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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hello! If you’re near Dover, I’m giving a free reading at Dover library this coming Saturday, 2-3pm. Come and say hi and get a book signed!

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Justjillian @justjillian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Catch up with our latest #Bookcited! #podcast episode : @librariesni.bsky.social We chat to @lucycaldwell.bsky.social about her new collection Devotions - check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/pb-p7cbz-...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I often wondered what I’d choose for my @theguardian.com Books of a lifetime… and then I found out… www.theguardian.com/books

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If the New Yorker says so, it must be true… Devotions is out in the US next week - along with Multitudes, Intimacies *and* Openings!

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Helen Cullen @wordsofhelen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

July 14th: Anatomy of a Story - a short story writing workshop with the award-winning Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anatomy-of...

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Anatomy of a Story with Lucy Caldwell

Part of the Brunel University New Writers Programme

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In today's Irish Times, an essay I wrote about the winter solstice at Newgrange, the importance of our sacred sites, about surrender, and about finding light in the darkness ✨

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The FT Books pages looking good this morning… and the Irish Times not too shabby either 🙏

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Devotions officially launched! Thank you so much to all who came to the Crescent Arts Centre to celebrate, to David and No Alibis for the books, and Alex Clark for the consummate chairing!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Devotions is published next week - here are some of the upcoming UK/Ire tour dates!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

London friends, a couple of upcoming events for Devotions! Hope to see you there.

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I wrote an essay about my early life in Irish books for SJPLit’s Substack. You can read it here! sjplit.substack.com/p/from-bront...

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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🕯️New episode with @lucycaldwell.bsky.social is out now! It’s not often I’m left speechless, but Lucy’s capacity to meditate on life, love, and death had me grasping for words We were speaking about DEVOTIONS ahead of next week’s release @faberbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Belfast friends, if you’d like to come to the launch of Devotions at the Crescent on Mon 20 April, the link to reserve your free ticket is below! I’ll be in conversation with the inestimable Alex Clark, and we’ll also be launching this year’s festival programme ✨ crescentarts.org/events/devot...

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Devotions by Lucy Caldwell

Ahead of the Belfast Book Festival 2026, The Crescent is offering a taste of Festival events in a new series called Bookmarks...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm happy to have contributed an essay to @efacis.bsky.social Kaleidoscope project on Irish spirituality - honouring my RE teacher Miss Williams, who, like Miss Jean Brodie, led us out rather than shutting us in… kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications...

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The Prime of Miss Joan Williams

The Prime of Miss Joan Williams I was born in Belfast in 1981, the eldest child of what was then called a “mixed marriage” – one parent Protestant, one Catholic. My father had been a Church of Ireland...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Devotions is out in just 2 months! If you’d like to preorder a copy @waterstones.bsky.social are running a 25% promotion from today 17 Feb- midnight 20 Feb, just enter FEB26 at the checkout. I’ve also been signing lots of pretty candle bookplates for your local indie preorders!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I’m thrilled to be able to share this with you! My fourth collection, Devotions, will be published next April 23rd. If you would like a proof copy please contact @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

One last-minute space for this - starting next Thursday! ✨

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Some pics from Faber’s rooftop event to mark the p’bk of Openings! In conversation with my long-term editor Angus Cargill. This new edition turns out to go beautifully with high blue skies. 📸 2 & 3 by Tracy Zinsou

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Next Friday lunchtime at @faberbooks.bsky.social HQ! Rooftop, drinks, short stories - bliss. If you’re in London, come along!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Come and read & write short stories with me! Booking for my @faberacademy.bsky.social autumn masterclass series will open shortly but you need to be on the waiting list to have a chance of a place, so contact them to register your interest now. Hope to see you there!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This year’s Belfast Book Festival was just brilliant. Here are some highlights! Celebrating @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, in conv. with Tessa Hadley, in conv. with Sam McAlister & Lucia Osborne-Crowley and plenty of @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social time!

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

On this morning's #sundaymiscellany 8 June 2025 Ways of Seeing: live at Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Glenn Patterson Emily Byers-Ferrian Maria McManus Trú Scott Flanigan Sinéad McKenna @rteradio1.bsky.social

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Brilliant to be back in Belfast for the launch of the Belfast Book Festival run by the Crescent Arts Centre. Here I am with fellow Patrons Glenn Patterson and Paul Muldoon; and with Wendy Erskine, co-judge of the Mairtín Crawford Award, and this year’s winner Sarah Davy.

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David Roy @droyirishnews.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Great chatting with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social about this year's Belfast Book Festival at Crescent Arts Centre, where she'll be discussing her debut novel The Benefactors with @lucycaldwell.bsky.social and taking part in several other events... www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

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Wendy Erskine on her debut novel: ‘It felt really nice - like being in a deep bath’

David Roy chats to the acclaimed author about taking part in this year’s Belfast Book Festival and making the leap from short stories to long-form fiction

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

These Days reviewed in the New York Times today!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Yesterday was a great day for books! This @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is brilliant, brutally sad; I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. A collection of stories won the International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social !! And a first outing of @elainefeeney.bsky.social’s new book, out imminently.

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing by @annmorgan.bsky.social is the Swim in a Pond in the Rain for 2025! Details here, pre-orders open with @renardpress.com

As George Saunders’ A Swim in in the Pond in the Rain was to writing, so this new book by Ann Morgan the world is to reading. I was lucky enough to see an early version in manuscript form earlier in the year, and I’ve written an introduction for the published book, out with Renard Press in October of this year (or September if you pre-order an exclusive limited edition!)

