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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

hi just popping in to say please come to this ty www.inkwelldonegal.com/what-we-do/i...

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

hi just popping in to say please come to this ty www.inkwelldonegal.com/what-we-do/i...

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Don't take writing advice too seriously! Trust yourself and your instincts. Follow what excites you and do what feels right to you. You've got this! #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Something wildly different! Adult creative-non-fiction in verse! (although I'm playing with an idea for a YA as well!) #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Pantser forever! I can't plan at all! I write with no idea what will happen and completely out of order. I'm 100% at the mercy of my mood and whatever pops into my mind. I do pinterest a lot though! #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Mostly I think I'm just more confident! TDB was my second book and I was terrified that my first book had been a total fluke, that I'd fooled everyone, that I wouldn't be able to do it again. Now I have more faith in my writing ability and I know my own style much better! #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I trust my characters. I write for everyone so I let the characters guide me and I follow what they need! I don't approach the actual writing any differently ☺️ #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

That you don't need to know everything about yourself to BE yourself. That learning about yourself is a lovely, exciting, fascinating thing. That someone somewhere gets it. That community is a special thing. That you deserve the time, space and grace to learn who you are. ❤️ #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

There may or may not be a... hand holding scene! 😮 (it's very sweet and meant the world to me!) #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

For readers: it's just so accessible. It can seem intimidating but it has rhythm, space and shape that make it so wonderful to read. Also, less words 😆 It's the perfect form for themes like mental health because every word is so deliberate and it gets straight to the heart of the - #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The Deepest Breath was adapted by a New York theatre company, Treehouse Shakers. Seeing the play made me so desperate to check in & see how my wee characters were doing! It was so inspiring. I was curious to see how they would handle a new school & new challenges. (Also I missed them!) #ukteenchat

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's a follow-up to my book The Deepest Breath! In this one we follow Stevie, Andy & Chloe as they start secondary school. The girls are super excited to join the Rainbow Club but suddenly Andy starts to distance himself and they don't know why. It's about friendship, anxiety & identity #ukteenchat

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

'I’m a chronic overthinker, but I was told by a writer I know to just get the words down' —Meg Grehan talks with Liam Maguire @megcathwrites.bsky.social @liammaguire.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/just-write-t...

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'Just write the damn thing'—Liam Maguire - Books Ireland

'His writing is rich and heavy with imagery'—Meg Grehan talks with Liam Maguire.

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Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Next #ukteenchat tonight - Tues 6th May 8-9pm BST with the lovely @megcathwrites.bsky.social here on BlueSky. She'll be chatting all about her new book, The Brightest Star. All welcome to come along and join the chat 🙂 #YA #kidlit #writerslife #WritingCommunity @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Huge thanks to @megcathwrites.bsky.social, @grainneobrien.bsky.social & Siobhán Parkinson for a wonderful evening of conversation ❤️ As much a celebration of the verse novel as a discussion of beautiful new work from these rising stars in children’s literature ✨ @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

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Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Join @megcathwrites.bsky.social and @grainneobrien.bsky.social at @booksupstairs.bsky.social on Thursday 1st May, 6:30pm at @booksupstairs.bsky.social for a very special #PoetryDay conversation on verse novels with Siobhán Parkinson! Book your FREE ticket: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

can you believe we get two (TWO) books by @heatherchristle.bsky.social this year? I am soon to speak of nothing else.

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I am the luckiest author, this cover is a dream 🥹 Coming May 1st from @littleislandbooks.bsky.social 💜 Cover by the very wonderful Nene Lonergan!

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Emily Dickinson Daily @dickinsondaily.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Soul selects her own Society Then shuts the Door To her divine Majority Present no more

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

'...there’s a passion there, a liberated frustration, a release, along with a simplicity that welcomes you and a depth that keeps you reading.' Meg Grehan talks with Aoife Riach 📕 @megcathwrites.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/a-beautiful-...

