{"id":513689,"date":"2025-10-20T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513689\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:10:12","slug":"local-women-take-a-creative-leap-with-new-donegal-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513689\/","title":{"rendered":"Local women take a creative leap with new Donegal anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brand-new collection of 50 stories celebrating Donegal\u2019s creative spirit will officially launch this November. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The book titled Leap is the brainchild of Ramelton artist\/designer Laura Buchanan and author\/editor Isla McGuckin from Portsalon. The fully illustrated book contains fifty original narratives, carefully curated from architects, poets, musicians, artists, writers, designers, weavers, and many more creatives with a Donegal connection.<\/p>\n

Isla and Laura said, \u201cLeap began as an idea, back in June, but it snowballed quickly. The enthusiasm from everyone we mentioned our idea to was infectious. Their encouragement motivated us to keep going, to create a book that we\u2019re both incredibly proud of and one that we hope will inspire fledgling and established creatives alike.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leap book by Laura Buchanan and Isla McGuckin<\/p>\n

Leap is brought to life by Laura\u2019s signature artwork style, colour, pattern and playful typography make the illustrated pages pop.<\/p>\n

Isla is a writer and workshop \/ community events\u2019 facilitator whose children\u2019s books have received critical acclaim for tackling some of the complex social challenges that contemporary children face.<\/p>\n

Leap will officially launch on Saturday 8th November and is available to pre-order for the pre-Christmas season here: https:\/\/laurabuchanan.ie\/products\/book-leap<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Laura and Isla are encouraging people to follow the book\u2019s journey by using the hashtag #leapbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brand-new collection of 50 stories celebrating Donegal\u2019s creative spirit will officially launch this November. The book titled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-513689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115405011323838138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}