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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a celebration of the short story to mark the publication of Jan Carson’s The Last Resort. Jan is joined by fellow Irish short story writers whose new collections are published this year – Lucy Caldwell, Adrian Duncan, Louise Kennedy, and John Patrick McHugh ...
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Lucy Caldwell talks to Hedwig Schwall about narrative perspective in general and you-narrations in particular, about the influence of James Joyce and Lucia Berlin on her short story collections Multitudes and Intimacies and about family dynamics. She reflects on motherhood and autobiographical writing, on the act of choosing love over fear, and on the power of literature to hold a space for its readers. She also discusses the Belfast author ...
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