Russian writer to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Feb 17, 2022
THE WRITERS Polina Cosgrave, Sharon Black, Claire Loader, and Vincent Flannery will read from their work at the February Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Edel Coffey and Miriam O’Callaghan at Cúirt 2022
Mon, Feb 07, 2022
EDEL COFFEY, the former Sunday Tribune editor and now a best selling novelist, will be in conversation with RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan at Cúirt 2022.
Read more ...Looking anew at James Joyce’s Galway connections
Thu, Feb 03, 2022
THIS YEAR marks the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking work of modernist fiction, Ulysses, but while that book, and its author, are profoundly rooted in Dublin, Joyce himself had Galway connections.
Read more ...Take a stroll through Joyce’s Ulysses
Thu, Feb 03, 2022
A GALWAY made, two-part radio drama adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses will be aired on Newstalk on February 6 and 13 at 7am.
Read more ...Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase
Thu, Feb 03, 2022
THE ANNUAL Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, takes place in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Friday February 11 at 6pm.
Read more ...What a Complete Aisling authors to read at Cúirt 2022
Mon, Jan 24, 2022
SARAH BREEN and Emer McLysaght, the authors of the immensely popular Aisling comic novels, and young adult fiction writer Bethany Rutter, will read at Cúirt 2022.
Read more ...Representation matters - Breaking Ground Ireland at Cúirt 2022
Thu, Jan 20, 2022
IN APRIL, Galway will host a landmark project showcasing and celebrating 80 writers and illustrators from ethnic minority backgrounds in Ireland.
Read more ...Cúirt New Writing Prize 2022 seeks entries
Thu, Jan 20, 2022
The Cúirt New Writing Prize 2022 is seeking entries for its poetry and short fiction categories, while the judges will be novelist Lisa McInerney and poet Gail McConnell.
Read more ...Kae Tempest - live at the Róisín Dubh
Mon, Jan 17, 2022
KAE TEMPEST, the award winning poet, spoken word artist, and Sunday Times bestselling author releases a new album in April, the same month they play the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Poets and playwrights go Over The Edge
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
POETS AND playwrights, and the launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47, will make up the first Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre New Year poetry workshops
Thu, Dec 23, 2021
STARTING IN January, the Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, facilitated by the acclaimed poet Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...Final Over The Edge of 2021
Thu, Dec 09, 2021
TWO LOCAL writers - Denise Commins and Ódhrán Reidy - and an American writer - Sue Pace - will read at the Final Over The Edge of 2021.
Read more ...New anthology of children’s stories by working class writers
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
LAND OF The Ever Young is a new anthology of writing for children by working class authors - the final volume in a trilogy of working people’s writing from contemporary Ireland.
Read more ...New poetry collection from Denis Mockler
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
THE POET and singer-songwriter, Denis Mockler, will launch his latest collection of poetry live on Facebook this Saturday, December 4, at 6.30pm.
Read more ...New Year online creative writing classes
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
WITH 2021 winding to a close and 2022 on the horizon, many will be looking ahead to what they can finally get around to doing in the New Year.
Read more ...An Spidéal author wins An Post Book Awards for Irish language novel
Thu, Nov 25, 2021
MADAME LAZARE, a novel as Gaeilge by the An Spidéal author and songwriter, Tadhg MacDhonnagáin, has won the 2021 An Post Book Awards in the Irish language category.
Read more ...Gift Fraser! A storybook for children
Thu, Nov 18, 2021
HAVE YOU heard about Fraser, the tallest fir tree in the forest? There is a new story book for children aged between six and 10 this Christmas - and all year - about a fir tree who longs to be picked as a Christmas tree.
Read more ...Nicaragua’s Gioconda Belli to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Nov 11, 2021
GIOCONDA BELLI, the Nicaraguan poet, novelist, Feminist, and defender of human rights, will read at Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom on Thursday November 18 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Loyalist Billy Hutchinson to read at Over The Edge
Mon, Oct 11, 2021
LOYALIST BILLY Hutchinson, a Belfast city councillor, will be among the readers at the Over The Edge annual non-fiction special on Thursday October 28 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...‘There's a definite need for more working-class voices’
Thu, Oct 07, 2021
“AS A reader you want to hear about other lives, but you need to see that you too are worth something, that you and your community deserve to be at the literary top level. Representation matters. Working class voices are still struggling for representation in a middle class industry.”
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