Ruth Ennis
@rurooie.bsky.social
📚 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
📓 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:
📚 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:
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.
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.
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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.
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.
Freddie has spent the morning scratching at the door, eating our hair, knocking stuff off the locker, swiping at our does, chewing the phone charger, and huffing in anger.
You try convincing an orange cat that it's not actually breakfast time because the clocks went back and see how far you get.
You try convincing an orange cat that it's not actually breakfast time because the clocks went back and see how far you get.
October 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Freddie has spent the morning scratching at the door, eating our hair, knocking stuff off the locker, swiping at our does, chewing the phone charger, and huffing in anger.
You try convincing an orange cat that it's not actually breakfast time because the clocks went back and see how far you get.
You try convincing an orange cat that it's not actually breakfast time because the clocks went back and see how far you get.
New @booksireland.bsky.social article is up and it was such a joy to interview Dagogo Hart about his new picturebook Lantern Smoke. I love yapping with poets, I could have listened to Dagogo talk for hours 🧡
‘The idea of home has evolved for me—it’s not so much about looking back, but looking forward’
📗Catch Dagogo Hart at the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social on Friday 07th November📗
@rurooie.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/dagogo-hart/
📗Catch Dagogo Hart at the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social on Friday 07th November📗
@rurooie.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/dagogo-hart/
'For me, home is a bridge'—Dagogo Hart - Books Ireland
Ruth Ennis talks to Dagogo Hart about his first book for children, Lantern Smoke (Gill Books).
booksirelandmagazine.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
New @booksireland.bsky.social article is up and it was such a joy to interview Dagogo Hart about his new picturebook Lantern Smoke. I love yapping with poets, I could have listened to Dagogo talk for hours 🧡
Reposted by Ruth Ennis
Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
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.
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.
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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.
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.
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)
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)
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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)
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)
She just wants someone to play with
Made on the way home from @dlrarts.bsky.social
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
Made on the way home from @dlrarts.bsky.social
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
October 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
She just wants someone to play with
Made on the way home from @dlrarts.bsky.social
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
Made on the way home from @dlrarts.bsky.social
#StormAmy #SpeirGorm
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
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
October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
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
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
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
October 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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
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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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
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
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
#DunLaoghaire
September 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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
#DunLaoghaire
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.
September 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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.
Reposted by Ruth Ennis
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
September 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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
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?
Children's and YA book folks, what advice would you give to someone with a debut?
September 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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?
Children's and YA book folks, what advice would you give to someone with a debut?
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...
www.dlrcoco.ie/arts/writers...
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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...
www.dlrcoco.ie/arts/writers...
The Lonely Only Dinosaur by @oliviahopewriter.bsky.social and @annasuessbauer.bsky.social
I'm just on the way back from the lovely launch of this book at Dubray Grafton (at which I took exactly zero photos oops)
I'm just on the way back from the lovely launch of this book at Dubray Grafton (at which I took exactly zero photos oops)
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The Lonely Only Dinosaur by @oliviahopewriter.bsky.social and @annasuessbauer.bsky.social
I'm just on the way back from the lovely launch of this book at Dubray Grafton (at which I took exactly zero photos oops)
I'm just on the way back from the lovely launch of this book at Dubray Grafton (at which I took exactly zero photos oops)
I LOVE the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social so much, in many ways it started my career in books back in 2017 (I think) when I first volunteered at the festival.
I'm unbelievably excited to be doing a school event this year with the festival, and of course it's all about poetry!
I'm unbelievably excited to be doing a school event this year with the festival, and of course it's all about poetry!
September 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I LOVE the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social so much, in many ways it started my career in books back in 2017 (I think) when I first volunteered at the festival.
I'm unbelievably excited to be doing a school event this year with the festival, and of course it's all about poetry!
I'm unbelievably excited to be doing a school event this year with the festival, and of course it's all about poetry!
I share the opinion as pretty much any artist in Ireland; it is crucial that the BIA scheme continues and is expanded. This is just a poem about “why” for me. I’m not sure of the benefit of sharing this, other than I hope that one other person might feel heard with it.
#BasicIncomeForTheArts
#BasicIncomeForTheArts
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I share the opinion as pretty much any artist in Ireland; it is crucial that the BIA scheme continues and is expanded. This is just a poem about “why” for me. I’m not sure of the benefit of sharing this, other than I hope that one other person might feel heard with it.
#BasicIncomeForTheArts
#BasicIncomeForTheArts
Best part of working in a bookshop are the themed displays 📚
September 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Best part of working in a bookshop are the themed displays 📚
Me: you know children's books, name one picturebook
Himself: Ehm, that one, "Well..."
Me: What?
Himself: You know, by Chris Haughton
Himself: Ehm, that one, "Well..."
Me: What?
Himself: You know, by Chris Haughton
September 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Me: you know children's books, name one picturebook
Himself: Ehm, that one, "Well..."
Me: What?
Himself: You know, by Chris Haughton
Himself: Ehm, that one, "Well..."
Me: What?
Himself: You know, by Chris Haughton
I love them so much you know?
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I love them so much you know?
I started a new job today, and while I don't believe in signs, there were a lot of kind people who made my day brighter and made it feel all just right. A barista who gave me a mini muffin with my coffee, an adorable 3yo boy who wanted to show me his toy car and play a bit before my shift...
August 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I started a new job today, and while I don't believe in signs, there were a lot of kind people who made my day brighter and made it feel all just right. A barista who gave me a mini muffin with my coffee, an adorable 3yo boy who wanted to show me his toy car and play a bit before my shift...
Reposted by Ruth Ennis
BREAKING: At least 50 Palestinians, including 10 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave’s hospitals say.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0kczn
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0kczn
August 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
BREAKING: At least 50 Palestinians, including 10 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave’s hospitals say.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0kczn
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0kczn
Folks I'm so late to this train but I think Breakfast On Pluto might be my new favourite film
August 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Folks I'm so late to this train but I think Breakfast On Pluto might be my new favourite film