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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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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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Rachel Dean’s Big Ask

Lucy Caldwell on her childhood in east Belfast and loss of much-wanted pregnancy In this week's interview Rachel Dean talks to author Lucy Caldwell (38), who grew up in Belfast and now lives in Whitechapel, east London, with her husband Tom Routh (38) and their two children, William (5) and Orla Rose (2) Q: Tell us about your childhood A: ...
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Being Various: New Irish Short Stories

Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started by the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors Kevin Barry, Deirdre Madden and Joseph O'Connor. Eimear McBride, Kit de Waal and Sally Rooney are among the writers to feature in Being ...
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Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

Lucy Caldwell is among the authors selected for the new anthology, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, "a literary treasure trove" of "30 great short stories published in the last 20 years",. The anthology has been edited and curated Philip Hensher who - following on from two-volume collection The Penguin Book of the British Short Story published ...
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