Méabh Ní Choileáin / Collins 🦋

A very special day yesterday! Freya won the Great Reads Award Junior Category 💛 A wonderful celebration of books and reading with @Triona_Campbell, who won the Senior award, the extraordinary Dave Rudden and Sam Blake, and so many librarians, teachers, and students 🥰 #GRAirl

@TRosenstock @evelyn_orourke @richieconroy @IrisComhar Comhghairdeachas leat @TRosenstock! Ag tnúth le heachtraí Éabha a leanúint arís 💛

An-oíche go deo aréir nuair a sheol @evelyn_orourke Inis Mara 2, agus leabhar nua le @richieconroy. Buíochas ó chroí le gach duine @IrisComhar agus le gach éinne a bhí inár dteannta 📚❤️

Just the greatest privilege to have been this year's One County, One Book author ✍📚 GRMMA @corkcolibrary @Corkcoco for all of your work putting a whole month of events together, including this one 🥰

@happy_scribbler You're right!

Lost a few followers on here recently, with people closing their accounts . . . but gained HUNDREDS in the last 24 hs over in 🦋 So . . .

Bhain mé an-sult as an ócáid seo! GRMMA leis na daltaí agus na múinteoirí go léir a bhí i láthair. Tá súil agam go raibh cuid agaibh spreagtha i dtreo na scríbhneoireachta ina dhiaidh ✍💛

We are very excited for all the upcoming One County One Book events!😀 So are students from Kinsale Community School who are enjoying this years One County One Book read ‘Freya Harte is not a Puzzle’ by Irish author Méabh Collins. ‘Freya Harte is Not a Puzzle’ is a touching and captivating story about the experiences of an autistic teenage girl. One County One Book is part of Teen Literature Festival which runs throughout the month of November and introduces young people in County Cork to Irish authors, both of which are supported by Creative Ireland. There are still limited spaces remaining for secondary schools! Transition Year coordinators and teachers can contact schools.library@corkcoco.ie for more information and to express an interest in attending. #OneCountyOneBook #MeabhCollins #FreyaHarteisNotaPuzzle #TeenLiteratureFestival2024 @soundslikewave @Corkcoco @CorkCountyArts @creativeirl @OBrienPress @LibrariesIre

"borrowed frequently" 🥰

I'm honoured that my book was selected as this year's One County, One Book title, and looking forward to these great events 🤗

Freya had travelled with us all the way to Seoul in South Korea! There were many lovely spots to sit down and enjoy a good book. One of them was The Seoul Outdoor Library which an annual open-air event launched by the Seoul city library. ‘Freya Harte is Not a Puzzle’ written by Irish author Méabh Collins is this years ‘One County One Book’ which is part of Teen Literature Festival which runs throughout the month of November. Copies of ‘Freya Harte is Not a Puzzle’ are available to borrow in your local Cork County Council Library & Arts Service branch & mobile libraries. #OneCountyOneBook #MeabhCollins #TeenLiteratureFestival2024 @soundslikewave @Corkcoco @CorkCountyArts @creativeirl @OBrienPress @LibrariesIre

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The world is genuinely a better place with @happy_scribbler books in it. They are written with such care and sensitivity and would brighten any bookshelf 🤗

Here are 10 picks from our Recommended Irish Reads 2024 guide to help #SparkALoveOfStories 🤩✨

Winning London 😍 Working in publishing in London a few years ago is what first inspired me to try writing my own book, so it's exciting to see Freya there today 💛

Over the 🥐 to see Freya en France! 🤩

We are delighted to share the cover for our new reading guide - Recommended Irish Reads 2024 ☘️. This year, the reading guide is a collection of the best books of 2024 from Irish born and Irish based artists. It contains reviews of 100 books suitable for readers aged 0-18 years as well as 100 more ‘read also’ recommendations signposting to the wealth of talent that we’re proud to claim as Irish. The reading guide will be launching this Friday, during an evening of live-storytelling in the window of @DubrayBooks on Grafton Street from 5-7pm with @LaureatenanOg @PForde123 and friends. Not to be missed! ✨ Dazzling cover art by @pencilrobot Event details: childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/sp… #SparkALoveOfStories

Réamhordaithe 🤗

#CultureNight is fast approaching, but there is still time to register for Pitch Perfect, Friday 20th September. Here’s your chance to pitch your book directly to our team at O’Brien Press! Full details on how to apply: culturenight.ie/event/pitch-pe… @CultureNightDub @CultureNight

Commercial fiction is often dismissed with monikers like "easy" or "beach" reads but the genre's conventions actively contribute to its socially activist potential. Read my arguments why here ⬇️

If you want the very latest in cutting-edge Irish language culture, check out Súil Amháin.

Today is publication day for "The Boy Who Slipped Through Time" @poolbegbooks to celebrate here is an interview I did with Sarah Gill @image_magazine about my writing life. 😊📚