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A beautiful balance—Aoife Riach - Books Ireland

Beginning with the self, containing a whole world—Meg Grehan talks with Aoife Riach.

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Happy birthday Emily Dickinson, I will be insufferable all day x

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

“Buy books of poetry and give them to people.” (Words intoned by Jericho Brown at an event on Friday, running in my head since then. So now I’m putting them in your head too.) They don’t even have to like poems, because then you are also giving them “having poetry in your life” which is HUGE.

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Introducing January Pages! Hi #writer friends! If you would like to receive a little letter and writing prompt in your inbox every morning of January 2025, you can sign up here - www.meg-grehan.com/inky-fingers...

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

writing for adults is very weird, you guys. like yes being able to swear is fun and being gross is great, but there's this certain type of sincerity/sweetness/hopefulness that i can fill my kids books with that just doesn't fit here, I'm having to find ways to slip hope in like veggies in spaghetti

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. - Mary Oliver

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

writing is going so well today, the loveliest feeling 🥰

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Emily Dickinson Daily @dickinsondaily.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Her breast is fit pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thrones But I had not a crest. Her heart is fit for home - I - a Sparrow - build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest.

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Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

📣 We’re open for submissions! 📚 We are looking for the best Irish books for young readers everywhere. You don’t need an agent. You don’t need to have published before. Please do read our submission guidelines: www.littleisland.ie/pages/gettin...

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Getting Published

Little Island Books is an award-winning independent Irish publishing company. We publish only great books for children and young adults.

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

realising I LIVE for giving feedback and helping other writers, how do i do this more i need to do this more i love it so much

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Dee Stevens @deestevens.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I write a newsletter - recommending three things - once a week. And people read it. You might like it too: mailchi.mp/stevens/the-...

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Emily Dickinson Daily @dickinsondaily.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Love always, and ever, and true!

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Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K. Le Guin

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

good morning! please follow my Emily Dickinson account! @dickinsondaily.bsky.social 🕊️

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

a little bit of snow! a little bit of snow!! a little bit of snow!!!

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Emily Dickinson Daily @dickinsondaily.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today is far from childhood But up and down the hills I held her hand the tighter, Which shortened all the miles.

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Emily Dickinson Daily @dickinsondaily.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Beauty crowds me till I die — Beauty, mercy have on me! But if I expire today, Let it be in sight of thee.

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I've made an Emily Dickinson page to share quotes and poems! @dickinsondaily.bsky.social 🌋🍂🧡

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

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Emily Dickinson Daily @dickinsondaily.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"If you were here, and Oh that you were, my Susie, we need not talk at all, our eyes would whisper for us, and your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language"

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/11/2024

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

Photograph of book page which contains a short poem by Raymond Carver which reads 'And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.'

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thinking about doing something a little different (for me) next year... not tracking my reading at all. No keeping count, no ratings, no storygraph, no goals, nothing but reading...

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I have a new post up on substack ☺️ it's about a poetry retreat i went to recently, a gorgeous experience, somehow both soothing and invigorating 🍂 meggrehan.substack.com/p/passing-th...

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Passing the Threshold

A Poetry Retreat in the Donegal Mountains

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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello! @megcathwrites.bsky.social and I have been making a cozy writing chat podcast called Four Seasons Writers Retreat and the final episode of our Autumn volume has just dropped! We talk writing rules, instincts, time, and much more, and we hope you’ll listen in 🐌 🎙️: linktr.ee/fourseasonsw...

The illustrated podcast cover of Four Seasons Writers Retreat. It’s a typewriter sitting amid autumnal oranges reds and browns. There’s a pumpkin, changing leaves, a check blanket with a coffee cup and pen on top. The typewriter page says “Volume I: Autumn” and there is a determined looking snail making its way across the top of the keyboard.

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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

"She loves you like pausing to move a snail somewhere safer in the rain" - Jack Underwood

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