Magazine
Children & Young Adult
Jacob’s Ladder by Charlie Pike
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...
Meg Grehan: A Year in the Life of a Debut Author by Olivia Hope
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...
My Journey to The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle
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...
Sinéad O’Hart: A Year in the Life of a Debut Author by Olivia Hope
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...
Pádraig Kenny: A Year in the Life of a Debut Author by Olivia Hope
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...
Class Conscious: Who Do You Think You Are? by Pauline Burgess
Back in the day (the seventies, to be exact) if you said you wanted to grow up to be a writer, your parents and teachers just smiled indulgently and said...
Blazing a Trail by Sarah Webb (Illustrated by Lauren O’Neill)
It all started with my school poetry book, Soundings. Hands up who remembers Soundings? Originally published in 1969 and republished in 2010 with a forward by Joseph O’Connor. In the...
Publishing ‘Dr Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Compendium of Irish Animals’ by Siobhan Parkinson
Little Island is going all adventurous! Little Island has for some years now been publishing mostly paperback novels for children and teenagers by debut and established Irish authors, as well...
Writing Young Adult Horror: Dark Wood Dark Water by Tina Callaghan
When I was a kid, I was allowed to wander through the library by myself. I mostly read Enid Blyton and Joyce Stranger who wrote animal stories. My earliest memories...
Girls and Science: Changing the Stereotype One Book at a Time by Cindy Cipriano
When I think back to when I was in middle and high school, science wasn’t exactly my favorite subject. The words in the textbooks were hard to read, much less...
