Lucy Caldwell
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social
Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings, and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
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
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 ✨
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
📸 2 & 3 by Tracy Zinsou
June 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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
📸 2 & 3 by Tracy Zinsou
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
Next Friday lunchtime at @faberbooks.bsky.social HQ! Rooftop, drinks, short stories - bliss. If you’re in London, come along!
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
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!
June 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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!
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
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.
These Days reviewed in the New York Times today!
May 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
These Days reviewed in the New York Times today!
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
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.
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
May 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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
The paperback of Openings is officially published and out in the world today!
May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The paperback of Openings is officially published and out in the world today!
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
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!
Hot off the press, the new paperback edition of Openings!
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hot off the press, the new paperback edition of Openings!
New York is gorgeous in the spring sunshine, the blue skies, the blossom, everything springing to life
April 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New York is gorgeous in the spring sunshine, the blue skies, the blossom, everything springing to life
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
A few days in NYC for the US launch of These Days, book signings across the city and an event at Glucksman Ireland House!
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
These Days is published in the US today! I love this cover, a detail from a painting by Scottish artist Alberto Morocco.
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
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!
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
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!
I wrote a small piece for the @irishtimes.com tribute to Jennifer Johnston. Forever grateful!
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I wrote a small piece for the @irishtimes.com tribute to Jennifer Johnston. Forever grateful!
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.
February 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.
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.
January 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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.
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.
January 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
Big house in the little woods! The work of several evenings, destined to be smashed in milliseconds on Christmas Day 🎄
December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Big house in the little woods! The work of several evenings, destined to be smashed in milliseconds on Christmas Day 🎄
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...
December 18, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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...
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.
December 16, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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.