Read & Listen

Below are a number of short stories by Lucy Caldwell you can read or listen to online

All the People Were Mean and Bad

Listen to "All the People Were Mean and Bad" by Lucy Caldwell. Read by Laura Pyper ...
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Lucy Caldwell & Agnieszka Pokojska: ‘Fiction’ in Polish

Lucy Caldwell reads a very special, as-yet unpublished short story, called 'Fiction'. This episode is celebrating her long-awaited second collection of short stories, Intimacies, which is out in the UK ...
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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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Words for Things

(published in The Stinging Fly) We were talking about Monica Lewinsky. My friend had googled her, some late-night internet rabbit hole, and had realised that, when it all happened, she’d ...
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The Children

A powerful story about motherhood and loss by Lucy Caldwell for the BBC National Short Story Award Read by Jessica Raine ...
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Night Waking

from the anthology "Still Worlds Turning", published by No Alibis Press. Out of nowhere you are suddenly awake, heart pounding. Nothing. The baby is next to you in the bed, ...
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Poison

Taken from the acclaimed debut collection, Multitudes, it is a tale of master and pupil, transgression and guilt… I saw him last night. He was with a girl half his ...
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Like This

When her toddler needs to use the toilet in a café, a harassed mother of two entrusts her newborn to a friendly stranger. An original short story written and read ...
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Mayday

Written for The Pool Short Story Week. If you prefer you can listen to the story here. Ten days later, the package finally comes. It is a small, brown, padded ...
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Short Story Collections

Intimacies — stories worth the wait

Tales about motherhood, injustice and home are pared down to perfection Barry Pierce, The Sunday Times, May 23 2021, Lucy Caldwell’s latest collection of short stories, Intimacies, has taken nearly ...
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Intimacies

Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy ...
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Multitudes

From Belfast to London and back again the ten stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Glass Shore

New Island is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Last year saw ...
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Granta 135: New Irish Writing

Granta 135 is a snapshot of contemporary Ireland, which shows where one of the world's most distinguished and independent literary traditions is today. Here international stars rub shoulders with a ...
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