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Lucy Writers Announces Our New Arts Council England Funded Project, What the Water Gave Us

24th February 202224th February 2022  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers is proud to announce its new Arts Council England funded mentoring project, What the Water Gave Us, for emerging women writers.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, Non-FictionTagged: Arts Council England, Arts Council England National Lottery Grant, Brexit Britain, Burley Fisher, Claire Hynes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Emma Claire Sweeney, Emma Hanson, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Immigration, Irenosen Okojie, Jenny Chamarette, Lucy Cavendish College, migrant writers, Migration, Pandemic, Rojbîn Arjen Yigit, Selin Genc, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Shirley Ahura, So Mayer, Susan Barker, Takeaway Press, The Ruppin Agency, water, What the Water Gave Us, Yen Ooi, Yvonne Battle-Felton

Matwaala 2021, Poets of Colour Festival: African American Women Poets

12th May 202112th May 2021  Lucy Writers

For their Poets of Colour Festival, Matwaala 2021 brings together five prize-winning African American women poets – Dorothy Randall Gray, Cynthia Manick, Loretta Diane Walker, Marsha Nelson and Anastasia Tomkin. Here, Lucy Writers showcases their brilliant, moving work, which ranges from a celebration of Black motherhood through to the final moments of George Floyd’s life.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, PoetryTagged: African American women poets, Black Lives Matter, black women, BLM 2020, daughters, Gandhi, George Floyd, John Lewis, Matwaala, Motherhood, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, Usha Akella, women writers

‘This is Lime, this is Gul Mohar, this is Mountain laurel’ by Usha Akella

12th May 202022nd May 2020  Usha Akella

Our Poetry editor, Usha Akella, recalls her time studying for an MSt. in Creative Writing at Cambridge and considers how the flora and fauna of the city inspired her writing and helped her navigate and connect with a new place.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Environment, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, PoetryTagged: Byron, Cambridge, Daffodils, Dev Patel, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Lime Trees, Lucy Cavendish College, Madingley Hall, Poetry, Ramanujam, Romantic Poets, Usha Akella, Wordsworth

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 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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    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
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    By Lisa Goodrum
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    By Rachel Ashenden
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