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
I'm so so thrilled that the cover for Shorelines was revealed earlier today, isn't she a beaut? 🧜🏻♀️
Shorelines is YA verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid told through the lens of a fat protagonist. Out February 2026!
Shorelines is YA verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid told through the lens of a fat protagonist. Out February 2026!
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I'm so so thrilled that the cover for Shorelines was revealed earlier today, isn't she a beaut? 🧜🏻♀️
Shorelines is YA verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid told through the lens of a fat protagonist. Out February 2026!
Shorelines is YA verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid told through the lens of a fat protagonist. Out February 2026!
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.
Over the next few months, there will be sessions on creative writing, bookselling, librarianship, publishing, book event management, and much more.
If you have a bookworm aged 13-19 years old in your life, be sure to share this with them.
If you have a bookworm aged 13-19 years old in your life, be sure to share this with them.
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Over the next few months, there will be sessions on creative writing, bookselling, librarianship, publishing, book event management, and much more.
If you have a bookworm aged 13-19 years old in your life, be sure to share this with them.
If you have a bookworm aged 13-19 years old in your life, be sure to share this with them.
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
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.
I've just spent the most lovely day settling into the LexIcon and yapping with Eve who has my whole heart. There are so many good days ahead, I know it.
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I've just spent the most lovely day settling into the LexIcon and yapping with Eve who has my whole heart. There are so many good days ahead, I know it.
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?
Me: Do you think Freddie would be a f@scist?
Himself: I assume all cats would be
Himself: I assume all cats would be
August 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Me: Do you think Freddie would be a f@scist?
Himself: I assume all cats would be
Himself: I assume all cats would be
New @booksireland.bsky.social article is out and this time it's all about Irish young adult literature!
💛 Matched Up
💜 A Fix of Light
🩵 Rani Choudhury Must Die
💙 Skipshock
💚 Any Way You Slice It
❤️ Songs For Ghosts
Link below, happy reading!
💛 Matched Up
💜 A Fix of Light
🩵 Rani Choudhury Must Die
💙 Skipshock
💚 Any Way You Slice It
❤️ Songs For Ghosts
Link below, happy reading!
August 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New @booksireland.bsky.social article is out and this time it's all about Irish young adult literature!
💛 Matched Up
💜 A Fix of Light
🩵 Rani Choudhury Must Die
💙 Skipshock
💚 Any Way You Slice It
❤️ Songs For Ghosts
Link below, happy reading!
💛 Matched Up
💜 A Fix of Light
🩵 Rani Choudhury Must Die
💙 Skipshock
💚 Any Way You Slice It
❤️ Songs For Ghosts
Link below, happy reading!
Thank you.
▪️ 52 items listed
▪️ 32 authors, illustrators, and bookish organisations involved
▪️ 163 individual items sold
▪️ 169 donations made
▪️ €9000 (on the dot!) raised for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
▪️ 52 items listed
▪️ 32 authors, illustrators, and bookish organisations involved
▪️ 163 individual items sold
▪️ 169 donations made
▪️ €9000 (on the dot!) raised for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Thank you.
▪️ 52 items listed
▪️ 32 authors, illustrators, and bookish organisations involved
▪️ 163 individual items sold
▪️ 169 donations made
▪️ €9000 (on the dot!) raised for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
▪️ 52 items listed
▪️ 32 authors, illustrators, and bookish organisations involved
▪️ 163 individual items sold
▪️ 169 donations made
▪️ €9000 (on the dot!) raised for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
The fundraiser ends in 2 HOURS + closes at MIDDAY TODAY. If you want to donate, now is your last chance, link below. Also, if got an email from us about the picturebook masterclass with @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social but haven't donated yet, now is your last chance!
www.justgiving.com/page/irish-k...
www.justgiving.com/page/irish-k...
August 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The fundraiser ends in 2 HOURS + closes at MIDDAY TODAY. If you want to donate, now is your last chance, link below. Also, if got an email from us about the picturebook masterclass with @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social but haven't donated yet, now is your last chance!
www.justgiving.com/page/irish-k...
www.justgiving.com/page/irish-k...
I'll be very honest, I fully didn't expect us to hit this number. But yee are so close to selling out every single item in the fundraiser AND an awful lot of you have been extra generous when donating. Thank you thank you thank you.
August 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'll be very honest, I fully didn't expect us to hit this number. But yee are so close to selling out every single item in the fundraiser AND an awful lot of you have been extra generous when donating. Thank you thank you thank you.