Registration is open!! Do come to PEI this June! lmmontgomery.ca/upcoming-con...

Join us on April 2nd @dculibrary.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of our IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Collection exhibition curated by DCU MA students. @ibbyuk.bsky.social Sign up via Eventbrite to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

AI can fuck right off.

What makes a good children’s book? Do good children’s books have to ‘do’ good? What is the best children’s book? What would you choose? Great discussion with Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt! See what he chose & why! Apply now for 26/27 share.google/CKciWKHdN4ZS5Y…

Hey LEGO here are my 3 reasons you need to make the Anne Of Green Gables submission by Iyan Ha into a LEGO Ideas set! #anneofgreengables #annewithane #lego #legofan #afol #legoideas

Join us for our first Postgrad Coffee Morning of 2026! ☕📚 We'll focus on 'Conferences and Publications', which will be especially helpful for MA and PhD students at the start of their conference and publishing journeys. Open to non-ISSCL members! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...

Join us online!

A very green Christmas 🎄

🔎 Keep an eye on our Conference page for updates on sessions, special events, and lodging: lmmontgomery.ca/upcoming-con... We look forward to seeing you in 2026! 📚🎉 - #lmmontgomery #maud151 #lucymaudmontgomery #anneofgreengables #canadianliterature #lmmi #lmmandchange #princeedwardisland #authors

🎂💐 November 30th marks the 151st birthday of L. M. Montgomery! We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.” 📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...

Thinking about an MA? Interested in children's and YA literature? Press GO! to start your MA journey: expertise and specialist insight into picturebooks, collections, YA fiction, and much more! Sign up for our DCU Postgraduate Open Day! share.google/ZV7z2jZbpRvc...

Our next posgraduate coffee morning is in person and focuses on the transition from MA to PhD! We'll discuss applying for PhDs, writing proposals, finding supervisors, and PhD life itself. For more information and to register, visit our Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...

And the final step on this year’s milestones: graduation. So grateful to my DCU mentors and colleagues as well as my supportive family and friends.

New posts on DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog by our graduates 🎓: share.google/QKVEJEZM4pcp... ‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social & the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI

Support bookstores. Not billionaires. Free shipping on any purchases 10/7-10/8. See our recommendations and more: bookshop.org/shop/peoples... @bookshop.org

Every Child is a Universe Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2025

☕️ Our first online postgraduate coffee morning is next Friday at 11am! A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and discuss your research with fellow researchers of children's and YA literature. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isscl-post...

Our first online postgraduate coffee morning of the academic year is happening on Friday 26th Sept at 11am ☕ A great opportunity to meet, catch-up, and chat with other researchers of children's literature! 📚 Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-post...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Fun delivery this morning 😊

Post-PhD project: guest room curtain using my elderly friend Ellen’s fine old handkerchiefs.

Random photo dump: June sunset, pups, and my latest obsession: small things on shelves.

#MaterialCulture www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Online launch: The 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture" The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature 6 Jun 2025 16:00-17:00 CEST Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...

PhD ✅🎉😊

To celebrate this year's publication of the 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture", we are hosting an online launch on Friday 6th June! Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1377335279...

Swirl Emily Carr 1937

"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.

On either side the river lie/Long fields of barley and of rye… (Tennyson)

Congratulations to Anja Voigt, the recipient of ISSCL's Master's Thesis Award 2025 for her thesis “Young Adult Gothic and the Construction of Adolescent Queerness"! "Having my work be recognized as innovative and valuable is immensely affirming and motivating for me as a young academic" - Anja

Poplar hawk moth!!

The Bounce of Spring Emily Carr c. 1936

Spring 😍

Six years, 237 pages, 76,000 words, three supervisors, major surgery, a global pandemic, a good few migraines, and the girls’ teenage years… done. Submitted this evening; Viva (thesis defense) May 30. Big thanks to all!!

Hazel/Fritillaries/Forget-me-not

Marvellous @isscl.bsky.social 21st bday @dublincityuni.bsky.social 🥳Thanks to @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & our other speakers & panelists, including @chennessybooks.bsky.social & @nikiwan.bsky.social, for an inspiring day exploring the 'magic' & challenges of re-reading childhood books as adults

A St Brigit’s Cross in the wild and a much-needed woodsy walk (not pictured: the kingfisher that passed us after Dixie dragged me back to the riverbank).

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 😆

Applications are now open for Dublin City University’s MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature website: www.dcu.ie/courses/post... blog: dublincityuniversitychildrensandyaliterature.wordpress.com

PhD programmes should take into consideration the extra year it takes to figure out how to format things in MS Word. (Related: if anyone can tell me how to avoid a row of square black dots appearing in random places I’d be very grateful) 😭

#kidlit types: does anyone have a copy of Roberta Seelinger Trite's -Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature-? I just need a page number for the third page of chapter 3...

Although we're celebrating Canada's flag tomorrow, I think we need to reflect on the Indigenous and how they stood by their land and we the colonialists. Here are their flags. Thanks so much to @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social for sharing these a few years back on this site.

Love reading and discussing children's books (I mean who doesn't...) and want to attend a creative writing workshop? Join us for a day of celebrating, chatting about, and writing children's books on 22nd March in DCU! Register below on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-symp...

Frost

#CFP: L.M. Montgomery and Change The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 17th Biennial International Conference Hybrid conference 24-28 June 2026 University of Prince Edward Island Deadline: 1 August 2025 Website: lmmontgomery.ca/conference/2... Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Windscreen magic 😍

Dixie’s 12th birthday ❤️

📣‼️ We are now accepting presentation proposals for the L.M. Montgomery Institute's 17th Biennial International Conference! 📲 For more details, visit: lmmontgomery.ca/conference/2... - #lmmontgomery #maud150 #lucymaudmontgomery #canadianliterature #proposals #writers #callforpapers

Bloody #whamaggedon already 🙄