Mike McCormack for Over the Edge annual fiction slam
Over The Edge presents its eighth annual fiction slam at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish, Galway this Friday, October 14 at, 8pm when award-winning novelist Mike McCormack will be the featured reader and judge.
Mike, who is originally from Mayo, is a longtime resident of Galway City. His latest work is the critically acclaimed Solar Bones, published earlier this year by Tramp Press, while previous work includes the short-story collection Getting it in the Head (1995), the novel Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.
The first 12 fiction writers to make it to The Kitchen @ The Museum and register this Friday will be guaranteed a place in the slam. All participants should bring two pieces of their own fiction, as there are two rounds. The time limit in both rounds is five minutes. Extracts from longer stories are admissible. Stories do not have to be memorised.
The Fiction Slam will be judged by a three-person jury made up of two audience members and Mike McCormack. Three writers will go through to the second round and the prize for the winner is a bottle of excellent red wine.
■ There is no entrance fee. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.