I'll be doing a course on Adaptation, from Page to Screen - March 19 for six weeks, starting with the fundamentals of screenwriting, the how's and why's of adapting material, your own or something found like fairy tales or Shakespeare for eg. Practical, part workshop-based, with case studies.

Check out our Spring Course Programme! 🖊️ 🐣 We have a bunch of creative writing courses available, from edgy fiction and short story writing to adapting your writing to screen 🎬 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

I’ll be sharing some work from previous issues over the next week. Here is ‘Making Thrums’ by the brilliant Susanna Crossman. thelonelycrowd.org/2019/12/22/w...

Here’s a blast from the past- very proud of this. The Lonely Crowd is a good place to be.

Thrilled to be nominated for an Irish Book Award for This is My Sea, it’s turning out to be quite the year…massive thanks to my publisher @deirdrenolan.bsky.social who has been an absolute rock 💙🌊🌊

New blog post: a list of Irish literary journals - there are so many!

Two days left to vote in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023. Its been a joy so far. If you need help with your choices I have a couple of suggestions. 😉! #AnPostIBA #ReadersWanted www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

2 days left for this… I feel like the Little Book that Could… in a category with books whose authors have 000s of followers - but are they on Bluesky? With *checks* 123 followers??!! 🫠 C’mon Blueskyers… can I get a vote or a share? 🌊🌊💙💙💫💫 www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

There is no power on earth for authors like word of mouth. Especially with the death of Twitter, so many of us have lost huge chunks of our reach. So please, if you love a book, tell your friends and talk it up on your social media. No voice is too small, every single word counts. And thank you!

Introducing Blue Sky Boy

My new book is out today in all good bookstores (and some evil ones too)! It's called THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD: A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD IN IDIOMS, PROVERBS AND GENERAL NONSENSE, and to prove it wasn't some rush job, here’s a picture of me working on the first draft of it...

This feels like starting at a new school thinking everyone seems nice…

Delighted to be taking part in @DublinBookFest @edelcoffey.bsky.social Megan Nolan and I will be chatting with @321kieran.bsky.social about music, writing and creativity. Some tunes too. Thurs 9 November at the Glass Mask Theatre, 8.15pm #DBF23 Do come! dublinbookfestival.com/event/words-...