Lovely to see Black Gables in this spooktacular book display @gutterbookshop.bsky.social 🖤👻🍁🍂 #BlackGables

#Irishwoman'sDiary If a visiting monkey has a place in the streetscape in Clonakilty, Mary Jane Irwin, poet, activist, mother of 13 and wife of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa certainly deserves one too. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

I had the absolute privilege to write an article for @booktrust.org.uk about how to get (and keep) boys reading. A subject I feel very strongly about. Have a read if you'd like: www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi...

New book display for students to see when they enter the library.

Delighted my dark summer tale The Summer Visitor is featured in today’s Irish Examiner as part of its summer-themed writing series. ✍️🌞🖤 www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

I know I'm banging on. But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books. From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin. As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.' www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Maurice Sendak from Stephen King’s retelling of Hansel and Gretel, woven around Sendak’s set & costume drawings for a staging of Humperdinck‘s opera. This shows the menace in the gingerbread house. Hodder 1 Sept. @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @mauricesendak.bsky.social

Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today

Proof copy arrived in the post and I’m so excited that I ignored my inner cringe and recorded a video! It’s really happening. Proper dream come true stuff going on here. Wild! Thank you so much @rocktheboatnews @oneworldpublications Cover art: @adamscarvalho

Almost September, time to publish reading lists, revise course handbooks & prep for another year of teaching. Resharing a starter pack of lit mags (poetry & prose) that I put together for my creative writing students-do suggest any I’ve missed… #creativewriting #academicsky go.bsky.app/9rdD4Yp

Short story "Blood Bound" by Jayson Carcione “Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken." www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/bloo...

Less than 2 weeks to submit your entry for the Fool for Poetry international Chapbook Competition. All details on how to enter: www.munsterlit.ie #poetry #writing #chapbookcompetition

H.P. Lovecraft — the writer who practically invented cosmic horror — was born today (Aug 20) in Providence, Rhode Island, 1890. This life-sized bronze statue, by local artist Gage Prentiss c2019 & commissioned by fans, stands in his studio, awaiting a permanent home. #HPLovecraft

Special book post! Delighted to have new children’s poems in this wonderful Northern Gravy Anthology!📚✍️✨ northerngravy.com/product/chil...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Adam Ming, based in Kuala Lumpur, from A First Book of Bugs, which includes 30 poems by Simon Mole. Informative and characterful images delighting in the detail of slugs, spiders, flies and butterflies. Walker Books 14 Aug @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @adamming.bsky.social

COVER REVEAL My YA debut The Last Death Poet will be published by @rocktheboatnews.bsky.social in April 2026. Thank you Adams Carvalho for this stunning cover, I love it.

I'm blown away by this lovely review of The Invisibles at Just Imagine! Thank you so much, Melanie Lyne - it's made my day! justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Illustrations by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson, created for a 1959 release of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' #womensart

Giada & Sanjay, nerosunero, Dublin 2020 Kim (Walled Garden), nerosunero, Dublin 2025 #Dublin #Portraits #Painting #Drawing #DigitalPainting #Illustration #Art & #Fiction www.nerosunero.org & www.nerosunero.art

All at #BfK are sad to learn of the dealth of Allan Ahlberg. With his wife Janet & with other leading illustrators, Allan Ahlberg created books loved by generations of readers. Everyone will have their favourite. Full obituary to come, meanwhile from our archives: booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/auth...

Thank you so much, Anne Horemans at @booksforkeeps.bsky.social for this brilliant review of The Invisibles. Much appreciated! booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/the-i...

‘Swifts, swallows and Canada geese’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

Indie bookshops! Would you like some signed bookplates and postcards? Please send me a direct message if you are interested. 💚🧚💙 #choosebookshops #childrensbookshop #indiebookshop #thechangelingchild #intothefaeriehill #ukkidlit

happy birthday John Ashbery 🎈

Next #ukteenchat will be tonight- Tues 29th July 8-9pm BST with the fabulous @poppytperry.bsky.social who will be chatting all about her illustrated debut #YA - Dead Reel 🧟‍♂️ It will be here on BlueSky, all welcome to come along and join the chat 🙂 #DeadReel #writerslife #zombies

Well it’s @thebookseller.com official. Delighted to announce that my debut novel The Last Death Poet will be published by the incredible @rocktheboatnews.bsky.social in April 2026. Couldn’t be happier

Stunning story by @gary-grace.bsky.social

Delighted to see my poem Sweetshop on display at the beautiful Blarney sanctuary walk as part of Cork’s Poetry In The Park!📚✍️✨

ICYMI, #BfK273 is out now: interviews, articles & 75 new children's books reviewed inc books by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social @jasbinderbilan.bsky.social @neillcameron.bsky.social @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social. #KidLit #BookSky booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Laura Carlin. An absolute favourite. From The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear who Invented Nonsense written by Wolverton Hill. With incorporation of Lear’s work. Enchanted Lion Books 29 July @enchantedlion.bsky.social @lauracarlin.bsky.social

Some recent gems in Irish and English from my bookshelf! 📚✍️✨ @liamcarson.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @daraghfleming.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social @eabhloid.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

Delighted my dark summer tale The Summer Visitor is featured in today’s Irish Examiner as part of its summer-themed writing series. ✍️🌞🖤 www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

I won't be able to write from the grave so let me tell you what I love: Fanny Howe, from selected poems (2001)

From the book 'Wild Folk', a collaboration of the words of author Jackie Morris and the art of Tamsin Abbott, which comprises of seven richly illustrated fables of transformation and power #WomensArt

So excited to see the cover reveal for HERO THE HIGHWAY GIRL - galloping towards publication on Sept 4!

Sean O’Faolain short story competition open for submissions until the end of July. All information on our website: www.munsterlit.ie #writing #shortstorycompetition

Review of Belfast Twilight by Gabriel Rosenstock

‘The witch’s garden’ (Rapunzel, 1968) Artist: Eric Winter

One week left to enter our competition! www.the4facedliar.com/submissions @irishlittimes.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @writing.ie #writing #writingcommunity

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by skilled watercolourist Michael Foreman. From another Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in the run-up to Alice Day, celebrated in Oxford this year on 5 July @thestorymuseum.bsky.social. Accusatory beaks frame the trial of the Knave of Hearts. Published by Pavilion, 2010.

'A stonkingly brilliant and captivating read, which I read in one sitting.' Wow - thanks so much, Maja! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Excited to have poems in this wonderful anthology. Pre-order link northerngravy.com/product/chil... 📚✍️✨

A wonderful short story "The Last Supper" by Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social. www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...

"In a lot of my work, there’s always a moment where someone says, ‘this wouldn't happen’. Usually those are the moments that actually did happen in my life." NEW #BfK interview @darrenchetty.bsky.social talks to Jason Reynolds @faberbooks.bsky.social booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/twen...

The @literacy-trust.bsky.social annual survey of children’s reading has been published: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

A fitting start to summer. Looking forward to this latest gem from @scratchbooks.bsky.social

Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt

DUBLIN INVITATION TO LAUNCH OF BELFAST TWILIGHT. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! All welcome, spread the word, let me know if you're coming. Cheers, my dears.