We’re down at the Literacy Association of Ireland conference in DCU: come say hello! #LAICon25

We need your votes! We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social! Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

We are BEYOND delighted to have two nominations for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing! A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO! Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien! @kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026

No compliment has meant more than an elementary school kid saying 日本語じょうず！！

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year. Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

She's still in Israeli captivity #Speirgorm

why did I just get an ad for a supplement to help with low T. excise me. buddy I pay top dollar explicitly to have average levels of T.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

8 consecutive days of workshops and residency and book promo 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 which, if you were wondering, is 56 days in autism time

Sumud boats currently being intercepted by Israel, likely to illegally abduct and imprison those inside. I’m on one of the Thousand Madleens boats just behind. We need escalation from home to end the impunity with which this rogue state commits genocide and stifles opposition

@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and Poetry Ireland celebrate Black History Month 2025! 📆 24th October 🕰️ 6:30pm 📍 Irish Writers Centre 🎟️ €5 Book here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/bla...

No worries if not. Lots of worries if.

New Quarterly Q&A was sent out on Buttondown this week!! Check out my newsletter archive here! #writing buttondown.com/kelmenton/ar...

Also a Top 10 SF/Fantasy Books for Youth from Booklist Reader (a magazine from the American Library Association)! 👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉

The thing that is so insane about this is, these books are entirely unpolitical in content. They’re just about a little black girl doing things like going to the library or visiting a beekeeper and learning about bees. Swap it for a white face and nobody could come up with a reason to ban them.

Signed some copies of A Fix of Light in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social & was so happy to see it was a staff recommendation!!!! (Whoever you are, Joanne, you’re a legend!!) 🦊✨🫶🏻🌻

thank you to whoever said I should do stand up comedy. unfortunately 98% of my jokes are on-the-spot bits fuelled by nerves x

Anna’s Lola books listed as “banned in classrooms” in one US county – purely because they feature a black character

Home from my #CultureNight event with Dubray Cork’s Book Club & listening to my brother killing it on 2FM live from Sligo (yup Cliffords!!!) because we are artsy siblings with big dreams <3

TONIGHT!!!!!! 🦊✨💜😎

Super humbled and delighted that A Fix of Light was included in the Best Irish Books of 2025 by CBI!! 🦊💕

This statement on Palestine authored by Chris Haughton and Joseph Nhan-O'Reilly is still open to signatures from children's authors, illustrators and educators. You can sign at statement-on-palestine.org

guys send your best vibes and wishes please I have had a BAD TRAVEL DAY which is my autism kryptonite

📌 CORK If kids lit is more your wheelhouse: think Kel! They'll be in Dubray for chats about their debut, A Fix of Light: bsky.app/profile/kelm...

CORK FOLKS!! What are you up to this Culture Night? ✨ I’ll be at @dubraybooks.bsky.social Cork’s Book Club!! Come along for A Fix of Light chats, a free sticker, and even…a giveaway? 😳 #OícheDárSaol #CultureNight #SpéirGorm

my heart is full of love! that is my rebellion! i will love harder than anyone can hate!!!! love is a verb and i will do it every day!!!!!

a happy cat for ur feed, my liege

I don’t want to do admin I want to live in my silly little worlds and make my characters KISS. and suffer. a bit. you understand.

Watching Supernatural together with your partner for the first time is a truly significant and sacred milestone.

It's a tough time to be an artist or creative, and it's especially tough if you're doing that on a freelance or independent basis. Sharing someone's posts, leaving a positive review, or recommending them to a friend are 3 easy ways you can help. And they're all free!!

"What do you mean, progress? ... I think we sort of assumed that it means progress towards something better, higher, nobler, more generous, more free. I don't know. But you can progress towards evil." -- Ursula K. LeGuin October 13, 2015

I hope you enjoy! Thank you so much for supporting the fundraiser 🫶🏻🇵🇸

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation There is a Government survey currently open for submissions, available here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... Please share it with your networks, friends and family to gather as much support for the Basic Income successor scheme as possible!

📕 Redefining Love—Ruth Ennis chooses Irish YA fiction 📕 @childrensbooksireland.ie @rurooie.bsky.social @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/redefining-l...

if you ever want to know what it’s like being autistic, here is something i experienced this morning: me: hello! i would like to buy some envelopes :) post office: we dont sell those :)

Culture Night takes place all over Ireland Friday 19 Sept and @artscouncilireland.bsky.social has announced 30 Irish books (ages 12+) that they will distribute free of charge around the country in partnership w/ Jigsaw National Centre for Youth Mental Health #ReadMór artscouncil.ie/news/read-mo...

A FIX OF LIGHT is one of 30 titles being gifted as part of #ReadMór for @culturenightdub.bsky.social ✨😎🫶🏻💕🦊✨ @artscouncilireland.bsky.social is partnering with @jigsawymh.bsky.social to celebrate the benefits of reading for mental health & wellbeing 🌻 📸: Marc O’Sullivan

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When the government wants to make sure a consultation sinks without trace, they often schedule it in the empty Oireachtas holiday weeks in August and at Christmas. Closing date here is 31 August, so get your say in. gcn.ie/hse-call-for...

So, I mean. €8K? We have, collectively, raised EIGHT THOUSAND EURO for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social! How brilliant is that? The fundraiser is open until noon on Sunday 17th; you can donate directly, or purchase something from our menu of bookish treats. And, wow. Thank you all! @rurooie.bsky.social

This fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians by the Irish children's books crowd is running until the 17th. It's been a runaway success and a lot of the mentoring, kids' sessions and books have been snapped up (including mine), but there's still some left. www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...

Quick! Last couple of signed copies of @kelmenton.bsky.social's YA novel, A Fix of Light, and/or a Query Letter Critique with Kel, up for grabs on www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine. Just donate to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social and one or both or all could be YOURS! @rurooie.bsky.social

Irish artists/ supporters of the arts, please check out and fill in this short survey. The Gript/ far right dudes are already sharing it on X and I'd be worried it'll get brigaded. If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.

Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts. The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts 🔗 ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j... / email [email protected] link with your local constituency

Hey, I don't know if it'll have an effect, but if you, YOU, are interested in the continuation and expansion of the BIA, there's a public survey available to gather opinions. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Please join us for a #IrishKidLitforPalestine Live Online Picture Book Masterclass with @chrishaughton.bsky.social Paddy Donnelly @pforde123.bsky.social & @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social Tues 2 Sept 2025 6.30pm - 8.00pm Tickets: www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit... Please share and please support.

Yee have done it again! Thank you so much to everyone who keeps donating to the campaign. It's been a whole week now, we're at the halfway mark. www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit... @sineadohart.bsky.social

It's huge for authors, especially debut authors, to withdraw from a prize that could have a significant, positive impact on their career. Please, support them as best you can: buy the books, borrow them from libraries, listen to the audiobooks, amplify their voices, let them know they're appreciated