2020 – dude!

Here are the latest few young adult review roundups for the Irish Times:

Young adult fiction: Delightful distractions for January (January 2020)Young adult books: smashing the sound of silence (December 2019)Young adult fiction round-up: Holly Jackson’s gripping crime thriller (November 2019)Young adult books roundup: contender for ‘best of 2019’ lists (October 2019)

And here are some things coming up, creative writing workshop-wise:

Children’s and YA Fiction (Mondays, starting 27th January)Writing Boost (Saturday 29th February)Creative Writing for Self-Expression and Wellbeing (Saturday 21st March)& more

Also:

We revamped the online creative writing workshops at Big Smoke last year & it’s been very pleasing indeed – group classrooms for everyone to share things in. I have become slightly obsessed with IG stories about seventy bajillion years after everyone else, but still.I mean, I am still on the twitters yammering about mostly book-ish things, too. Oh, right, self-promotion stuff. (Ugh. Notions.) So there are three kinds of workshops/talks/classes I deliver to places as a once-off kind of thing – author visits (mostly for schools), creative writing workshops (for ages 8+ up to adult), and publishing seminars (older teens, college students, adults). Find out more here. Seriously, it’s 2020. Is that not properly bonkers? It is The Future!