Over the Edge continues on Zoom
The next Over the Edge: Open Reading’ takes place next Thursday, February 24, from 6.30-8pm on Zoom. The Featured Readers are Vincent Flannery, Claire Loader, Sharon Black and Polina Cosgrave.
There will be an open-mic session after they’ve read and new readers are welcome.
New Zealand-born Claire Loader is a writer and photographer living in Galway. Her work has been published in magazines, including Poetry Bus, Splonk, Crannóg and Skylight47.
She won the Women Speak Poetry Competition in 2019 and her story, Return, was shortlisted for the Allingham Flash Fiction Prize that year. She is a Forward and Pushcart Prize nominee and her first collection, Pushed Toward the Blue Hour, will be published this year.
Vincent Flannery is a creative writing student at NUIG whose poems have been published in ROPES.
Glaswegian Sharon Black is a poet whose work has won prizes including the Guernsey International Poetry Competition 2019 and The London Magazine Poetry Prizes 2019 and 2018. Her collections are To Know Bedrock and The Art of Egg. Further collections will appear this year.
Polina Cosgrave was born in Russia and has a degree in English and French from Volgograd State University.
Her poetry has been published in Russian, while her story, Ivan’s Choice, is in the anthology Twist On The Sprat Can.
Now living in Ireland, her debut poetry collection here, My Name Is, was published by Dedalus Press. She’s featured in the Forward Prizes Book of Poetry 2022 and her work is in journals and anthologies.
To take part in the open mic, text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or message the Over the Edge Facebook page between 6pm and 6.30pm next Thursday.
Details on the Zoom link also at 087-6431748.