Lucy Caldwell

Lucy Caldwell scooped the £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during the Second World War.

Lucy Caldwell scooped the £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during the Second World War.

Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, Belfast-based author Wendy Erskine

The winning writer receives £15,000 and the four shortlisted writers are given £600 each.

1. When did you think about a career as a performance poet and what were your first steps into it? My career choice was writer and performer.

The winning writer receives £15,000 and the four shortlisted writers are given £600 each.

SALLY Rooney, Belinda McKeon, Stuart Neville and Adrian McKinty feature among an impressive list of contributors to a new collection of Irish short stories edited by award-winning Belfast novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell, published by Faber & Faber.

DERRY Girls writer Lisa McGee has been announced as one of three new fellows who will continue the legacy of Seamus Heaney's work.

REFLECTIONS on feminism and violence against women in conflict-torn 1980s Belfast feature in an essay by writer Susan McKay in a new collection of work from women writers from the north.

ACCLAIMED playwright and novelist (The Meeting Point, When They Were Missed) Lucy Caldwell has followed in the steps of Brian Friel and taken on one of the greatest Russian dramatists, Anton Chekhov.