Over the Edge returns

Aoife Reilly is originally from Laois, but has been living in Galway since 2012. She works as a psychotherapist and teacher and has been attending the workshops run by poet Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre since Autumn 2013. Aoife’s poetry has been published in Crannóg, Skylight 47, on the Poethead website, and in a wide variety of other poetry magazines recently.

Matt Flesk is originally from Tuam, and now lives just outside Galway City. He is a retired school teacher and has completed a number of creative writing classes with fiction writer Susan Millar DuMars. Matt was short-listed for 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.

Poet Jessica Traynor was born in Dublin in 1984. The Literary Reader at the Abbey Theatre and a creative writing teacher, she has published poems in a variety of magazines and journals and her work is included in a number of anthologies including If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song (Dublin’s One City One Book, 2014) and The New Planet Cabaret Anthology. She won the 2011 Listowel Poetry Prize and the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award in 2013. Jessica was awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary in 2014. Her debut collection Liffey Swim, was published last year by Dedalus Press and shortlisted for the Shine/Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish poet. She has recently been commissioned to write a poem as part of the Poet’s Rising project, sponsored by the Arts Council, to mark the 1916 Rising.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome.

The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.