Here’s your lucky chance to come along to Lucy Caldwell’s launch of her debut short story collection Multitudes. Here’s a little more about Lucy – it’s pretty amazing.

“Lucy Caldwell is the author of three novels and several stage plays & radio dramas.

Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the BBC Stewart Parker Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Imison Award, a Fiction Uncovered Award and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Her most recent novel, All the Beggars Riding, was chosen for Belfast’s One City One Book campaign in 2013 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.

Her debut play, Leaves, premiered at Druid Theatre’s Chapel Lane and the Royal Court Upstairs in 2007. Subsequent plays include Guardians and Notes to Future Self, and she is currently working on a version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters set in 1990s Belfast.

She was shortlisted for the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award for her short story ‘Escape Routes’ and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Award (Canada & Europe) in 2014 with ‘Killing Time’.”

If love short stories and you’d like to come along write to the email on the invite.