Pure Gold - strangeness and familiarity off the Mayo coast
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
"ABOVE WAS streaked blue, so divinely blue you’d believe in angels, so bright you couldn’t glance at it and not shudder...and amongst this hazy backdrop, I could hear the distant shearing of every make of lawn on the Island."
Read more ...Jake Arden to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Feb 18, 2021
JAKE ARDEN, the son of the writers and activists Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Women Writers of the West - a new online book club
Thu, Feb 11, 2021
AWARD WINNING Galway writers Elaine Feeney, Mary Costello, and Nuala O’Connor will be the focus of the opening weeks of a new online book club - Women Writers of the West.
Read more ...2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
Rita Ann Higgins, one of Galway's most original and outspoken poets, will be among those taking part in the 2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase.
Read more ...‘Lockdown Diaries’ - seeking stories of older people's experience of the pandemic
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
THE GALWAY County Council and Galway Public Libraries are seeking submissions from older residents of Galway city and county to reflect on life in Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...Cúirt New Writing Prize deadline looms
Wed, Jan 27, 2021
THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature New Writing Prize is open for submissions, with poems and short stories being sought.
Read more ...Over The Edge - the birthday edition
Thu, Jan 14, 2021
IF OVER The Edge were a person, it would now be eligible to vote and legally drink alcohol. This month, the literary reading series celebrates its 18th birthday with readings from Kathryn Slattery, Ciaran O’Rourke, and Stephen McNulty.
Read more ...Kevin Higgins' online poetry workshops
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
KEVIN HIGGINS, the acclaimed Galway based poet, will host three online poetry workshops, starting in January, and facilitated by the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...New Year online creative writing classes
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
IT IS said everyone has a book in them, or perhaps a poem, or a short story. Whichever it may be, if getting it onto paper is your ambition for 2021, then a new series of classes will help.
Read more ...The worker's voice in prose
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
“THE COOKS, the cleaners, the porters: unsung heroes on the frontline” was one of the most memorable headlines to appear in an Irish newspaper this year - and perhaps the most pointedly accurate.
Read more ...A Wiser Girl – new novel from Moya Roddy
Wed, Dec 09, 2020
IT IS 1975. Second Wave Feminism is in full flow and a young woman, escaping a failed relationship, travels to Italy to make her dream of becoming an artist a reality.
Read more ...Cúirt Festival announces 2021 dates
Mon, Dec 07, 2020
GALWAY'S LITERARY festival, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature has announced the dates for its 2021 festival, which will take place between Wednesday April 21 and Sunday 25.
Read more ...Fantasy, mediaeval France, and a skylark
Mon, Dec 07, 2020
NINA ORAM, the author of the young adult fiction trilogy, The Carrowkeel Series, will be among the featured readers at next week's Over The Edge: Open Reading.
Read more ...A darkly humorous look at surviving 2020
Thu, Nov 26, 2020
COME THE end of the year, the question will not be, "How was 2020 for you?", but rather "How did you get through 2020?" In his new book, Galway poet Kevin Higgins will provide his answer.
Read more ...The Stinging Fly - Galway 2020 edition
Thu, Nov 26, 2020
LISA McINERNEY, the acclaimed and award winning author of The Glorious Heresies and The Blood Miracles is the guest editor of a special Galway 2020 edition of The Stinging Fly.
Read more ...Doire Press to mark 10th birthday with online reading
Thu, Nov 26, 2020
CONNEMARA BASED publishing company, Doire Press, will mark its 10th birthday with a cross-border/cross-genre reading and panel discussion as part of this weekend's Dublin Book Festival.
Read more ...ROPES seeks submissions
Thu, Nov 26, 2020
ROPES, THE annual literary journal from NUI Galway's MA in Publishing and Literature students is seeking submissions for writers and artists.
Read more ...New poetry collection from Denis Mockler
Thu, Nov 19, 2020
THE POET and songwriter Denis Mockler will launch his new collection of poems, More Poetry From The Heart Of Galway, with a series of Facebook Live events.
Read more ...1981 hunger striker to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
LAURENCE MCKEOWN, who endured 70 days on hunger strike in 1981 in the Maze Prison, and who since become an awarenesses winning writer, will read at the next Over The Edge.
Read more ...'I like to layer a story in the same way a painting is constructed'
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
KEVIN PARKER is a literary agent in London, but his is not a glamorous life. Professionally and personally, everything is falling apart around him.
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