“In ways it was a normal childhood…and yet”
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(Irish Times) In Lucy Caldwell’s forthcoming novel, These Days, she describes bombed-out Belfast – the fire “cascading” into terraced houses, the bank so badly damaged it must be dynamited before it collapses, and street after street which has been completely destroyed. “Belfast is finished, people say. There is no way we can come back from this,” she writes. This was not the Troubles but the Belfast Blitz, a devastating series ...
‘There is still so many more stories about the Troubles that need to be told’
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Writer Lucy Caldwell on about her love for short stories and why we should celebrate our homegrown talent Aine Toner for the Belfast Telegraph It is a pleasure to speak with Lucy Caldwell, award winning novelist, playwright and short story writer, someone who is keen to promote the variety of Northern Irish creative talent. er writing career has been varied and significant, delivering personable, believable works that have captured critics ...
‘God saved Noah, but were all the other people really mean and bad?’
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Belfast-born writer Lucy Caldwell is a well established name on the Northern Irish literary scene and most recently won the BBC National Short Story Award. She chats to JOANNE SAVAGE about belief, motherhood, creativity and the drunkenness of things being various By Joanne Savage East Belfast born novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell recently won the BBC National Short Story Prize for 'All The People Were Mean and Bad' East Belfast ...
Northern Ireland Writer’s Day
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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 ...
Masterclass: How to write short stories
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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 ...
Lucy on BBC4 Front Row
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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 ...
The Diaries of Doreen Bates: Lucy Caldwell in conversation with Dr. Margaret Esiri
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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, ...