Event overview
BBC National Short Story prize winners Lucy Caldwell and Naomi Wood read from and discuss their work
Lucy Caldwell was is the author of four novels, most recently These Days, which won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, several stage plays and radio dramas, three collections of short stories, Multitudes, Intimacies, and Openings, and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award for “All the People Were Mean and Bad” and in 2022 she was the recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Naomi Wood is an award-winning author who writes about motherhood, the modern workplace and family. She is the author of three novels: The Godless Boys, Mrs. Hemingway and The Hiding Game (Picador), and her début story collection This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things is out now with Orion. Her story ‘Comorbidities’ won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Prize. Other stories have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, and the ALCS/Tom Gallon Society of Authors Prize. She lives in Norwich where she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 Oct 2024 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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