Creative Writing Workshop with Meg Grehan: Crafting Joy

About the Workshop

Learn to build your own safe space word by word. We'll be exploring joy and comfort in stories, books and poems and learning how to infuse our own writing with joy and comfort. Open to all levels!

About Meg Grehan

Meg Grehan is the author of five novels-in-verse for young readers, they are The Space Between, The Deepest Breath, Baby Teeth, The Lonely Book and The Brightest Star. Her books have won two Children’s Books Ireland Awards and been nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, An Post Irish Book Awards and the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing. She lives in County Donegal where she spends too much time reading poetry and hugging trees.

More about Meg's latest work

The Brightest Star, Little Island Books, May 2025
"I think
Maybe
Part of knowing yourself
Is letting yourself
Be known."
The long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning The Deepest Breath – a joyful exploration of identity and new beginnings by the critically-acclaimed Meg Grehan.
Stevie, Chloe and Andrew are starting secondary school, and everything is new and scary.
There are new people, new classrooms, new challenges. Stevie and Chloe know that they like each other and their afterschool group, The Rainbow Club. But Andrew's pulling away and the friends are worried.
They thought they knew who they were together but now they're not so sure.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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