Over the Edge readers cover broad spectrum

The Featured Readers in January’s Over the Edge; Open Reading at Galway City Library are  Tim Sniffen, Vinny Steed and Helena Kilty. This reading, which will take place on Thursday next, January 19, from 6.30-8pm marks the 14th anniversary of the first Over The Edge reading in the Library.

Writer and performer Tim Sniffen studied writing and animation at Hampshire College and began working with Chicago’s Second City Theater in 2003: his credits there include The Second City Guide To The Opera, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf and the recent Longer! Louder! Wagner! — The Second City Wagner Companion, a production that took a few jabs at Hitler’s favourite easy-listening music. Tim has written for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and National Public Radio and he keeps his own Tumblr site for “things that everyone else refuses to print”.

Galway resident Vinny Steed has had work published abroad and at home. His poems have featured in the Galway Review, Headstuff, Skylight 47, Crannóg, Into the Void, Tales from the Forest magazine and in the upcoming Ofi Press magazine in February. He was long-listed for the 2015 and 2016 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition and short-listed for the 2016 Doolin poetry competition. One of his poems was recently nominated by Into the Void for the Pushcart Prize. He attends poetry workshops in the Galway Arts Centre.

Helena Kilty also lives in Galway, where she divides her time between writing and working as a psychotherapist. She’s currently completing a collection of short stories. She also writes non-fiction and poetry. Helena is a member of the Galway Writers’ Workshop and completed the MA in writing at NUI Galway in 2012. Her work has been published in Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press), Skylight47, Crannóg, Poems in Profile and in the Abandoned Darlings anthology.

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.