Ann and I met when we were still teenagers – in the first year of our undergraduate degree. We became friends because we both wanted to be writers, and we’d meet up for coffee, or for a glass of wine, and discuss the books we had read, and the books we would write, and what our lives would be like then… A quarter of a century later, we still meet up for coffee or a glass of wine to discuss the books we’ve read and the books we want to write and what our lives will finally be like then.

I took part in one of the first “Incomprehension Workshops” that Ann ran as she was developing this book – she describes the workshops in detail here, how readers react when faced with pieces of prose for which they seem to have no coordinates, and how we can quell or assuage the panicked parts of us trained to need to pin down meaning, like butterflies on a Victorian collector’s board. The workshop was an exhilarating experience – and Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing is an exhilarating read. It’s enriching, mind- and world-expanding; sly, playful and provocative, and often revelatory. As I say in my introduction, it is a book I wish I could have read at nineteen – it’s a book I want everyone to read now.

Renard is publishing it with a multitude of covers designed by Will Dady – there’s no single way of reading, so why shouldn’t there be a glorious array of covers? This is the one they’ve asked me to share with you today. Pre-order, enjoy!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The paperback of Openings is officially published and out in the world today!

The brightly-coloured paperback of Openings held up against a colourful street and blue sky, all that’s missing is an aperol spritz and a sunlounger.

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A lovely commission - I drew on my childhood learning Suzuki violin and teen years playing in youth orchestras to write the short story for this year’s Proms Guide. Out now!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A beautiful edition of an excellent collection of stories! I’m a big fan of Lucy’s work. Here’s my review of OPENINGS, should you need further convincing. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hot off the press, the new paperback edition of Openings!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A few days in NYC for the US launch of These Days, book signings across the city and an event at Glucksman Ireland House!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

These Days is published in the US today! I love this cover, a detail from a painting by Scottish artist Alberto Morocco.

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David Roy @droyirishnews.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Great chatting to @lucycaldwell.bsky.social about this Belfast Books Festival & Crescent Arts Centre competition platforming new writing talents - only one week left to enter! www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A flying visit to Belfast for a very special event - in conversation with Gary Lightbody for the home launch of his memoir, in association with the Belfast Book Festival. This year’s festival will run 5-12th June with the programme launched late April - all events pay what you can or free!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“One writer, one story, one in-depth masterclass”: on Weds 9 April at 7pm online I’ll be taking a Word Factory masterclass talking you through the writing of my short story “Hamlet, a love story” (which you’ll get to read in advance). More info & tix here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-like...

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SMALL LIKE A BULLET (1): LUCY CALDWELL

One writer, one story, one in-depth masterclass

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'm not sure how niche this is (am guessing, very) but I've just finished a 5,000 word story about the minute and a quarter that Julie Andrews' Maria and Christopher Plummer's Captain spend dancing the Ländler. Sixty years of the Sound of Music this month!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I wrote a small piece for the @irishtimes.com tribute to Jennifer Johnston. Forever grateful!

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just arrived - my first two collections of stories in Chinese! Multitudes has become Reasons to Stay in this World, and Intimacies is All the People Were Mean and Bad. Both are out now with Archipel Press, in translations by Wei Liu & with a foreword, for which I'm so grateful, by my friend Yan Ge.

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The annual Mairtín Crawford Awards for emerging writers held by the Belfast Book Festival are open for entry! Details here, and details also of the *free* online workshop @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social & I will be running on Sat 15 Feb! belfastbookfestival.com/workshops

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belfast book festival workshops

The Belfast Book Festival features a unique, diverse and highly creative programme.

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It’s official! THESE DAYS will be out in the US on 8 April with Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Zando, SJPLit. I love the ethos of the imprint and I LOVE the US cover - a detail from a painting by Scottish artist Alberto Morocco.

sarahjessicaparker So very pleased to bring THESE DAYS to readers. Our next SJP Lit release is Lucy Caldwell's already award-winning novel, taking place over four nights during the Belfast Blitz in 1941.
Lucy Caldwell's characters leap from the page in all their joy and devastation. It has already garnered heaps of praise from some of our most cherished writers.
"Adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying; These Days is a novel of real substance." — Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall You can pre-order now at the link in my story to be the first to receive a copy.
Happy, happy reading,
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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is one of those poems that taught me everything. We are all the lesser for the loss of Michael Longley yesterday. I’m grateful to have known his kindness and benevolence and to have been able to learn from him.

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A Winter Christmas

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Big house in the little woods! The work of several evenings, destined to be smashed in milliseconds on Christmas Day 🎄

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A powerful new story about damage, abjection and the erotic in n+1 by @crawjill.bsky.social who’s slowly building an impressive archive of meticulous and disturbing short fiction with the magazine. Link to the story here: www.nplusonemag.com/authors/craw...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If I said this was a book-length poem written in the form of an email to a letting agent, it would be true, and yet not capture anything of Ella Frears’ incredible book’s propulsive force. I just couldn’t stop reading it. Loved its fierce, wild, scathing energy. Out now with Rough Trade Books.

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Very grateful for this from James Patterson for RTÉ. No Alibis published a ltd ed signed hardback of Openings (with an extra story!) if you want to order one just in time for Christmas 🎄

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