Hello everyone! We’ve had a lot of exciting things going on behind the scenes here, and wanted to share some of the updates with you.
Firstly, we wanted to wish our co-founder Ruth Ennis well on her next adventure! Ruth was a co-founder and co-editor of the journal for our first year, and we’re excited to see what she does next!
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that Maggie Masterson is joining the Paper Lanterns team as production manager. Maggie was a children’s and young adult librarian in the Chicago suburbs, where she also sat on the committee for the Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award. She moved to Ireland to complete her M.Phil. in Children’s Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where she studied the illustration of fairy tales, and thought about books as souvenirs of childhood. She conducted bibliographic research in the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books. She is currently working on her PhD at Trinity, researching the construction of girlhood in the children’s literature archive.
We’re excited to let you know we are changing how we run our Book Club! From Issue 4 onwards, we’re creating a space for readers to come together and have interactive discussions about each issue’s selected book. We’ll also have author interviews, and there will be a chance for our readers to ask their questions too! Readers are welcome from all over the world. We can’t wait for you to join us, and we’ve a wonderful author lined up for Issue 4!
Finally, we’d like to give a huge thanks to Rachel Drohan, who helped us overhaul our book club. Rachel recently completed a 3 weeks internship with us as part of her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Writing and Literature.
Don’t forget, you can save 10% on our back issues with our bundle deal!
We hope everyone is reading, writing, and staying safe. We’ll be sharing our contributors for issue 4 soon, so watch this space!
