Claire Hennessy's Blog, page 7
November 18, 2017
New things!
Backlist on Kindle, embrace the 2000s
Girls challenge rape culture, Amy Reed & others
Fairytale success for Sligo illustrator, Eva Byrne speaks
Turtles & optimism in YA fiction, John Green’s YA heroism
November 12, 2017
The Broken Spiral
Honoured to have a story in this anthology in aid of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, a severely-underfunded and hugely-needed resource. It’s launching this week in the IWC (all welcome), and will be available from Dubray Books, Hodges Figgis & Books Upstairs. From the snippets I’ve heard/read, I think this will be a terrific collection – the kind of book you buy for yourself (and others) not just because of The Good Cause but because you really want to read it.
November 9, 2017
Backlist on Kindle
For anyone who’s not aware… some of my older YA titles (out-of-print) are now available for Kindle!
November 2, 2017
October 26, 2017
October 19, 2017
October 17, 2017
Recent things
At #Octocon2017 last night, at the panel about scaring young adults. Opinions varied on what worked. @Octocon @TheCallYA pic.twitter.com/qQ5tft4iPL
— Oisin McGann (@OisinMcGann) October 7, 2017
A post shared by UCD LitSoc (@ucdlitsoc) on Oct 12, 2017 at 3:04pm PDT
Thanks to all @Dept51 for a great time #deptcon3 loved my panel with @chennessybooks @maggieharcourt Sarah Carroll and @elainajryan pic.twitter.com/rMHA5eVAVI
— Sophie McKenzie (@sophiemckenzie_) October 15, 2017
And also:
wrote about children’s poet & performer Joseph Coelho for the Irish Times
talked to Aoife Barry at TheJournal.ie about manifestos-vs-fiction
honoured to have contributed a story to The Broken Spiral , an anthology in aid of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre available from mid-November
October 12, 2017
October 5, 2017
October 1, 2017
Recent things
talking about censorship to Alison Flood in The Guardian
podcast of an event for #BannedBooksWeek at the Free Word Centre
Banshee is open for submissions all this month!
