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Author Lucy Caldwell is back with a new book These Days, about a city under siege from a vicious four day bombing campaign ...
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Open Book on BBC Radio 4

Chris Power talks with novelists Lucy Caldwell and Louise Kennedy about their new novels, both set in Belfast at intense moments of 20th century history, both treatments of women's lives at a time of war and conflict: Lucy Caldwell's These Days is the story of sisters Emma and Audrey during the terrifying Belfast Blitz of 1941, while Louise Kennedy's Trespasses ...
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Northern Ireland Writer’s Day
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 ...
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Masterclass: How to write short stories
"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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The Diaries of Doreen Bates: Lucy Caldwell in conversation with Dr. Margaret Esiri
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 ...
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BBC National Short Story Award 2021

For the third year in a row, Lucy Caldwell has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 Listen to "All the People Were Mean and Bad" by Lucy Caldwell Read by Laura Pyper. New voices dominate the 2021 BBC NSSA shortlist as three-time nominee Lucy Caldwell is joined by Dublin-born novelist, playwright and screenwriter Rory Gleeson; Orange ...
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