Recent bits ‘n’ pieces

Banshees launching (Liquor Rooms, Dublin | 29 September)

Some recent things:

Delighted to have my story ‘Small Rebellions’ in the gorgeous journal Long Story, Short this month
Also very pleased to have my story ‘Screen‘ in Numéro Cinq ‘s Uimhir a Cúig section this month
I did some recapping of panels at the CBI conference for the Irish Times, including the YA panel and the spoken word/poetry session
Louise O’Neill’s Asking for It is the IT Book Club choice this month; I wrote about it in the context of YA fiction tackling rape
Banshee launched in Dublin: we have photos!

And upcoming events:

October 15th: YA panel discussion at 6pm, Hodges Figgis, with Ruth Long, Dave Rudden & Louise O’Neill
October 17th/18th: Writing Teen Fiction workshop at Dalkey Creates
October 23rd/24th: chairing panels at Dept Con 1

Finally, as ever, I’m teaching at the Big Smoke Writing Factory regularly: check out upcoming creative writing classes here.