Over the Edge hosts gathering for February

Kate Fox, Jake Arden and Rozz Lewis are the Featured Readers for February’s Over the Edge: Open Reading. It will take place on Zoom next Thursday, February 25, from 6.30-8pm.

The usual Open-Mic session will take place after the Featured Readers have finished and new readers are welcome. Anyone interested in taking part should text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or email over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com between 6pm and 6.30pm next Thursday.

English-based Jake Arden was born in Galway, the son of writers and activists Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden. After atteding university in London, he worked in the voluntary, local government, higher education and charity sectors for years.  He has published a short collection, Spartans of the Corrib (2015), based on his bohemian childhood, and a novel A Little Patch of England (2020), inspired by the history of East Kent during World War Two. He is currently working on a new novel, The Romantic Awakening of Kitty Pemberton, about a group of Kent tourists who visit Paris in 1830 and get swept up in the Glorious Three Days Revolution.

Rozz Lewis is a primary school teacher living in Carlow. Her stories have been published in literary magazines like Stinging Fly, Crannóg, Boyne Berries, Wordlegs, Silver Apples, Spontaneity, Galway Review and Literary Orphans. She has been listed for the New Planet Cabaret, Penguin Short Story and Fish Fiction Prizes. Rozz was highly commended for the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2016.

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