@jenwallacecreates.bsky.social
Writer, children's author, facilitator, nature guide. Dinosaur Pie for age 6+ out now from Little Island Books. She/her (mostly) AuDHD
Ooh for anyone wanting to buy Wired Our Way, here's a hige discount code to buy it today 🎉
22.05.2025 09:41 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Wired Our Own Way, Saturday 24th May at 16:00 at International literature festival Dublin
I'll be chatting on this panel about curating Wired Our Own Way (a book of #Autistic #Essays published by @newislandbooks.bsky.social ) this Saturday @ilfdublin.bsky.social with @jenwallacecreates.bsky.social @chandrikanm.bsky.social and @aislingwalsh.bsky.social
21.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
But my favourite Paul Durcan poem is 'On Giving a Poetry Recital to an Empty Hall'
Thanks to @cormackinsella.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention a few years ago.
Book covers - May new titles for age 3/4+
Book covers - Irish children's books for age 8+ out in May.
Some amazing new Irish children's books out in May for all ages.
Thanks to @bexsheridan.bsky.social for creating the @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social posters.
Please do share this post and let everyone know about these brilliant new books. Together let's help children #discoveririshkidsbooks
So glad you enjoyed it!
02.05.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Time to share this starter pack again - and ask who I've missed! Are you an Irish or Irish-based children's YA writer? Give me a shout, then go follow @childrensbooksireland.ie 😄
go.bsky.app/2gSbStb
A collection of coloured squares on a white background. The largest square is pink and has 'Discover Irish Children's Books Symposium Saturday 21 June 2025' written on it. On a blue square to the right of this is written 'Supported by DCU'. To the left is the round logo of Discover Irish Children's Books.
Saturday June 21st is the inaugural Discover Children's Books Symposium, a collaboration between @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social and @dculibrary.bsky.social. If you're a kidlit fan, come join us!
More info and tix:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/discover-i...
List of Bestsellers paperback non-fiction: 1. Busy and Wrecked, Dermot Whelan 2. A Time for atruth- Sarah Corbett Lynch 3. Careless People- Sarah Wynn Williams 4. Wired Our Own Way- Niamh Garvey 5. Poor- Katriona O Sullivan
Wired Our Own; An Anthology of Autistic Irish Voices is number 4 in this weeks non-fiction #Bestsellers 🎉
Published by @newislandbooks.bsky.social
Gobsmacked to be a winner with @jenwallacecreates.bsky.social (for her hilarious book Dinosaur Pie) of the Junior Great Reads Award from the Library Association of Ireland ( School Libraries Group).
Congrats to @meabhmcdonnell.bsky.social for winning the senior category for Into the Witchwood.
Wow, another lovely evening in the books celebrating the launch of Wired Our Own Way📚❤
Thanks to everyone at Dubray Books in Cork!
And special shout out to our wonderful contributors @jenwallacecreates.bsky.social, @mikemcgb.bsky.social and Róisín Riley for reading✒
Very glad that I partook in preparing for media sessions with both @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @childrensbooksireland.ie in the last few months, as I got asked to do an interview today on @todayfm.bsky.social regarding my autistic anthology @newislandbooks.bsky.social. Will be on at 17:45ish😊
01.04.2025 14:07 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of audible file of Wired Our Own Way
#Audiobook of Wired Our Own Way; An Anthology of #Autistic Irish Voices released today 🎉 On Audible, Spotify and more.
01.04.2025 10:11 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0The Backwards Day Paradox
07.02.2025 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This. Yes.
31.01.2025 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!
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