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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Review of ‘Intimacies’: Lucy Caldwell handles high stakes with delicate authenticity
(Niamh Campbell, Irish Independent) Intimacies, Lucy Caldwell’s second collection of short stories, follows young women interrupted by sudden, destabilising forces At a point in Lucy Caldwell’s 2013 novel All the Beggars Riding, a character is struck by the anger of a widow: if you have to ask why wives and mothers risked their own health to nurse their dying husbands ...
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Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell review – too close for comfort
An outstanding collection of short stories about the vulnerability and enlightenment of motherhood (Carrie O'Grady, The Guardian) In Making Babies, Anne Enright referred to the months after giving birth as “life in here on the other side”. The mother crosses over; she enters a new room she can’t leave, and everything is different there. In her second collection of stories, ...
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