Lovely to see you there, Jillian!

Thank you for coming, Ian. Let me know which option you went for!

We also launched this year’s Belfast Book Festival programme - booking open now on the website. Get your tickets before they go!

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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!

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

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

I wrote an essay about my early life in Irish books for SJPLit’s Substack. You can read it here!

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Thank you, Niamh! Love that it was timely, would love to hear more. Maybe see you at the Crescent for the launch in April or book festival in June?

🕯️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

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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...

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...

Thank you so much, Ruth! x

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…

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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!

Lovely to see, Vicky, thank you! Hope it goes really well for you 💛🙏

Absolutely love this, Naomi!

Thank you!

Thank you so much, Lucy!

Thank you so much! 💛

Thank you (again)!

Thank you, Dale!

Thank you, Mairéad! 💛

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 ✨

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!