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Apr 2021

Date	Time	Event
22/04/2021 - 09/07/2021	All Day	Faber Academy - Writing Short Stories (Online) Learn the craft of short story writing, then create and polish new stories with an award-winning writer. Includes two masterclasses, led by Lucy Caldwell. The course if part of the Faber Academy The online course will run from 22nd of April - 9 July 2021 and is limited to 12 Places. Sessions will take place [...]

May 2021

Date	Time	Event
13/05/2021	6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	In Conversation: Louise Kennedy & Lucy Caldwell The writer Lucy Caldwell will be in conversation with Ciaran Carson Fellow, Louise Kennedy, talking about Louise's debut collection. Louise Kennedy is a prose writer, and one of the inaugural Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellows at Queen’s. Her publication record includes fiction in journals such as The Tangerine, The Stinging Fly, Banshee and [...]
23/05/2021	4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	International Literature Festival Dublin Two exciting voices in Irish fiction discuss the heartbreak and hope of modern life, and what lies beneath the surface when writing women. Acclaimed novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell’s new short story collection Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. Her stories of love, [...]

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“Windows on Worlds”: commemorating the Belfast Blitz

"Windows on Worlds" written and read by Lucy Caldwell on the 80th anniversary of the Belfast Blitz, on RTE's Sunday Miscellany ...
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West Cork Literary Festival

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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Northern Irish Voices

Lucy Caldwell discusses her most recent publication, Intimacies (2021), in conversation with Keith Hopper ...
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Faber to publish “These Days”.

Faber is to publish Lucy Caldwell's first novel in nearly a decade, These Days. Angus Cargill, publishing director, bought world all language rights from Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White, and will publish in hardback in March 2022. Set in Belfast, the novel follows the lives of two sisters during the Second World War. The synopsis explains: "April, 1941. Belfast has ...
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Irish Literary Society: Autumn Journal / Spring Journal

Louis MacNeice’s 'Autumn Journal', written August to December 1938, was an immediate personal response to the public events of those months and the mood on the streets. ‘It is the nature of this poem,’ a prefatory note declared, ‘to be neither final nor balanced.’ In 'Spring Journal', written between March and late August 2020, the novelist Jonathan Gibbs replies to ...
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Lucy Caldwell and Jan Carson on Woman’s Hour

Is Ireland going through a ‘golden age of literature’ when it comes to women’s writing? Sally Rooney and Anna Burns are hugely popular but what is behind this boom in new writing? Writers Lucy Caldwell and Jan Carson discuss ...
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