Novelist Lisa Harding among readers for next Over the Edge
Lisa Harding, Jude Flynn and Una O’Farrell are the featured artists in the August Over the Edge Open Reading. The first Over the Edge after the Summer break takes place in Galway City Library next Thursday, August 30 from, 6.30-8pm.
Formerly an actor, who worked in Fair City as well as in the Abbey and Gate Theatres, Lisa Harding is a playwright, short story writer, teacher and novelist. Her debut novel, Harvesting, published by New Island, lifted the lid on sex-trafficking in Ireland. It received huge critical acclaim and was short-listed for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2018 as well as for the Bord Gáis Newcomer of the year Award. It has just been optioned for a film. Dubliner Lisa, who has an M Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity, is about to embark on adapting Harvesting for screen, while her second novel will shortly be submitted to publishers by the Aitken Alexander Literary Agency.
From Galway, Una O’Farrell has a BSc in Clinical Physiology from Dublin Institute of Technology, and worked in healthcare until her career ended prematurely due to her own ill health.
She attended several creative writing classes with Kevin Higgins and has recently completed advanced classes with Susan Du Mars. Una has previously read her poetry at Over the Edge’s Open Mic event in Galway City Library. She has completed her first novel entitled, That’s It, and is in the process of submitting it to be published.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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