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Ruth Ennis

@rurooie.bsky.social

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📚 Kidlit and YA Bookworm 📓 Writer in Residence at dlr LexIcon 📖 Reviews with Books Ireland Magazine 🖋 Shorelines with Little Island Feb 2026 ✒️ Repped by Alice Williams Lit Agency 👋🏻 She/they

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · May 18

Hello, just updating my intro to pin on my profile 👋

📚 Kidlit and YA enthusiast

📖 Reviewer at @booksireland.bsky.social

🖋 Writer (poetry + verse novels)

📘 Rep: Alice Williams Lit Agency

🧜‍♀️ Shorelines (debut) publishing in Feb 2026 with @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

📚 Pieces published here:

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 8h

Book your tickets for session 1 here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/booked-up-...

Booked Up with Ruth Ennis

Are you a teenager who loves books? Do you want to know what it would be like to work in a bookish career? Then this is the event for you.

www.eventbrite.ie

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 8h

Over the next few months, there will be sessions on creative writing, bookselling, librarianship, publishing, book event management, and much more.

If you have a bookworm aged 13-19 years old in your life, be sure to share this with them.

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 8h

Introducing Booked Up: Futures for Young Readers

As part of my community outreach programme during my time as Emerging Writer in Residence at DLR LexIcon, I'll be facilitating monthly workshops and panels for teenagers interested in exploring careers and opportunities involving books.

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 1d

The shameless self promo begins:

My debut novel is called Shorelines and it's a young adult verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid told through the lens of a fat protagonist

Out February 2026 with @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

(here's me with my proof copy, deliriously excited)

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaaaahhh 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️ (ty)

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 12d

She just wants someone to play with

Made on the way home from @dlrarts.bsky.social

#StormAmy #SpeirGorm

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 12d

I meant day 3 good god and we're already off the rails

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 12d

Day 4 of #DIKBCHALLENGE25: a book that's perfect for bookclub

I feel like a good mystery is always a safe bet for bookclubs, and the intrigue and twists and turns in Arabella Pepper by @ermurray.bsky.social are guaranteed to grip any reader 🔍

#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 13d

Day 2 of the #DIKBCHALLENGE25: a book for 15-18 years old

Treacle Town by Brian Conaghan is a gripping YA story about the importance of words and the power of poetry for a young boy who is looking for a way out of the life he is living 🩷🧡🩷🧡

#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 14d

Day 1 of the #DIKBChallenge25: share a book with a blue cover 💙

A Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston

A really unique book, full of words and chaos and wildly entertaining definitions

#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 19d

I'm just finishing up my first week as Emerging Writer in Residence at DLR Lexicon and wanted to write this. I love it here 💙

#DunLaoghaire

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 22d

We're losing generations of artists to fundamental needs not being met and this is the government's chance to stop failing us.

Graphic from campaign4arts on ig

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 22d

Genuinely folks, there is no future for Irish artists if the Basic Income for the Arts programme doesn't continue. The cost of living and houses crisis impacts us all, but the recent reports indicate artists are 3 times more at risk to be below the poverty line.

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 23d

When in #Dublin - popped into @childrensbooksireland.ie #CBIconf25 & @gutterbookshop.bsky.social let me sell a book! Great catch-up chats with lovely people incl. @louiestowell.bsky.social & @littleislandbooks.bsky.social & got a proof of @rurooie.bsky.social 's debut #YA novel #shorelines ! #BobWin

Selfie of Bob & Marta Gutter Bookshop grinning outside in front of a #Hogbert picturebook window.

Photo of the bookstall with staff holding card machines in the air to get a phone signal

Photo of Shorelines proof plus a #Loki keyring & a 'I Love My Local Bookshop' from Cecelia Ahern.

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 23d

It's so funny that photo 🤳 🤳 🤳 so good seeing you Bob!

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 27d

A whole guide! Spoilt!

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 27d

I'm starting to plan things to do in the lead up and around the publication date of my book (Feb 2026)

Children's and YA book folks, what advice would you give to someone with a debut?

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 28d

I've just spent the most lovely day settling into the LexIcon and yapping with Eve who has my whole heart. There are so many good days ahead, I know it.

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 28d

I'll also be facilitating a series of panels for teenagers interested in exploring a career in books and stories. There are so many possibilities for booklovers and I want to do my bit to help them break into this world.

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 28d

It's been a dream of mine to do a residency like this for years. I'll be focusing on writing a verse novel for teens, based on my experience with Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 28d

I can hardly believe I'm saying this. I'm so beyond thrilled and grateful to be appointed the Emerging Writer in Residence alongside the wonderful @evemcdonnell.bsky.social as the Established Writer in Residence at Dun Laoghaire CoCo Arts

www.dlrcoco.ie/arts/writers...

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Sep 13

Genuinely! I learned about everything from ISBNs to event programming, it was excellent

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Sep 12

I learned so much in the few weeks I started there, genuinely changed my life

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Sep 12

I think we ALL have had moments like Marsha's...!

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Sep 11

Olivia is such a fabulous writer and the picturebook world is better for having her in it.