The Galway City based literary events organisation Over The Edge has announced that its Arts Council grant for 2008 is up on what it received in 2007.

"We have an exciting programme lined up for 2008 which includes our fifth anniversary reading in January at which Pat Boran will be one of the Featured Readers and the annual C?irt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading for emerging writers. Other readers lined up so far for 2008 include Dennis O'Driscoll, Colette Bryce, Roddy Lumsden, Rita Ann Higgins and Michael S Begnal.

We are also delighted that North Beach Poetry Nights organised by John Walsh, with whom we always work very closely, will also for the first time receive Arts Council funding in 2008. It is great to see the sterling work John has done being supported by The Arts Council in this way" said Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins.

The final 'Over The Edge: Open Reading' of 2007 takes place on Thursday, December 13 from 6.30pm to 8pm, in Galway City Library. The Featured Readers are Anne-Marie Fyfe, Aidan Hynes and Val Nolan.

The 2007 North Beach Nights Poetry Grand Slam takes place on Saturday 22 December at 9pm in Richardson's, Eyre Square.

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