at Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road on Wednesday, July 11th, 5pm-8pm. Those taking part will include visiting students studying creative writing on this year’s NUI Galway International Summer School. Everyone who has a poem or story to share is most welcome to take part. So, if you have some writing you’d like to read to an audience, this is your opportunity to do so.  Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.  |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2018 06:11 AM PDT The June Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents an exciting variety of poetry from Galway, Tipperary and Australia. There will be readings by Anne Casey, Nathanael O’Reilly, & Eleanor Hooker PLUS a celebration of the first ten issue of Galway-based poetry newspaper Skylight 47 DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED.  The event will take place on Friday, June 29th, 8pm at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.  Anne Casey is originally from Clare and now lives in Sydney. Her poems have appeared internationally in newspapers, magazines, journals, anthologies, podcasts, broadcasts, videos, music albums, a stage show and an international art exhibition. Her debut poetry collection, where the lost things go was published to much acclaim by Salmon Poetry in 2017. She has won or been shortlisted for poetry awards in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. Over a 25-year career, Anne has worked as a business journalist, magazine editor, media communications director and legal author. Further information: http://anne-casey.com/. Twitter: @1annecasey.  Nathanael O’Reillywas born and raised in Australia. He has travelled on five continents and spent extended periods in England, Ireland, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, where he currently resides. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in ten countries, including Antipodes, Australian Love Poems, Cordite, FourW, Glasgow Review of Books, LiNQ, Mascara, Postcolonial Text, Snorkel, Tincture, Transnational Literature, Verity La and The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2017. O’Reilly is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. He is the author of Preparations for Departure (UWAP Poetry, 2017), named one of the “2017 Books of the Year” in Australian Book Review; Distance (Picaro Press, 2014; Ginninderra Press, 2015); and the chapbooks Cult (Ginninderra Press, 2016), Suburban Exile (Picaro Press, 2011) and Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010). He was the writer-in-residence at Booranga Writers’ Centre in May 2017.  Eleanor Hooker is a poet and writer. She lives in North Tipperary with her husband Peter, they have two sons. Her second poetry collection, A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) was published October 2016. In 2013 her debut, The Shadow Owner's Companion (Dedalus Press) was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award for Best First Irish collection from 2012. Eleanor is founder of the Rowan Tree Readings, a reading series that will feature international poets and authors. The series begins June 2018. Her poetry has been published in Ireland and internationally: in the UK, USA, Germany, Poland, Romania, India and Hungary, and in literary journals including: POETRY (Chicago), PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, AGENDA Poetry, The Stinging Fly, The SHOp, The Moth, The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, Crannóg, POEM: International English Language Quarterly, Cyphers. Online, her poems have been published at Southword, New Dublin Press, And Other Poems, Poethead, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Ofi Press, The Pickled Body, Public Pool and broadcast on RTÉ Radio One. Eleanor has read her poetry at literary events in Ireland, USA (Pittsburgh, Washington), India (Mumbai International Literary Festival) and Hungary (Budapest). Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.  |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 12:34 PM PDT The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 30th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Lisa Harding, Jude Flynn, &Una O’Farrell. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for the 2018 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year for which the competition judge this year is poet Rachel Coventry.
Una O’Farrell was born in Galway. Una has worked in Health Care throughout her career which ended prematurely due to ill health. Her career was spread across hospitals in Dublin Limerick and Galway along with a number of breaks to rear her family. Throughout her life Una has moved around the country and settled in Galway twenty years ago where she lives with her husband. Una has a BSc in Clinical Physiology from Dublin Institute of Technology. Una attended several creative writing classes with Kevin Higgins and has recently completed advanced classes with Susan Du Mars. She has read her poetry at the open mike at Over the Edge events at the Galway City Library. She has completed her first novel of fiction titled “That’s It” and is in the process of submitting it to be published. Jude Flynn is a graphic designer and an emerging writer of predominantly short fiction originally from Athlone. He has attended a series of writers’ workshops at GTI and GMIT during his time living in Galway. Major influences on his writing have been the works of David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Carver, Lionel Shriver and many others. Thematically, Jude's short stories tend to centre around childhood and adolescence and how the world is interpreted and misinterpreted through a youthful gaze.  Lisa Harding is a playwright, short story writer, actress and novelist. She played Connie in RTÉ’s Fair City and has performed at the Abbey, the Gate, and the Lyric, among others. Her prize-winning novel Harvesting was published by New Island to critical acclaim and has just been optioned by an IFTA and BAFTA winning director. Her second novel is shortly to go on submission with Aitken Alexander, and she is about to embark on the process of adapting Harvesting for screen. Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.  |
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