Fantastic news for Irish illustration – two Irish-based illustrators have won awards in the prestigious 3×3 Children’s Illustration international competition!

Peter Donnelly is an illustrator with a background in animation design. His project Rotkäppchen - a series of stylized illustrations based on a traditional German folk tale – received a …

Congratulations to Rachel Rooney on winning the CLPE Poetry Award 2012 with The Language of Cat, published by Janetta Otter-Barry Books at Frances Lincoln Children’s Books!

Rachel joins a group of highly regarded previous winners including Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Roger Mc Gough, John Agard and Philip Gross. …

Dundalk IT are looking to recruit a Writer in Residence to promote writing, reading and creativity, based in the Institute Library.

The Writer in Residence will engage with the DkIT community of staff and students, and with the local community, including local schools.

The Writer in Residence will:

• have previously

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Last month, eleven Irish children’s writers and illustrators jetted off to Cologne to take part in the city’s annual children’s book festival. Each year the International Book Weeks team, consisting of the SK Stiftung Kultur, the Cultural Office of the city of Cologne, the Public Libraries and the Catholic Libraries …

Here is the second of this week’s guest posts from the young writers of Fighting Words. Today Aedán Hamrock tells us about the making of Jam: An Anthology of Graphic Fiction. Once again, congrats from CBI to all the talented young writers and artists involved, we think Jam is …

We are SO excited this week to be hosting two guest blogs from the super talented young ‘uns down at Fighting Words, who have just published two fantastic books full of their own stories! Today’s post is by Nadine Connors and Claire McGann, who will tell us about how …

Children’s Books Ireland is currently developing a new Strategic Plan for the organisation. This new plan will map out our aims and activities for the next three years. We are very keen to hear from a range of organisations and individuals about how we might be able to fulfill of …