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CORK
Cork Poetry
POET'S
PLATFORM AT Tigh Filí Arts Centre
Mac Curtain Street, Cork
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Poetry
Ireland
120 St Stephen's
Green, Dublin 2
Waterford Poetry
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Errigal
Writers
OPEN MIKE POETRY
VENUE
EVERY
TUESDAY @ 8pm : Admission FREE
Glen of Aherlow, 29
Emmet Road Kilmainham
Featuring, special guests, open mike, recordings, & video's
Buses, 78A, 51A, 51B & 51C stop at the door (from Aston Quay). Also
the Red Line Tram stops nearby at Suir Rd. Bridge.
Read your work, catch up on the gossip and hear what's going down!
NEW
KINVARA POETRY NIGHT
9.00pm,
2nd Monday Every Month
GREEN’S BAR, KINVARA
No details
Scribbler’s
Cafe and Wine Bar
Middle Street,
Galway
See North Beach Nights (this page)
Java’s
Coffee House, Abbeygate Steet
The Fiction Clinic with Susan Millar DuMars.
Tuesday
Fee: 8 Euro per session (6 Euro concession) for details 087-9428540
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details
WESTERN
WRITERS’ CENTRE
- IONAD SCRÁDBHNEOIRÁ CHAITLÁN MAUDE
34 Nuns Island,
GALWAY
Western Writers'
Centre Plans Major Autumn Literary Event
www.thepoetrymill.blogspot.com and www.thestorybarn.blogspot.com
Submissions to writersgalway@eircom.net or sylfredcar@iolfree.ie
Galway
Writers Centre
DUBLIN POETRY
Dublin Poetry Revival
VENUE: The Left Bank (behind the Oliver St John Gogarty's
Bar, Fleet St;)
DATE: Every Tuesday night
TIME: 7.30p.m. ‘til 10.30p.m. Open Mic for everyone so come along!!
For more info contact Gerry Mc Namara at write_recite@hotmail.com
2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
€1,000 in prize money
and much, much more
Major Sponsor: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,
other sponsors to date:
ISupply, Quay Street
The Creole Restaurant, Dominick Street (opening soon)
In 2012 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual creative
writing competition. The competition is open to both poets and
fiction writers. 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 2012. The 2012 Over The Edge New
Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at an Over The Edge:
Open Reading to be scheduled in Galway City Library in Winter
2012/13. Salmon Poetry will read, without commitment to publish,
a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category.
Doire Press will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript
of short stories submitted to them by the winner in the fiction
category. The winning poems and the winning story will both be
published in a special Over The Edge Tenth Birthday anthology
which will be published during 2013.
Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year
competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland with an
accompanying SAE. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not
put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your contact details
on a separate sheet.
Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems
of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines.
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. To take part you must be at least
sixteen years old by September 1st 2012 and not have a book published
or accepted for publication in the genre in which you enter.
Chapbooks excepted. Entries must not have been previously published
or be currently entered in any other competition.
The closing date is Wednesday, August 8th, 2012. A long-list
will be announced in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Wednesday,
August 22nd, 2012. A shortlist will be announced at the Over
The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August
30th, 2012. The winners will be announced at the Over The Edge
reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 27th, 2012.
This year’s competition judge is John
Corless. John lives near Claremorris, in County Mayo, and is
a vastly experienced
creative writing tutor. He has an MA in Creative Writing from
the University of Lancaster and is currently researching a PhD.
Many satisfied students have taken John’s creative writing
courses at GMIT Castlebar, over the past number of years. Some
have gone on to win prizes and had their work published. John
has also facilitated workshops with active retired groups in
Ballindine and Ballinrobe also in County Mayo – both groups
launching anthologies of their work. John has facilitated workshops
as part of the Luisne project, and has mentored students in the
UK, USA and Uganda. He has also given workshops at a number of
festivals and summer schools and has worked in national and secondary
schools, facilitating both creative writing and drama workshops.
He has performed his work all over the country, including at
the Electric Picnic, the Force 12 Festival, The Munster Literary
Festival, Over The Edge, and The Whitehouse Poetry Revival. He
regularly features on RTE and local radio stations. He writes
poetry, drama and fiction. His work has been published internationally
and he has won many prizes for his writing. John’s debut
poetry collection, Are you ready? (Salmon Poetry) was published
in 2009 and has sold out two print runs making it a poetry best
seller. John’s poetry is a mix of political and satirical;
one critic described it as Paul Durcan meets The Sawdoctors.
Another said: "... he shines the tell tale torchlight of
his killer wit into all the most embarrassing areas of contemporary
Irish life. No-one is safe..."
For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748,
e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com
or see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
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Galway
May Over The Edge Writers' Gathering
at The Kitchen @ The Museum
with New Writer of The Year Eimear Ryan
The May 'Over The Edge: Open Reading' takes place in Galway City
Library on Thursday, May 31st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers
are Eimear Ryan, Adam White & Bernie Ashe. Eimear Ryan was the
over-all winner of the 2011 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year
competition and this reading is part of her prize. This is the final
Over The Edge: Open Reading before the summer break.
Bernie Ashe was born in Galway city and, apart from some years
in the UK and America, has lived her life there. She took a couple
of creative writing classes with Celeste Augé and Susan
Millar DuMars some years ago, but it wasn't until she attended
poetry classes with Kevin Higgins over the past couple of years
that her interest in writing poetry arose. Since then she has
contributed to Open Mic readings at Over The Edge readings in
Galway City Library and was short-listed in the Over The Edge
New Writer of The Year competition in 2011. Her poetry draws
on themes of relationships and nature.
