In our Northern Ireland Writers Day 2 evening panel discussion, in partnership with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), we celebrated some of the finest Northern Irish writers working across form and genre today. Led by RSL Fellow Lucy Caldwell, sci-fi novelist Ian McDonald, Irish language children’s writer Máire Zepf, performance poet Abby Oliveira, and crime writer Steve Cavanagh discussed their work, routes into writing and the Northern Irish ...
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"The second-person narrator, when done badly, is the form of narrator that irritates me the most": Lucy Caldwell on how to use "you" in fiction ...
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Lucy talks to Tom Suthcliffe on Front Row about her short story "All the People were Mean and Bad", winner of the BBC Short Story Prize. You can hear the full story in a recording here ...
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Doreen Bates is a truly remarkable woman: ahead of and unvanquished by her time. Born in Plymouth in 1906, she was posted to Belfast as a Tax Inspector in 1941, where she survived the Belfast Blitz, documenting it meticulously for the Mass Observation project, as “Diarist 5245”, and in her own private journals. A selection of Doreen’s diaries were published by Viking in 2016 as Diary of a Wartime Affair, ...
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Lucy discusses her new collection Intimacies  on RTE Radio 1's "Arena" ...
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Elizabeth Day talks to Lisa McInerney and Lucy Caldwell, two young writers born in the same year from different side of the Irish border. 100 years since partition, they discuss how a literary culture once defined by exile and sectarian identities is being reconfigured in exciting new ways today. (listen at the BBC) Book List – Sunday 23 May and Thursday 27 May The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney ...
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Jan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Adrian Duncan, Louise Kennedy & John Patrick McHugh discuss their recent collections of stories as part of the West Cork Literary Festival ...
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Lucy Caldwell discusses her most recent publication, Intimacies (2021), in conversation with Keith Hopper ...
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