Claire Hennessy
Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025).
Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/
Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/
Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
@sheenawriter.bsky.social
Award-winning author of novels for children and adults. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, writing tutor, bookworm, animal lover. First Term at Fernside out now from O'Brien Press.
@urchinette.bsky.social
Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is coming in June 2025. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social
Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
@sarramanning.bsky.social
Reader, writer, chopped liver Literary Editor for Red Magazine Representation: Rebecca Ritchie at A.M.Heath Ltd
@ciaranon.bsky.social
Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies.
@elainaryan.bsky.social
CEO of Children's Books Ireland. Co-artistic director of Towers and Tales Children's Book Festival. I swear I like things that aren't children's books too...
@joannanadin.bsky.social
Professor of writing books, Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl. Autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin
@elencaldecott.bsky.social
I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
@nigellicus.bsky.social
Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency.
@wcorklitfest.bsky.social
#Bantry: 11-18 July 2025. Check out our line-up & download brochure. Booking open for all events https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
THE BENEFACTORS (novel) coming JUNE 25, Sceptre. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
@fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social
Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him
@ninadouglas.bsky.social
Professional cheerleader; books publicist, consultant (children’s, YA, crossover, charity and arts), reader, writer, story-obsessed. (NDPR, The Pocket Publicist)
@evemcdonnell.bsky.social
Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020), THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰 (2022), THE LAST BOY 🧹 (2024)
@foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
@rowancoleman.bsky.social
Sunday Times and NYT best selling novelist and screenwriter. FROM UNTIL FOREVER (UK) coming 3/7/25 Also Stella Hayward THE GOOD BOY coming 8/7/25 (US) Loves Brontes. Loves Horror. Loves dogs. #ADHD #Dyslexic she/her. Supports 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️rights. Fan of equality.
@clarefurniss.bsky.social
Author. THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND out now: ‘Compulsive, poignant YA dystopia’ Guardian, ‘An exquisite, devastating read’ Irish Times. RLF Writing Fellow. Agent: Catherine Clarke, FBA www.clarefurniss.com
@garrettcarr.bsky.social
My novel The Boy From the Sea is out now with Picador. The Rule of the Land was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. I teach in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's, Belfast. www.garrettcarr.net
@saramegan.bsky.social
(It rhymes with Cara.) Writes books. Likes sunflowers. Thinks too much. sarabarnardofficial.com
@susancahill.bsky.social
🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now! 🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025 🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
@ciarantre.bsky.social
Researcher, writer and teacher of contemporary literature and culture. Co-host @lotsplanetspod.bsky.social He/him.
@oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI data scraping. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
@hannahlitagent.bsky.social
Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooks. Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms https://linktr.ee/hannah_litagent
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
@meabhmcdonnell.bsky.social
Author of Into the Witchwood with The O’Brien Press and and children’s book manager at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway!
@amylouioc.bsky.social
Irish illustrator & film programmer making pretty drawings and working for film festivals 🎨🎬 🎬 Kerry International Film Festival, Animation Dingle 📚 Picturebook A CORK FAIRYTALE out now! 💌 [email protected] https://linktr.ee/amylouioc
@kierancrowley.bsky.social
Children's Writer from Ireland. The Santa List; The Misfits Club; The Mighty Dynamo.
@eibhliscarcione.bsky.social
Poet ❤️Gaeilge. Children's writer. Teacher. THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE. BLACK GABLES. WELCOME TO DEAD TOWN RAVEN MCKAY Rep'd by Silvia Molteni PFD eibhliscarcione.com Cork, Ireland
@cethanleahy.com
Writer of YA novel Tuesdays are Just as Bad, author of Fiction Express books, poster of Spooky Shopkeepers
@booksireland.bsky.social
Established 1976. Reviews, news, features on Irish books and writing, database of all upcoming books each month. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor Ruth McKee.
@alnolan.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, designer. Any opinions probably somebody else’s. http://obrien.ie/alan-nolan http://alannolan.ie
@sheenadempsey.bsky.social
Children's books, illustrations, comics. Pablo and Splash Books 1 and 2 out now (Bloomsbury) Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney sheenadempsey.com
@alisonweatherby.bsky.social
Author of THE SECRETS ACT, Chicken House, 2022. Shortlisted for Young Quills Award 2023. Rep by PFD.
@amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social
Powered mostly by coffee and vibes. Chronically ill (M.E), bisexual writer. What Walks These Halls and Who Watches This Place are out now with The O’Brien Press, PSI Investigations book 3 coming 2025 👻 🏳️🌈
@kmoranwrites.bsky.social
✍🏻 Writer and teacher 📚’The Doomsday Club’ out now 📚’The Doomsday Club 2’ 2026 📍Mayoman in Dublin https://linktr.ee/kmoranwrites
@dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social
Poet. Book: Nightlight (@salmonpoetry 2023). New: I Was a Teenage Exorcist (Chaps, 2024). Next: Masters (@TheEmmaPress, 2025), Real Estate (Salmon, 2026) 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/markwardpoet
@debbieohi.com
Author, illustrator. 🇨🇦 #CanKidLit. Comics, board games. Illus in books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. I Want To Read ALL The Books. Alt-text fan. I'M BUSY launches 2026/02/24. https://debbieohi.com/ What I'm working on: @work.debbieohi.com
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
@donna1.bsky.social
Book lover, editor, feminist. Formerly longest serving publisher of the Virago Modern Classics 📚 Currently reading 'A Memoir of My Former Self' by Hilary Mantel; 'War & Peace' by Tolstoy; 'Tolstoy Together' by Yiyun Li; 'Deacon King King' by James McBride
@cristinleach.bsky.social
Irish Writer. Art Critic. Bestselling divorce/art memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE. ‘She is uncommonly good at writing about being embodied’ - Irish Times. RHA book, FROM TEN TILL DUSK. 20yrs in The Sunday Times. Winter Papers. RTÉ. 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
@clarakiyoko.bsky.social
From Ireland, Japan and Canada Author of CATFISH ROLLING🌊 SONGS FOR GHOSTS out 2025 👻 Writer and reader she/her
@karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social
Writer | Broadcaster | Bookish | West of Ireland This Little World, pub. Doire Press | Irish Poem of the Year 2021 shortlist | artscouncil.ie award | karenjmcdonnell.com
@bookaneer808.bsky.social
Avid reader, bookseller, likes birds & puns. She/her Creator of annual #ReadIrishWomenChallenge - runs every April https://www.instagram.com/bookaneer808/profilecard/?igsh=NjMxM3A3dWxnNmJ0 CR 📖 Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin 🪴
@callytaylor.bsky.social
British crime author. Sunday Times bestseller. Richard & Judy pick. Mum, dog owner, knitter, crocheter, maker, watches a lot of TV.
@jackielynam.bsky.social
Dublin writer and librarian. Traces: Poems and Essays published 2023. Longlisted for Carousel Aware Prize for Indie Authors 2024. Arts Council Agility Award recipient 2024. https://linktr.ee/JackieLynam
@ashilockiewrites.bsky.social
Writer-y Book Nerd | BIG BAD ME - OUT NOW from Little Island Books 🧛♂️🐺 (she/her) 💖💜💙 | Rep: Amber Caraveo #teamskylark