Adam White is from Youghal in east Cork. He began reading and
writing poetry in earnest three years ago, having taken part
in the North Beach Nights poetry slam in Galway. Teaching English
at present, he has worked in a variety of jobs at home and
abroad, including six years as a carpenter/joiner. It is mainly
the experiences and love of doing a job well that inspire his
poems. He was among the prize winners at the 2011 Cúirt
Festival Poetry Grand Slam and has read his poems at The Electric
Picnic. Adam's debut collection of poems is forthcoming from
Doire Press.
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. She is the 2011 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
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.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous
financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
CREATIVE
WRITING CLASSES & POETRY
WORKSHOPS
WITH
SUSAN MILLAR DUMARS & KEVIN
HIGGINS
AT
GALWAY ARTS CENTRE
STARTING IN EARLY MAY
Writers At Work: A Course With Susan Millar DuMars
TUESDAY
AFTERNOONS
Have you got pages in a drawer you've been wanting
to show someone? This course is for writers who are at work
on a
project. This could be a novel, short story, collection of
stories, sequence of poems, or even a play or film script.
Participants' only homework each week will be to read two
fifteen page extracts from other students' manuscripts and
be prepared for a 20-30 minute discussion on same. Providing
generous and specific feedback on others' work helps us to
be inspired risk takers in our own writing. Each participant
will experience at least one such session of feedback on
their own work. An in-class writing exercise at the start
of each class will serve to further shake off mental cobwebs,
and perhaps lead us into new writing. This is an ideal course
for the hardworking but isolated writer.
The course is takes place on Tuesdays (2-4pm) starting on
Tuesday May 8th and runs for eight weeks. Places must be
booked in advance. The cost to participants is €95
with a concession rate. To register contact Galway Arts
Centre, 47 Dominick Street, Galway. Telephone 091-565886.
Email:
Facilitator Susan Millar DuMars' debut poetry collection,
Big Pink Umbrella, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008.
Her next collection, Dreams for Breakfast, appeared in 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, Lights In The Distance, with
Doire Press in 2010. She has been the recipient of an Arts
Council Literature Bursary for her stories. She lives in
Galway, where she and her husband have run the Over the Edge
readings series since 2003. Susan is currently at work on
her third poetry collection, The God Thing, to be published
early next year by Salmon.
DAYTIME CREATIVE WRITING WITH SUSAN MILLAR DUMARS
MONDAY AFTERNOONS
In May, Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for
all those beginner and continuing creative writing students
out there, both facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars.
The class is suitable for both beginning and continuing creative
writing students, working in either poetry or fiction. Students
will spend their week responding to writing exercises designed
to inspire, rather than inhibit. In class, they will receive
gentle feedback on their work from their classmates and from
the teacher. The class takes place on Monday afternoons,
2-3.30pm, commencing on Monday, May 14th.
The cost to participants is 90 Euro with a concession price.
Booking is essential as places are limited. For booking please
contact Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091
565886 or email
SPRING POETRY WORKSHOPS AT GALWAY ARTS CENTRE WITH KEVIN
HIGGINS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
afternoons
Starting in May, Galway Arts Centre is 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 Furniture was
published in 2010 by Salmon and his work also appears in
the generation defining anthology Identity Parade -New British
and Irish Poets (Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). A collection
of Kevin's essays and book reviews, Mentioning The War ,
has just been published by Salmon Poetry in the Spring of
2012. His next collection of poetry, The Ghost in The Lobby,
will be published in early 2013, also by Salmon.
Kevin is an experienced workshop facilitator and several
of his students have gone on to achieve publication success.
One of his workshop participants at Galway Arts Centre won
the prestigious Hennessy Award for New Irish Poetry, another
the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and yet another the Cúirt
Poetry Grand Slam, while several have published collections
of their poems. Kevin is also co-organiser of the successful
Over The Edge reading series which specialises in promoting
new writers.
Each workshop will run for eight weeks, commencing the week
of May 8th. They will take place on Thursday afternoons,
2-4pm (first class May 10th); on Friday afternoons, 2-3.30pm
(first class May 11th) and on Saturday afternoons, 2-3.30pm
(first class May 12th).
The Friday and Saturday afternoon workshops are open to
both complete beginners as well as those who've been writing
for some time. The Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced
Poetry Workshop, suitable for those who've participated in
poetry workshops before or had poems published in magazines.
The cost to participants is €90, with a concession rate.
Places must be paid for in advance. To reserve a place contact
Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886
or email
AND TAKING ENTRIES NOW
2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
Major Sponsor: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
ISupply,
Quay Street
Ward's Hotel, Lower Salthill
The Creole Restaurant, Dominick
Street (opening soon)
In 2012 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual
creative writing competition. The competition is open to
both poets and fiction writers. 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 2012.
The 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured
Reader at an Over The Edge: Open Reading to be scheduled
in Galway City Library in Winter 2012/13. Salmon Poetry will
read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript submitted
to them by the winner in the poetry category. Doire Press
will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript of
short stories submitted to them by the winner in the fiction
category. The winning poems and the winning story will both
be published in a special Over The Edge Tenth Birthday anthology
which will be published during 2013.
Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the
Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland
with an accompanying SAE. Entries will be judged anonymously,
so do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your
contact details on a separate sheet.
Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems
of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines.
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. To
take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September
1st 2012 and not have a book published or accepted for publication
in the genre in which you enter. Chapbooks and pamphlets
excepted. Entries must not have been previously published
or be currently entered in any other competition. The competition
is open to writers worldwide.
The closing date is Wednesday, August 8th, 2012. A long-list
will be announced in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop on Wednesday,
August 22nd, 2012. A shortlist will be announced at the Over
The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday,
August 30th, 2012. The winners will be announced at the Over
The Edge reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September
27th, 2012.
This year's competition judge is John Corless. 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? (Salmon Poetry) was published in 2009.
For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748
email:
or see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
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