And some upcoming YA titles to keep an eye out for! . #yafiction #yalit #youngadult #youngadultfiction #ya2025 #youngadultbooks #yabooks instagr.am/p/DLaCSckCgjS/

Love this! From WORDS CAN FLY by Donna Ashworth (poems) & Eirinn McGuinness (pictures), published by the always-beautiful Templar Books. (The grownups may be aware of Ashworth's collections for adults, including To The Women.) . #poetry #poetrybook #chi… instagr.am/p/DLhO_TjC3Y0/

Some new titles by Irish writers from @brokensleepbooks (poetry & essays). 🎉📚 . #irishwriting #irishwriters #bookstagram instagr.am/p/DLjkOm2iA5_/

Everything I know about writing Big Things, from my own experience & many years of teaching: Outlining Your Novel | half day | Zoom | small group | interactive | Sat 2nd Aug clairehennessy.com/store/p/outlin…

Nature writing for the younglings in LETTERS FROM WONDERLAND by Josie George (letters) & Becky Thomas (illustrations), out now from Faber Children's. . #naturewriting #letterfromwonderland #lettersfromwonderland #josiegeorge #beckythomas #childrensbook #c… instagr.am/p/DLmSOD5imDj/

Sorry but what else do you do with a yoke like this except show it off on the interwebs? Before guzzling, I mean. (Why hot chocolate in July, you may wonder, and you would be right to question my sanity.) ☕️🖖 instagr.am/p/DLnCRI4CqcX/

Next week (Fri 11th July)! 🎉🖋 (Ticket link in bio) instagr.am/p/DLo7BLFCFgO/

New Inis has landed! @kidsbooksirel (I reviewed a book about UFOs in here!) 👽 instagr.am/p/DLpoqT2CQyW/

Poem from 2022. Please no one quiz me on the science of it. . #poetry #poem #writing instagr.am/p/DLrtghWCWLj/

YA review day! In today's Irish Times (Ticket pp24-5), we look at: 🌋🌈 Vesuvius - Cass Biehn - @atombooks 🗿🌈 Brian Selznick - Run Away With Me - @scholastic_uk 🗽🌈 Abdi Nazemian - Like A Love Story - @littletigerbooks 🧠🌈 Josh Silver - Traumaland - … instagr.am/p/DLt_BykCPKk/

Also v pleased to contribute to this & to yap about some YA and also (gasp) grown-up books that are worth reading this summer. Ticket pp8-10 & also online. 📚☀️ instagr.am/p/DLt_0-kiphE/

New nonsense over at the 'stack. instagr.am/p/DLwfs6YCd5w/

Latest YA book reviews for the Irish Times, featuring: - queer love at the end of the world - the dangers of mental health panaceas - sapphic royal rom-coms & more! irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Now online: irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

July YA column online at the Irish Times now! (In yesterday's print edition.) 🎉📚 instagr.am/p/DLxM4ZrCs69/

Sat 2nd Aug, online. 🖋 small group, highly interactive 🖋 for anyone working on a novel 🖋 ways of approaching Big Projects 🖋 tailored advice 🖋 experienced facilitator & published author 🖋 book now (workshops link in bio) instagr.am/p/DL1tzULCfEt/

Today! 🎉🎉🎉 westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/do…

Such a treat to pop to Bantry for the opening day/night of #WCLF2025, which is a week of wondrous writerly & bookish events in the gorgeous seaside town. Got to have excellent chats with the inimitable Sue Leonard & the fabulous Jennifer Horgan for an ev… instagr.am/p/DL_-5hiCYz9/

This was lovely! Thank you so much to everyone who came along, and for great chats after. 💜✒️

Do forgive the horrible self-promo mode but I did get a memo that apparently Irish women are allowed be proud of their creative work, once they don't Lose The Run Of Themselves... here are some of the gorgeous things some brilliant humans have said about… instagr.am/p/DL661fFCfpe/