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Booker Prize Shortlist 2020: a daring, diverse and deserving line-up of authors

12th November 202013th November 2020  Lucy Writers

Our contributors review this year’s Booker Prize shortlist and find a daring and diverse list of authors from around the world who all deserve to be celebrated.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Avni Doshi, Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize, Booker Prize 2020, Brandon Taylor, Canongate, Diane Cook, Douglas Stuart, Faber & Faber, Maata Mengiste, Man Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Busby, Oneworld Publications, Picador, The Booker Prize 2019, Tsitsi Dangarembga

Streaming in the Time of Covid-19: Curated Recommendations

29th April 202029th April 2020  Lucy Writers

As the internet will have no doubt reminded you, staying at home and catching up on some Netflix is now officially *heroic*. Here’s an eclectic mix of streaming recommendations from our contributors.

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Anne with an E, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Films, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hulu, Lagaan, Long Shot, Mad Men, netflix, Theory of Everything

Stories to Stockpile: Books to soothe, inspire & entertain during self-isolation

26th March 202029th April 2020  Lucy Writers

In these difficult, uncertain times, we’re turning to books for consolation, comfort and creative inspiration. Here are our writers’ suggestions for reading during self-isolation.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Annabel Banks, Becky Chambers, Books, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Cygnet, Dialogue Books, Dialogue Books Lounge, Edith Pattou, Edward carey, Eimear McBride, Elizabeth Goudge, Exercises in Control, Faber, Fantasy, Irenosen Okojie, JD Salinger, Little, Millie Seaward, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Nudibranch, Patsy, Philip Pulman, Season Butler, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Stories to Stockpile, Ursula K Le Guin, Yukiko Motoya

Lucy Writers’ Contributor Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019

16th October 201917th October 2019  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers are proud to announce that Gabriela Frost, a regular arts writer for the platform, has been shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019, under the category of ‘Criticism’. 

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Posted in Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Andrew O'Hagan, arts, BBC, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalism Awards 2019, criticism, Gabriela Frost, Gaby Frost, journalism, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Writers, Martha Kearney, Radio 4, Sarah Sands, Sathnam Sanghera, Student Critic of the Year 2019, Student Journalism, Today Programme

Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition Winner Announcement

28th May 201928th May 2019  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers announces the winner of its first ever Flash Fiction Competition in collaboration with Retreat West and Byte The Book, and with sponsorship by My Ly.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, GeneralTagged: Amanda Saint, Byte The Book, Competition, Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, Justine Solomons, Lucy Cavendish College, My Ly, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, Retreat West

Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival: Advice on How to Get Published

8th February 20198th February 2019  Lucy Writers

Florence Hazrat gives us the highlights of this year’s Fiction Prize Festival and offers invaluable advice to budding writers on how to get published.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy Features, ResourcesTagged: Frances Perkins, Gillian Stern, Jackie Ashley, Katy Loftus, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Laura Marshall, Lesley Sanderson, Little Brown, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize festival, Lucy Malagoni, Nelle Andrew, Penguin, Peters Fraser and Dunlop, Publishing, Sara Collins, Viking, Virago

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival

14th January 201928th January 2019  Lucy Writers

Our editor-in-chief, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, looks ahead to some of the highlights of the first ever Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival, taking place this Saturday.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy FeaturesTagged: Cambridge, Frances Maynard, Jane Eyre, Jo Browning-wroe, Kay Loftus, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Lesley Sanderson, Literature, Little Brown, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize festival, Lucy Malagoni, Miranda Doyle, Nelle Andrew, Sara Collins, Sophie Hannah, Sphere, Swan Song, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Virago
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