CELESTE AUGÉ, Marie Cadden, and Hedy Griffin have been announced as the winners of this year’s Cúirt New Writing Prize.
Celeste Augé won the fiction category, Marie Cadden for poetry, and Hedy Griffin for memoir. Each recieves €500 and a reading slot at the Cúirt/Over the Edge Showcase on Wednesday April 13 at 3.30pm in Druid Lane.
Celeste Augé was born in Canada and now lives in Galway. She writes fiction and poetry, and is working on a collection of short stories and a second volume of poetry.
Marie Cadden lives in An Spidéal. Her poems have been published in The Recorder, THE SHOp, ROPES, and Revival.
Corkonian Hedy Gibbons has lived in Galway for 30 years. Formerly a mid-wife, latterly a counselling psychologist, her work has been broadcast on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany and Lyric FM’s Quiet Quarter.
