Ruth Ennis (she/they) is a writer from Kildare. Her work has been published in The Irish Writer’s Handbook (Books Ireland) and I Am The Wind (Little Island). Ruth’s debut novel Shorelines (Little Island) is a young adult verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid, told through the lens of a fat protagonist.
Ruth is usually working with books in some capacity. She was the Emerging Writer in Residence at the dlr LexIcon 2025-2026. She regularly reviews children’s and young adult books on various platforms. Her main reviews can be found on the Books Ireland Magazine website. She is also a Book Doctor (Professional Book-Recommender) for Children’s Books Ireland.
Since the last update I went to the Doors Into the Dark: A Day of Weird Fiction event in the Seamus Heaney centre in Belfast where I got to see tons of authors speak and also got to meet and chat to Sam Thompson, Damien Kelly, Jo Zebedee, and Stephen Daly in person.
Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 - 1883) was a County Down adventure novelist whose Gothic frontier fiction shaped later lost-world and juvenile fantasy.
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