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Jan 2021

Date	Time	Event
27/01/2021 - 04/04/2021	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 27th January - 14th April 2021 and is limited to 12 Places. Sessions will take place 7pm–9pm [...]

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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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Learn the Craft of the Short Story at Faber Academy

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 27th January - 14th April 2021 and is limited to 12 Places. Sessions will take place 7pm–9pm every Wednesday night for twelve ...
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Small Wonder Festival

An online panel discussion with Lucy Caldwell. Caleb Azumah Nelson and Eley Williams, shortlisted writers from this year’s BBC National Short Story Award with chaired by BBC’s Editor of Readings Di Speirs. Now in its fifteenth year, the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University is one of the most prestigious for a single short story. From the short ...
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In Conversation – Belfast Book Festival

Three talented writers from Northern Ireland – Lucy Caldwell, Paul Muldoon and Glenn Patterson – are hosted by BBC presenter and broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir in a conversation about their work and their best books of the year. From Belfast Book Festival. You can view the video at the Big Book Weekend website ...
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Lucy Caldwell goes on a wartime footing for new novel

The author has turned to the Blitz in her native Belfast while the pandemic delayed her short story anthology ‘Are you reading much during the quarantine?” asks Lucy Caldwell, sounding breathless, as if she has just run up a flight of stairs — though, in reality, it’s how she talks. The playwright novelist and short-story writer has been in lockdown ...
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