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Lucy Caldwell
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social
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Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings, and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
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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 ✨
October 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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One last-minute space for this - starting next Thursday! ✨
August 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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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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.
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July 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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
June 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Next Friday lunchtime at @faberbooks.bsky.social HQ! Rooftop, drinks, short stories - bliss. If you’re in London, come along!
June 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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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!
June 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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!
June 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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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June 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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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.
June 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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...
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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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June 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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These Days reviewed in the New York Times today!
May 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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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.
May 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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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!
May 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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.
May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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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!
May 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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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 💙📚

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lucycaldwell.bsky.social Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · Apr 24
Hot off the press, the new paperback edition of Openings!
April 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Hot off the press, the new paperback edition of Openings!
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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April 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A few days in NYC for the US launch of These Days, book signings across the city and an event at Glucksman Ireland House!
April 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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These Days is published in the US today! I love this cover, a detail from a painting by Scottish artist Alberto Morocco.
April 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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!
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April 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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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!
March 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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“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...
SMALL LIKE A BULLET (1): LUCY CALDWELL
One writer, one story, one in-depth masterclass
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March 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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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!
March 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I wrote a small piece for the @irishtimes.com tribute to Jennifer Johnston. Forever grateful!
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM