Day 8 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with a one word title My picks for today are - Foster by Claire Keegan & Shorelines by Ruth Ennis What's your one and only pick for today's #RIWC26 prompt? #onewordtitle #ReadIrishWomen

Day 8 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with a one word title. @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines, we chose - Charlotte by Martina Devlin Resonance by Celine Kiernan Songlight by Moira Buffini Service by Sarah Gilmartin Hekate by Nikita Gill Poor by Katriona O'Sullivan Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Day 8 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with a one word title. What's your one and only pick for today's #RIWC26 prompt? #onewordtitle #ReadIrishWomen

Day 8 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with a one word title.
@dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines, we chose the titles in the second picture (list in alt text)

My picks for today are

Foster by Claire Keegan
&
Shorelines by Ruth Ennis

What's your one and only pick for today's #RIWC26 prompt?

We even have #Poetry for the YA audiences with this novel in verse, Shorelines from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Booth 1530 #PLA2026

www.readingzone.com/books/shorel...

Day 3 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 is A book about renewal or transformation The booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines chose - Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise Little Passenger by Deirdre Sullivan & Jessica Love Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh Still by Julia Kelly Shorelines by Ruth Ennis The New Girl by Sinéad Moriarty Nesting by Róisín O'Donnell Foster by Claire Keegan Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan What books would you choose? #RIWC26 #transformation #renewal

Day 3 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 is A book about renewal or transformation My two choices are - Little Passenger by Deirdre Sullivan & Jessica Love & The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell What books would you choose? #RIWC26 #transformation #renewal

Day 3 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 is A book about renewal or transformation What books would you choose? #RIWC26 #transformation #renewal

Day 3 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 is

A book about renewal or transformation

The booksellers @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines chose the titles in the first picture; I chose the two in the second.

What books would you choose?

#RIWC26 #transformation #renewal

Taste the rainbow? 🌈

New @booksireland.bsky.social article! Today's piece is Love, Loss, and Legacy: Books About Grief for Children

In it I'm yapping about

🥧 Pie in the Sky

💌 If You Read This

🌌 The Space We're In by Katya Balen

A bunch of really special books, really. Read the full article below

🖤🖤🖤

Graphic Novels for Teenagers - Books Ireland Ruth Ennis chooses graphic novels for teenagers.

You can read the full reviews here

booksirelandmagazine.com/graphic-nove...

New @booksireland.bsky.social article: graphic novels for teenagers!

Graphic novels are super cool and I wish I read them more as a teenager so I'm catching up now with these excellent titles:

🪰 Lord of the Flies

🦪 Pearl

🌌 Galaxy: The Prettiest Star

✨️ When Stars Are Scattered

Closing today!

Closing tomorrow! Be sure to get your teen creatives to submit before the deadline!

Shares much appreciated ✍️

(P.S.: we're especially looking for more artwork!)

Read the guidelines and submit here: forms.gle/GctVXb7Ldpwo...

Final call, be sure to have your creative teens submit to our journal by THIS MONDAY!

Guidelines are in the form link below but any questions just shout!

forms.gle/GctVXb7Ldpwo...

Absolutely! Here are some of my favourite Irish picturebooks!

Ireland has such a gorgeous community of writers and illustrators of children's and YA books. Ask for a book below and I'll share some of the best that Ireland's kidlit and YA community has to offer!

#StPatricksDay

The answer is just seagulls

There really is a book for every occasion

@alanorourke.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

No better time to submit than over the bank holiday weekend! Be sure to share this with the creative teen in your life!

Submit here: forms.gle/GctVXb7Ldpwo...

#SpeirGorm

I got so lucky with the cover, made by Andrea Calisi!

I'll be honest I kinda love having a bunch of copies of Shorelines to do a wee photo shoot with 🌊

It's excellent! I saw her on a panel at ILFD last year and the care that's gone into the book is unreal!

Anything in particular you have your eye on to read?

Lord of the Flies and Going to Plan is all! Eager to read Ghostlines soon tho. You?

The submissions are already rolling in! Be sure to have the creative teen in your life submit their writing and art to the link below before the deadline on March 23rd!

Shares appreciated, I want to reach young creatives all over Ireland!

forms.gle/GctVXb7Ldpwo...

Aye some books are made to be read and re-read time and time again

Love this book!

Oh excellent! I love maths that works like that! (Ty 🖤)

Is it cringe to recommend my own book? Absolutely.

Will I still do it? Yeah.

Teens can submit their work here: forms.gle/GctVXb7Ldpwo...

Good luck!

We accept the following work:

▪️Artwork (digital or traditional)
▪️Photography
▪️Short stories (max. 2000 words)
▪️Non-fiction essays (max. 2000 words)
▪️Poetry (no word limit)

There is so specific theme and work can be on any topic.

Submissions close at midnight on Monday 23rd March

📢 Open to submissions! 📢

Do you know a teenager aged 12-18 years old? Do you love writing and making art? Then we want to hear from you!

The Booked Up Literary Journal is a small, print publication for writers and artists aged 12-18 years old anywhere on the island of Ireland.

Singing for Mrs Pettigrew by Michael Morpurgo was the first time I felt very grown up as a reader, I recommend it to all budding writings 📚

Happy #WorldBookDay!!

To mark the day, I'm giving personalised book recommendations for the young readers in your life. Just tell me their age (0-18 years) and about their interests and I'll share some books I think they'll love 📚