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Puffin Ireland established to unearth new breed of young children’s authors
Puffin, the children’s imprint of the Penguin publishing group, is setting up in Ireland. Michael McLoughlin, the Penguin Ireland managing director believes that the wealth of talented authors on the Emerald Isle can create the best-selling young children’s books of the future, both in Ireland and abroad.
Next year is Puffin’s 70th birthday and Puffin Ireland will publish its first books as part of the anniversary celebrations.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis; Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce; Charlotte’s Web by EB White; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and Watership Down by Richard Adams are among the iconic titles on the Puffin list. Best-selling Irish writer Eoin Colfer, famous for his Artemis Fowl books, is also a bright star in the Puffin constellation.
Writers can submit manuscripts to Puffin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
Also in Ireland…
The Faber Academy will begin a six-month course Writing a Novel from Start to Finish in Dublin next month. The novel-writing course, based at the Winding Stair bookshop on Ormond Quay, will take the form of weekly evening workshops and monthly day-long seminars on Saturdays.
Guest lecturers will include Anne Enright, Joseph O’Connor, Hugo Hamilton, Claire Keegan and Claire Kilroy and they will address issues such as plotting, editing and presenting of a novel.
16 places are available on the course, but one participant chosen on merit will be awarded a fellowship and will not have to pay the €3,000 fee.
Patrick Keogh, head of the Faber Academy, said that he sees Ireland as a place “that is wrapped up in the idea of storytelling, both the written and the spoken word”.
Participants will be chosen based on the quality of their submitted and all applicants must send a sample of their prose fiction no longer than 1,000 words to the Faber Academy before September 11th.
The Faber Academy has been offering similar courses in Britain for almost a year and most of them have sold out quickly. Applications close next Friday for the course which starts on October 7th. See www.faberacademy.co.uk for more details.
Posted: September 4th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Eoin Colfer
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