@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
I am going to be helping the wonderful Rebecca Schiller run the Mothers Who Write community
It’s a community for writers who happen to be mothers and trans/non-binary parents full of the best people. An alternative to the old boys' network
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I am beside myself that The World Between the Rain has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing @carnegiemedals.bsky.social. This one is special because it's nominated by librarians - always my favourite people @cilip.bsky.social
#carnegies2026
@everywithwords.bsky.social
There'll be a new Storyshaped episode tomorrow, but while you wait: have you listened to @mariesadulak.bsky.social yet? She chatted to us last week, and it was fab! Make sure to like and subscribe, so you don't miss an episode. Let's get Storyshaped!
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It is my birthday this week so I am eating cake for lunch every day
22.04.2025 12:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This week's Storyshaped was a magical, mystical, mysterious, and marvellous chat with Ellen Ryan, Queen of Irish Mythology. @susancahill.bsky.social and I fell under her spell - perhaps you will, too! Check it out wherever you get your podcasts, or at the link below:
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Fellow children's authors and illustrators: if you want to counterbalance JKR funding hatred against trans people, this org needs money. #KidLitUK
17.04.2025 06:20 — 👍 65 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 0
I'll be at @ilfdublin.bsky.social this May!
16th May I'll be talking about finding inspiration in myth, folklore, West Cork, and rain
17th May myself and @sineadohart.bsky.social are doing a LIVE Storyshaped podcast with @kieranlarwood.bsky.social
Booking links here: linktr.ee/susancahillw...
This is a great idea @louiestowell.bsky.social. I think we should def include this as one of our standard questions @sineadohart.bsky.social
What happens if you’re both though? Are you forced to wander alone at the edges of the world?
Oh thank you so much! So glad you both enjoyed it 💙
31.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me and @susancahill.bsky.social did another podcast this week - and we spoke to the fantastic @alastairc.com all about his Storyshaped life, his own work, and his work yet to come. Have a listen! It's a good 'un.
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This sounds cool!
27.03.2025 11:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICYMI yesterday, what with one thing and another, we interviewed the amazing @celinekiernan.bsky.social on Storyshaped Podcast! @susancahill.bsky.social and myself were made up with glee, so we were.
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts!
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We had a fantastic time interviewing @susancahill.bsky.social for our student #library podcast!
Listen here!
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Go on a journey of emotional discovery with @susancahill.bsky.social's magical portal story, The World Between the Rain. This PDF from @booksuperhero2.bsky.social contains lots of teaching ideas around the book for UKS2
10.03.2025 20:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Would love to chat kids books as always!
05.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0So chuffed to have won this lovely award! I visited these students recently and they were so creative and engaged so I’m really delighted to have their seal of approval 💙🩵💙
05.03.2025 08:00 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This gorgeous review is making me cry! 🌦️
23.02.2025 21:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How do I sum this one up? A fairytale on speed! A story of daring originality confidently controlled and peppered with rich and unexpected images, and a touch of ‘Stranger Things’. You’re left with a useful reminder of the benefits of a jolly good cry. @susancahill.bsky.social
23.02.2025 19:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Otherworldly,mesmerising, intense.Epic!Loved reading the waves of this story,diving to & from its heartbreak of a core. There sure are fragments of gods in that rain as this is another irish book I've read recently to be so magically inspired!🌊💙📚 @susancahill.bsky.social #KidLit #ReadingForPleasure
22.02.2025 10:11 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Oh thank you for this lovely review! ❤️🌧️🌦️
22.02.2025 21:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh yay! Delighted you’re enjoying it. Watch out for those raindrops!
18.02.2025 18:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hiya! I’m rarely on Facebook but I just replied. I’m going to be in Ireland on those dates 😭
16.02.2025 20:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love to hear about a new children's books podcast! Can't wait to listen 📚❤️
13.02.2025 18:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations to the wonderful @racheldelahaye.bsky.social's brilliant book! So well deserved!
13.02.2025 18:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Love that @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social's first novel in translation is from Irish to English!
13.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So enjoyed this wonderful chat with @peterbunzl.bsky.social
Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
DELIGHTED to sign the David Bowie poster!
12.02.2025 19:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It was such a pleasure and a privilege to chat to Y7 and Y8 in Glenthorne High School today and to meet the wonderful @lucasjmaxwell.bsky.social in person! Thank you for inviting me ❤️
12.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Who would @sharadakeats.bsky.social invite to a literary dinner party? And how do we get to her tropical island?
All these answers and more in the latest episode of Storyshaped!
Available wherever you get your podcasts
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New Storyshaped episdoe!
This week, myself and @sineadohart.bsky.social sit down with debut YA author Sharada Keats @sharadakeats.bsky.social for a fun and illuminating chat!
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3m83...
Or wherever you get your podcasts!
