Lucy Caldwell

Ah, thank you so much! Seeing this has made my day - I’m very grateful!

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

And with a shiny new @stingingfly.bsky.social to show for it! Thank you, Swithun, total joy for me having you on the courses x

Ah, thank you so much, Caragh. I would have loved to share that with Lexie. It’s so kind of you to get in touch and I hope you’re doing ok x

Short Stories I: An Introduction to the Form – 4 September 2025 | Faber Academy Learn the craft of short story writing, then create and polish new stories of your own with an award-winning writer.

My @faberacademy.bsky.social autumn course on the short story is now open for booking! Places go fast and are limited so do take a look if you’re interested. Hope to see you there!

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Sunday Miscellany: Seeing Things, by Lucy Caldwell On childhood eye surgery, spirit animals and ways of seeing

I’m so sorry to hear this, Jacqui - and you have my full sympathies too, I recorded a piece for RTÉ radio on my childhood eye surgeries… Here is a link if you’re interested. But inhope the issues are resolved very very soon www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

Yes! I adore The Long View… Falling one of the few I haven’t read, but ordering now, as well as the Trapidos. Heaven - thank you both!

This sounds wonderful - one of the happiest reading experiences of my life was following people grow up through the Cazalet Chronicles… Thanks, David!

Thank you for this, Jacqui - a writer I’m yet to read too, but this sounds absolutely perfect summer reading!

You’re so kind, Ruth, thank you! x

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

Thank you so much, Ian! A total pleasure!

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!

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!

Thank you so much, Máire! x

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
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A new novel! Brilliant news, congratulations. Would love a proof copy when they’re ready! xx

Anakana, thank you so much! I really hope we get the chance to speak together some time soon - I loved sharing a stage and a conversation with you.

Hi Niamh, it was so lovely to see you again at the Crescent, and to hear about all of the pieces so magically falling into place for you! Good luck with the move! ✨

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.

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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These Days reviewed in the New York Times today!

This is absolutely the zombie book I had no idea I needed! So glad to hear you loved it too!

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.

It really is, hope you enjoy it!

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!

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

Thank you!

Now there’s a short story title, and a subject matter worthy of Schulzian rapture…

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.

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