Three City US Tour
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 the 25th Anniversary of the ...
Openings: Thirteen Stories
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 a special exclusive edition for ...
Walter Scott Prize Interview
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 A Place of Greater Safety ...
The Edge Hill Short Story Prize: Interview
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’, and she has also won ...
How EM Forster inspired Lucy Caldwell to finish her story
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The first draft of the novel, a story of homosexual love, had been completed almost 60 years earlier, but had remained unpublished.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 been an impressionable teenager during ...
Storytellers: Radio Ulster
These Days is being serialised on Radio Ulster's Storytellers Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing that were the Belfast Blitz. Lucy ...