Lucy Caldwell

Jul 15, 2024 | thegoodwebguide.co.uk | Kate Weinberg |Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Katherine May |Lucy Caldwell

Summer holidays present the perfect time to dive into the stack of books that have been piling up all year by the bedside awaiting elusive spare hours. Here are our top recommendations to devour and thus ensure a diverting summer on the beach. There’s Nothing Wrong With Her By Kate WeinbergWhen Vita falls ill with a sickness that nobody can diagnose, a 500-year-old Renaissance poet begins to appear by her bedside.

Apr 30, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Lucy Caldwell

I retype everything. It’s my most consistent, most abiding editorial practice – and it has good literary provenance; I got the idea from Joan Didion, who, in turn, got it from Ernest Hemingway. I edit as I’m writing, of course, within drafts, and my last few passes over a story take the form of obsessive reading, attuned to the difference removing a comma might make. But the real magic happens with retyping.

Oct 26, 2023 | noalibis.com | Lucy Caldwell

** Limited Numbered Signed Hardback – Special No Alibis Limited Edition contains extra story ‘The Chosen’ **Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story AwardWinner of the 2022 E. M. Forster Award‘I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new.’Since the publication of Multitudes, her debut collection, Lucy Caldwell has been celebrated as one of today’s pre-eminent short story writers.

Aug 31, 2023 | 1854.photography | Lucy Caldwell

All images from the series ‘Hannah’ © Enda Bowe Award-winning novelist Lucy Caldwell worked with Bowe on ‘Days’, a new story to accompany his show at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian AcademyYou measure these days by the span of their light. Today the sun rose at 07.59 and will set at 16.20. That’s already seven minutes earlier, and nineteen later, than the year’s first day. By the end of the month it will be 07.40 and 16.47 – forty-six more minutes than now.

Jun 15, 2023 | inkl.com | Lucy Caldwell

Her win was announced at a public event on Thursday which also celebrated the short list, with some of the authors attending from as far away as Australia. Judges described her novel as a “pitch-perfect, engrossing narrative ringing with emotional truth” and praised the story for its “great tenderness” amid “great violence”.