Aisha Bushby was born in the Middle East and has lived in Kuwait, England and Canada. Her short story, Marionette Girl, was featured in the Stripes award-winning anthology, A Change...

We writers are ever curious about other writers’ habits, histories, fears and hopes. Always looking for nuggets of gold, or possibly the ‘method,’ the mystical ‘way of the writer.’ The...

The journey from a thing you’re making to a thing that you have made is not a straight line. And even when you reach a milestone- having your work be...

My writing career so far has been painted in primary colours: think bears in bow-ties on their first day of school, roaring dragons, fairytale witches, super-sorting robots and ever-so-fancy fairy...

Joseph Coelho (author) No Longer Alone is my third picture book to be published but behind it lies a plethora of picture book manuscripts that have never and will never...

Neil Gaiman once said that he approached the business of becoming a writer like an explorer working his way towards a distant mountain. Sometimes that mountain appeared close, sometimes it...

In the final interview from our series on Irish debut children’s authors, Olivia Hope of our Down the Rabbit Hole blog talks to Meg Grehan. The 27-year-old writer is originally from Louth and...

In the spring of 2017, after the publication of Mafiosa, the final book in my Young Adult trilogy, I found myself floating between projects, uncomfortably idle and unsure of what...

In a second interview from our series on Irish debut children’s authors, Olivia Hope of our Down the Rabbit Hole blog talks to Sinéad O’Hart. Sinéad lives in Meath with...

In the first of a series of interviews with Irish debut children’s authors, Olivia Hope of our Down the Rabbit Hole blog talks about first-time experiences of being a published...