On childhood eye surgery, spirit animals and ways of seeing Lucy Caldwell on RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany| www.lucycaldwell.com
‘It took me more than a decade of trying to write short stories before any of them worked. It was long and gruelling’ (from The Irish Times) I retype everything. It’s my most consistent, most abiding editorial practice – and it has good literary provenance; I got the idea from Joan Didion, who, in turn, got it from Ernest Hemingway. I edit as I’m writing, of course, within drafts, and my last [...]| www.lucycaldwell.com
Lucy will be joining Jan Carson and Michelle Gallen for a series of events in the United States entitled ‘A New Chapter: Women Writing Northern Ireland Now’ This ambitious 3-city touris in partnership with Columbia University, NYU, Georgetown and Villanova, supported by Northern Ireland Bureau. The tour, presented as part of the Consulate’s commemorations of…| Lucy Caldwell
Faber has announced Openings by Lucy Caldwell, a powerful new collection from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Multitudes and Intimacies, and winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021. Publishing Director Angus Cargill bought World All Languages from Peter Straus at RCW. Publication is scheduled for 16 May 2024, when Faber will also publish…| Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell’s These Days won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize, Here, she talks about research, inspiration, and how her 8-year-old son and writing in lockdown made her realise history was being made in the present (interview by Rebecca Salt for the Walter Scott Prize) I have loved historical fiction since I first read Hilary Mantel’s…| Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell was shortlisted for her collection, Intimacies. She was born in Belfast in 1981. She is the author of three novels, several stage plays and radio dramas and two collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad’,…| Lucy Caldwell
A year before he died, EM Forster sent a parcel to Christopher Isherwood containing the manuscript of his novel, Maurice. The first draft of the novel, a story of homosexual love, had been completed almost 60 years earlier, but had remained unpublished. Homosexuality was still a criminal offence in England until 1967, and Forster had…| Lucy Caldwell