THE 15TH annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature/Over The Edge showcase for emerging writers returns on Thursday, April 22nd at 1pm, via Zoom.
Featuring poets and fiction writers, the event brings together writers involved in the Over the Edge events in Galway, the winners of the annual Cúirt New Writing Prize, and Cúirt’s PENxCommon Currency Writer in Residence.
The event will be introduced by fiction writer, poet and teacher Susan Millar DuMars. The readers are Bern Butler, Riona MacEoin, Paul McCarrick, Suad Aldarra, Bernadette Lynch, and David Morgan O’Connor.
The readers at the 2021 showcase
Bernadette Lynch is the winner of the 2021 Cúirt New Writing Prize for poetry. She is also the winner of the International Section of the Hanna Greally Awards at the SiarScéal Poetry Festival in Roscommon in 2012, 2016 and 2020. Her poetry has also appeared in a variety of publications.
Canada born and Dublin based, David Morgan O’Connor is the winner of the 2021 Cúirt New Writing Prize for fiction. His writing has appeared in more than 50 print or online publications.
Suad Aldarra is a Syrian storyteller, data scientist, and software engineer based in Dublin, Ireland. Suad is the Common Currency Writer in Residence for the festival and was long-listed for the Penguin Random House WriteNow 2020 programme.
From Shantalla, Bern Butler writes prose and poetry, and her work has been published in Force 10, The Grey Castle, ROPES, and Skylight 47. She co-edited Another Place, the first Irish anthology of prison writing, and was co-ordinator of the Writers in Prisons Scheme for 10 years.
Riona MacEoin is the co-owner and works at Briarhill Vet Clinic in Galway, and among her many extra-curricular interests is writing fiction.
The poetry of Athlone’s Paul McCarrick has been published in The Blue Nib, Crannóg, Skylight 47, The Stinging Fly, and Poetry Ireland Review.
Bookings are via Eventbrite, with a link to the Zoom event being emailed to participants near to the day of the event. Email [email protected] if you have not received a link within 48 hours of the event date.
