Creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute
Thu, Jul 26, 2018
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and intermediate levels, taught by the Galway writers Kevin Higgins and Susan Miller DuMars, take place in the Galway Technical Institute in September.
Read more ...EM Reapy to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Jul 05, 2018
EM REAPY, whose debut novel Red Dirt was awarded the 2017 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, will read at the next Over The Edge Writers Gathering in the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...Galway’s biggest literary open-mic
Thu, Jul 05, 2018
THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival and Over The Edge literary events will host what is probably Galway’s biggest literary open mic of the year in the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road.
Read more ...Denis Mockler to launch new poetry collection
Thu, Jul 05, 2018
DENIS MOCKLER is best known as a singer-songwriter, but next week he lain chest a new poetry collection - Poetry From The Heart of Galway.
Read more ...Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
Thu, Jun 21, 2018
THE WRITERS Eleanor Hooker, Nathanael O’Reilly, and Anne Casey, will read from their work at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering, in The Kitchen Café of the Galway City Museum on Friday June 29 at 8pm.
Read more ...A book which should be mandatory reading for short story fans
Thu, Jun 21, 2018
THE STINGING Fly magazine was born in 1998 with the specific aim in mind of providing a platform in Ireland for new short stories, some of which are nowe collected in Stinging Fly Stories, edited by Sarah Gilmartin and Declan Meade, and published by Stinging Fly Press.
Read more ...Mike McCormack wins International Dublin Literary Award
Wed, Jun 13, 2018
GALWAY BASED author Mick McCormack has won the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award for his novel hugely acclaimed novel Solar Bones, published by independent Irish publisher Tramp Press.
Read more ...Three women go Over The Edge
Wed, May 30, 2018
THE WRITERS Anne Walsh Donnelly, Jessamine O’Connor, and Jacqueline Saphra, will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading, which will also see the launch of issue 10 of poetry paper Skylight 47.
Read more ...Julian Gough and connections, connections
Literature Reviews Thu, May 24, 2018
THE PHYSICAL presence and classy design of Julian Gough’s new novel, Connect, really does debunk the classic cliché of 'You can’t judge a book by its cover'.
Read more ...County Galway author wins award for Nora Barnacle inspired story
Mon, May 14, 2018
BALLINASLOE-BASED author Nuala O’Connor has won the prestigious UK-based Short Fiction Prize for her story ‘Gooseen’, about Galway woman Nora Barnacle, wife and muse to James Joyce.
Read more ...Book launches at next Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
Thu, May 10, 2018
FOUR NEW books will be launched at the next Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering - poetry collections by Stephanie Conn, Robyn Rowland, and Kate Ennals, and a new short story collection from Rosemary Jenkinson.
Read more ...Sunflowers and disintegrating lovers
Literature Reviews Thu, May 10, 2018
THE WORK of some poets is great, or at least initially sounds great, when you hear it declaimed from a festival stage, but is rather less rewarding when read on the page, in the absence of the bells and whistles of performance.
Read more ...Free Comic Book Day 2018
Thu, May 03, 2018
FREE COMIC Book Day 2018, the international day to celebrate comic books and comic shops, and to introduce family and friends to comics, falls on Saturday May 5.
Read more ...Book review: Will Galway beat Mayo?
Literature Reviews Thu, May 03, 2018
GROWING AFFLUENCE and increased leisure time are said to be the main reasons for the growing presence of sport in the daily lives of more and more people. The sports sections in newspapers are getting bigger, and there is rarely a news bulletin on radio or TV without a sports report.
Read more ...Julian Gough to launch new novel in Galway
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
JULIAN GOUGH, the author of Juno and Juliet, Jude: Level 1, and Jude In London, will next week launch his new novel, Connect, in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop, Middle Street.
Read more ...May creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
CREATIVE WRITING classes in poetry and fiction will be given by the writers Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, from May.
Read more ...Arrival on Irish poetry scene of true original
Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018
RACHEL COVENTRY was born in Scotland to an Irish mother, spent her teenage years in Galway attending the Mercy secondary school, and lived for most of the 1990s in north London.
Read more ...Cúirt/Over The Edge New Writing Showcase
Thu, Apr 19, 2018
DARA Ó Foghlu, Paul Denby, and Vinny Steed will read from their work at the 13th annual Over The Edge/Cúirt Festival of International Literature New Writing Showcase.
Read more ...Is that a Galway accent?
Thu, Apr 19, 2018
IS THAT A Galway Accent?, the debut album collecting both published and broadcast work, by the award winning Galway writer Anne Marie Kennedy, is to be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop.
Read more ...Songwriters to explain the art of writing lyrics at Cúirt
Thu, Apr 12, 2018
ARE MUSIC and literature separate art forms? Iron Maiden have drawn inspiration from Tennyson, Coleridge, and Robert Burns for their songs; Leonard Cohen was a poet as well as a songwriter, and novelist Polly Samson has written lyrics for David Gilmour and Pink Floyd.
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