Award-Winning Children's Writer and Champion of Children's Books

Children's Programmer at ILFD - International Literature Festival Dublin and Dubray StoryFest

Creative Writing Teacher

Story Captain at Story Crew: Write, Draw, Create!

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Bologna Children's Book Fair 2019 - Notes for Children's Writers and Illustrators
Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Awards 2019
Life as a Professional Children's Writer - the Low Down
The Best Children's Book Agents 2018 - Recommended by their Writers
Raising a Child Who Loves to Read - Recommended Books
How to Pitch to Book Festivals - Practical Tips for Children's Writers
Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Awards 2018
Interview with Children's Writer, Helena Duggan
Books for Christmas 2017
Make Writing Your Priority
Oh, My! This World - CBI Conference 2017
Friendship and Writing Buddies by Judi Curtin
Sharing Books With Little Ones by Sarah Webb
This Writer's Life - Interview with Sadhbh Devlin
It Takes a Library to Raise a Child: My Final dlr Writer in Residence Post

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Spent hours today collecting together craft material for my Shoebox Story workshop @kaleidoscopeireland - it’s mostly recycled material. We will be creating stories in shoeboxes. Inspired by @wherewishescomefrom - thank you Sadhbh! I’d forgotten how much I liked working with boxes!
We had a fab time celebrating children’s creativity at our #cruinniutocreate Young Writers’ Day @dlr.lexicon today!
Marita Conlan-McKenna tells the young writers to follow their dreams @dlr.lexicon
Reading a cracking fantasy adventure at the moment - highly recommended! Thanks to @grainneclear for telling me to read it! Beautifully written and gripping. @conorhackett13
Fascinating talk about Countess Markievicz with Martina Devlin and Andrea Catherwood this evening. @dalkeybookfestival
The @storycrewireland Advanced Writing Club made their own magazine - it’s full of poems, writing tips, illustrations and comic strips. Plus an interview with @theruddlesstravelled They even designed the great Writers’ Block logo. Today is our last meeting of this season and I’ll miss them over the summer - they inspire me! If you have a young writer at home there are a few spaces avail in Sept on a Wed and Thurs aft for age 11+ (Wed) and 8/9+ (Thurs).
The #BlazingaTrail exhibition is in @riverbankartscentreie Newbridge until the end of the month. Delighted to be here today to talk to some local primary schools about the amazing people in the exhibition.
Part 2 of my #dayoff - @thehughlane Gallery - great new exhibition for children (and big kids too!.
Having a day of museums, art and good food in Dublin. Stop 1 @14henriettastreet #dayoff
The wonderful @propermiss at the launch of her new YA novel Perfectly Preventable Deaths this evening @eason_ireland
Over the last few weeks my writing clubs have been working on their own magazines full of stories, poems, writing tips and illustrations. They worked really hard and I’m so proud of them. This season 3 of them also won writing competitions @writersweek @tcdlibrary and @rteguide - they are amazing and inspire me every week. There are a few places available for Sept in the Wed and Thurs clubs. Text 0866086110 for details.
Elizabeth Day talks about her book How to Fail @writersweek - and how crisis and failure can bring growth and new experiences.