Do you know a young reader (16-24) who could help us select the next Laureate na nÓg? Applications close next Friday - we'd particularly love to hear from young people from underrepresented backgrounds or communities. More information + application form childrenslaureate.ie/young-reader...

"Irish creatives are in the limelight and rightly being celebrated. But children’s authors and illustrators in Ireland too often fly under the radar." Support Irish authors and illustrators writing for young people! ✍️Article by our CEO Elaina Ryan www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

✒️🎓 Arts Council writer-in-residence roles 2026 open for applications: artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

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Lucy Caldwell on the challenges & pleasures of short fiction: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

It's CBI Conference week! 🎉📖

Brilliant interview here - on illness, writing, publishing, mental health as structural problem, & women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

✒️ Short story workshop this Friday eve (19th Sept) as part of the Knocklyon Literary Festival - www.eventbrite.ie/e/writing-sh...

Fun, productive generative writing workshop kicking off in Oct (Zoom, Wed evenings) with the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social! For anyone who might be in need of a creative boost/nudge etc. 🖋️🎉 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/jump...

Having thoughts about YA fiction in the papers again... www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

FYI, 13-22-year-olds in Ireland: www.youth.ie/articles/hav...

Looking forward to Write By The Sea in Sept! writebythesea.ie

Feedback & guidance on your opening pages, synopsis & cover/query letter - for anyone getting a manuscript ready to go. (Online, mid-Sept on) ✒️ www.clairehennessy.com/store/p/nove...

If anyone is organised enough to be thinking about October/November evenings... @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/jump...

Every creative writing workshop is a bit magical in its own way, but I am particularly fond of the thrill that comes when people writing for children or teenagers are in a space where their creative work is taken seriously. Really looking forward to this! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Latest YA reviews for the Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Open for booking now... Writing Children's and YA Fiction / 6 weeks / Tues evenings from Sept 23rd / Zoom / @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✒️🎉 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books. - Maeve Binchy - Marian Keyes - Emma Donoghue - Tom Perrotta - David Lodge - Anne Enright - Meg Wolitzer - Megan Abbott - Patricia Highsmith - Roald Dahl #AmReading #GreatAuthors #BookSky

For those of you who might have an interest, I'm back at the Irish Writers Centre this September facilitating my Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy course. Please feel free to like and share. Details here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ... #writing #sciencefiction #fantasy #irishwriterscentre

Outlining Your Novel | Zoom | next Sat (2nd Aug) www.clairehennessy.com/store/p/outl...

We love Eat The Ones You Love, the "compelling, gorily gorgeous novel" by Sarah Maria Griffin. @griffski.bsky.social's event at WCLF last week was a bit hit with everyone who was in the audience

Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks.bsky.social is a writer, editor & creative writing facilitator from Dublin. Best known as an author & reviewer of young adult fiction, she has also published short fiction & poetry in various anthologies & literary journals, incl The Moth, The Lonely Crowd, ROPES,

Why is the turkey puppet the best candidate so far, lads. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Is it time for this again? (image not my original, from somewhere-on-the-internet many years ago!)

The female gaze is a damp wet rat of a man who looks haunted by a ghost of sadness. Preferably he is literally wet, eg.

Gathering up bookish links and bits here. clairehennessy.substack.com/p/notes-from...

Reviewed a creepy plant book for the IT. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Love this. www.thebookseller.com/comment/up-c...

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

Today! 🎉🎉🎉 www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...

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! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Someone needs to start a literary prize for short story collections. It seems really odd to me that we don’t have one in Ireland or the UK. Before everyone shouts about the Edgehill Prize, it doesn’t seem to be happening this year.

Books to add to the summer TBR piles.... www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Friday reading: poems from Alice Kinsella's new collection. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

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Submissions are now OPEN for the 2025 @anpostofficial Irish Book Awards! 📚✨ Celebrating the best in Irish literature and now in our twentieth year, we would love to see a record number of submissions in this special year for the Awards. Find out more: irishbookawards.ie/submissions/

Next week! 🎉🎉🎉 www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...

Irish artist types! The NCFA have a template for contacting your TDs about extending BIA: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

✒️ Where are the cool kids sending their poems these days? And the not-so-cool ones, where do they go?

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Tryin' to look... something. www.facebook.com/100064605732...

🎟️ General sale tickets now available 🎟️ Join us for a weekend of joyful Resistance at the Children’s Books Ireland International Conference 2025. 🗓️20th & 21st September 📍Light House Cinema 🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/childrens-... #CBIConf25