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Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes is the author The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library. The Alternatives is her third novel.

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Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

The Alternatives

Caoilinn Hughes

‘What does that mean, vegan cheese? asks a lady who’d had no query about amuse-bouche.’

An extract from The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes.

Fiction | Issue 153 padlock
Fiction | Issue 153 padlock

Creep

Caoilinn Hughes

‘She hadn’t been skiing since her master’s in Iceland, back when glaciers had some heft to them, though slackened and fast-diminishing as the legs of a retired cyclist.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Notes on Craft

Caoilinn Hughes

‘I like to feel contradicted and conflicted by characters.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

A Woman of No Information

Caoilinn Hughes

‘Maud tries to understand how her role is being rewritten on the spot – who the woman might be.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

My Biggest Insecurity About the Garden

Caoilinn Hughes

‘Pathos is suffering. But is it suffering to realize a dream, however puny?’ New fiction by Caoilinn Hughes.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Best Book of 2005: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty

Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes on why Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is the best book of 2005

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

When Poets Write Novels

Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes on the ten best novels written by poets.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Prime

Caoilinn Hughes

‘Miss Lynch teaches us such things. Things that are difficult to know.’

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