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new lil substack :)

Don't take writing advice too seriously! Trust yourself and your instincts. Follow what excites you and do what feels right to you. You've got this! #ukteenchat

Something wildly different! Adult creative-non-fiction in verse! (although I'm playing with an idea for a YA as well!) #ukteenchat

Pantser forever! I can't plan at all! I write with no idea what will happen and completely out of order. I'm 100% at the mercy of my mood and whatever pops into my mind. I do pinterest a lot though! #ukteenchat

Mostly I think I'm just more confident! TDB was my second book and I was terrified that my first book had been a total fluke, that I'd fooled everyone, that I wouldn't be able to do it again. Now I have more faith in my writing ability and I know my own style much better! #ukteenchat

I trust my characters. I write for everyone so I let the characters guide me and I follow what they need! I don't approach the actual writing any differently ☺️ #ukteenchat

That you don't need to know everything about yourself to BE yourself. That learning about yourself is a lovely, exciting, fascinating thing. That someone somewhere gets it. That community is a special thing. That you deserve the time, space and grace to learn who you are. ❤️ #ukteenchat

There may or may not be a... hand holding scene! 😮 (it's very sweet and meant the world to me!) #ukteenchat

For readers: it's just so accessible. It can seem intimidating but it has rhythm, space and shape that make it so wonderful to read. Also, less words 😆 It's the perfect form for themes like mental health because every word is so deliberate and it gets straight to the heart of the - #ukteenchat

The Deepest Breath was adapted by a New York theatre company, Treehouse Shakers. Seeing the play made me so desperate to check in & see how my wee characters were doing! It was so inspiring. I was curious to see how they would handle a new school & new challenges. (Also I missed them!) #ukteenchat

It's a follow-up to my book The Deepest Breath! In this one we follow Stevie, Andy & Chloe as they start secondary school. The girls are super excited to join the Rainbow Club but suddenly Andy starts to distance himself and they don't know why. It's about friendship, anxiety & identity #ukteenchat

So excited! Thanks for having me! #ukteenchat

'I’m a chronic overthinker, but I was told by a writer I know to just get the words down' —Meg Grehan talks with Liam Maguire @megcathwrites.bsky.social @liammaguire.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/just-write-t...

Next #ukteenchat tonight - Tues 6th May 8-9pm BST with the lovely @megcathwrites.bsky.social here on BlueSky. She'll be chatting all about her new book, The Brightest Star. All welcome to come along and join the chat 🙂 #YA #kidlit #writerslife #WritingCommunity @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @megcathwrites.bsky.social, @grainneobrien.bsky.social & Siobhán Parkinson for a wonderful evening of conversation ❤️ As much a celebration of the verse novel as a discussion of beautiful new work from these rising stars in children’s literature ✨ @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

Join @megcathwrites.bsky.social and @grainneobrien.bsky.social at @booksupstairs.bsky.social on Thursday 1st May, 6:30pm at @booksupstairs.bsky.social for a very special #PoetryDay conversation on verse novels with Siobhán Parkinson! Book your FREE ticket: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

can you believe we get two (TWO) books by @heatherchristle.bsky.social this year? I am soon to speak of nothing else.

I am the luckiest author, this cover is a dream 🥹 Coming May 1st from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social 💜 Cover by the very wonderful Nene Lonergan!

The Soul selects her own Society Then shuts the Door To her divine Majority Present no more

'...there’s a passion there, a liberated frustration, a release, along with a simplicity that welcomes you and a depth that keeps you reading.' Meg Grehan talks with Aoife Riach 📕 @megcathwrites.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/a-beautiful-...

Happy birthday Emily Dickinson, I will be insufferable all day x

“Buy books of poetry and give them to people.” (Words intoned by Jericho Brown at an event on Friday, running in my head since then. So now I’m putting them in your head too.) They don’t even have to like poems, because then you are also giving them “having poetry in your life” which is HUGE.

Introducing January Pages! Hi #writer friends! If you would like to receive a little letter and writing prompt in your inbox every morning of January 2025, you can sign up here - www.meg-grehan.com/inky-fingers...

Introducing January Pages! Hi #writer friends! If you would like to receive a little letter and writing prompt in your inbox every morning of January 2025, you can sign up here - www.meg-grehan.com/inky-fingers...

writing for adults is very weird, you guys. like yes being able to swear is fun and being gross is great, but there's this certain type of sincerity/sweetness/hopefulness that i can fill my kids books with that just doesn't fit here, I'm having to find ways to slip hope in like veggies in spaghetti

Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. - Mary Oliver

writing is going so well today, the loveliest feeling 🥰

Her breast is fit pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thrones But I had not a crest. Her heart is fit for home - I - a Sparrow - build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest.

📣 We’re open for submissions! 📚 We are looking for the best Irish books for young readers everywhere. You don’t need an agent. You don’t need to have published before. Please do read our submission guidelines: www.littleisland.ie/pages/gettin...

realising I LIVE for giving feedback and helping other writers, how do i do this more i need to do this more i love it so much

I write a newsletter - recommending three things - once a week. And people read it. You might like it too: mailchi.mp/stevens/the-...

Love always, and ever, and true!

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K. Le Guin

good morning! please follow my Emily Dickinson account! @dickinsondaily.bsky.social 🕊️

a little bit of snow! a little bit of snow!! a little bit of snow!!!

Today is far from childhood But up and down the hills I held her hand the tighter, Which shortened all the miles.

Beauty crowds me till I die — Beauty, mercy have on me! But if I expire today, Let it be in sight of thee.

I've made an Emily Dickinson page to share quotes and poems! @dickinsondaily.bsky.social 🌋🍂🧡

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

"If you were here, and Oh that you were, my Susie, we need not talk at all, our eyes would whisper for us, and your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language"

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

Thinking about doing something a little different (for me) next year... not tracking my reading at all. No keeping count, no ratings, no storygraph, no goals, nothing but reading...

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

I have a new post up on substack ☺️ it's about a poetry retreat i went to recently, a gorgeous experience, somehow both soothing and invigorating 🍂 meggrehan.substack.com/p/passing-th...

Hello! @megcathwrites.bsky.social and I have been making a cozy writing chat podcast called Four Seasons Writers Retreat and the final episode of our Autumn volume has just dropped! We talk writing rules, instincts, time, and much more, and we hope you’ll listen in 🐌 🎙️: linktr.ee/fourseasonsw...

"She loves you like pausing to move a snail somewhere safer in the rain" - Jack Underwood

We’re raising money for UNICEF’s Gaza appeal. All books on littleisland.ie are discounted and all profits* go to helping children caught in the conflict. 25% off 2023’s books 50% off all other books Free shipping on orders over €25 *Profits = what’s left after printing costs and author royalties

- Mary Oliver ❤️