Ruth Ennis is an Irish aspiring children's writer, based in Kildare. She has a B.A. in English with Drama from UCD and an M.Phil. in Children’s Literature from TCD. She has written poetry, short stories, and essays for a number of publications. She was a Young Writer Delegate with The Irish Writers Centre for the International Literature Festival Dublin and was selected for the Words Ireland Mentorship Programme. She was recently awarded funding from the Arts Council Literature Bursary. You can find her online at @rurooie.

Publications, Awards, and Performances

Awarded funding from the Arts Council Literature Bursary, Round 2 to research, write, edit, and query a young adult verse novel.

Selected for the Words Ireland Mentorship Programme, where she received support to write a young adult verse novel.

Reviewer for Children’s Books Ireland Inis Magazine

Co-founded and wrote for teen and young adult literary journal Paper Lanterns, supported by the Arts Council (2019-2020).

Assistant editor and writer for the Dubray Blog - DuBlog.

Short story “3:10pm” published in With Confetti Magazine.

Poem “Headlights” published in Two Meter Review Magazine.

Flash fiction piece “New Job” and poem “The Ice Skating Rink in Belfast” published in Tír na nÓg Magazine.

Photo “Night Lights” published in The Waxed Lemon Magazine.

Short Story “Humming” published in The Silver Apples Magazine.

Poem “Shared Toys” published in The Mouldy Bike Magazine.

Essay “Falling in Love During a Pandemic” published in Strange Times Magazine.

Short story “Fingertips” published in Sonder Magazine Issue Two.

Read short story “3:10pm” at the Irish Writers Centre Culture Night Event.

Shortlisted for Marian Keyes Young Writer Award with the Irish Writers Centre.

Poem “The Story Keeper” published in What’s It Like booklet as part of the Creative Writing module of the Children’s Literature M.Phil in Trinity College Dublin.

Selected to be a Young Writer Delegate for the Irish Writers Centre during the International Literary Festival Dublin.

Article and photograph “Performance in Literature” was published in the Dublin University Players Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 2.

Was a staff writer for University College Dublin newspaper “University Observer”.

Had three poems published (2017) and a critical commentary piece (2018) by literary magazine “The Blue Nib.”

Finalist Ireland’s Intervarsity Poetry Slam final (March 2018).

Two short stories published in the annual Caveat Lector with UCD English Literary Society (April 2017, March 2018).