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Meg Grehan

@megcathwrites.bsky.social
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Books, poems and trees 😌 Author of five novels-in-verse with Little Island 🧡 📍Donegal meg-grehan.com

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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 · 02/07/2025
new lil substack :)
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Reclamation: On Fury and Loving Sylvia Plath
I have always been angry.
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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
absolutely! 🥰
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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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a cartoon cat is standing on a pink background and giving a thank you gesture .
ALT: a cartoon cat is standing on a pink background and giving a thank you gesture .
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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
❤️❤️❤️
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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
That was so fun! Thank you so much! 🥰 #ukteenchat
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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
It's just so fun to go with the flow and see what happens!
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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
Life would be so much more boring if we stopped learning! #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
I'm so glad you like them! They can seem so strange and intimidating but they are very friendly! #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
- theme and message. Personally- I really just love verse very, very much. It comes very naturally to me, I don't think I could write a book in prose! It's beautiful and fun and so liberating as a writer #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
There is!! Ah, I'm so glad you liked it!
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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It's so important!
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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 really was!
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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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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
So excited! Thanks for having me! #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
Congrats!!
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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 · 30/11/2024
Could i be added please? 🥰
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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
Fresh air!! If you can drag yourself up and out (even to the window!) nice fresh air always helps! Also ginger! 🫚 (hope you feel better soon ❤️)
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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
omg hi Heather!! ❤️
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Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
(i am having fun though)
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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-...
Screenshot of The Dee-Brief newsletter - recommending something to read, watch and listen to.
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