ROPES is a literary journal published by students at NUI Galway, and they are open for submission!
(Details Above.) I met their PR Niamh Callaghan at the
Over The Edge Reading last night in Galway, it was hugely enjoyable night with a great audience. Audrey Dinneen read the most heart breaking pancake making scene you'll ever hear, and the open mic afterwards was packed with exciting poems, sestinas on rugby bums, rifts on hips, coffee bean epiphanies... A lively (and really well run) open mic - it will be on again in December, so if you're near Galway check it out. (And a big thanks to Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars for inviting me.) And...
I'm reading in Croi Anu Creative Centre, Moone, Co Kildare tonight at 7.30pm
It's my last reading of the year, and it's been an exciting, and exhausting year, so I'm really looking forward to crawling back into my cave and getting to grips with some writing. I heard Donna Tartt on the radio this morning, she was asked for writing advice. I waited with baited breathe for some mystical insight, but her tip was pretty practical. The advice that is most often given to writers, and most often ignored by writers - but probably the best - '
write every day - just show up at the page.'
I'm looking forward to doing just that.
Have a great weekend, and good luck if you submit to ROPES :)