Things!

Latest YA review column in the Irish Times looks at the difficulty of writing about ‘issues’. Banshee things: Paris Syndrome has been getting some fabulous reviews, Issue 9 launches in Dublin on Thursday 17th October, and Issue 10 is open for submissions all this month.Big Smoke things: several shiny new creative writing workshops coming up this month and next. Gave a workshop for the first-but-surely-not-the-last Donaghmede Literary Festival. Look, I’m on a sign!Books I’ve loved recently: Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat Girl , the latest Aisling book by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen, and My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (out January 2020).