THE ARTIST Dagmar Drabent will reveal another side to her talents, when she reads her poetry, along with novelists Gemma Marren and Caroline Healy, at the next Over The Edge Open Reading.
Dagmar Drabent, originally from Hamburg, has lived in Galway since the 1980s. She is finishing her PhD about Swiss writer Robert Walser at NUI Galway. Her poems have been published in Crannóg, Skylight 47, Orbis, and the Blue Max Review. Caroline Healy is an award winning writer of literary and young adult fiction. Her short story collection, A Stitch in Time, won Doire Press's International Chapbook Short Story Competition. Her work has featured in Wordlegs, Prole, The Irish Writers' Centre Lonely Voice, and Five Stop Stories. London-Irish writer Gemma Marren was a finalist in the Irish Writers' Centre 2015 Novel Fair competition, with her novel The Only Child.
Over The Edge is in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 19 at 6.30pm. There will as be an open-mic after the featured readers. The MC will be Susan Millar DuMars. All are welcome.
