Lynn Buckle
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Camberwell College of Art
Maynooth University
Lynn Buckle | |
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| Alma mater | University of Warwick Camberwell College of Art Maynooth University |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Lynn Buckle is an Irish writer. She is deaf, and her second novel, What Willow Says, won the Barbellion Prize for writers living with chronic illness or disability.[1] She is the founder of the Irish Climate Writing Group.
In February 2022 she was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.[2]
Buckle was born in Bristol, England, and studied at the University of Warwick, Camberwell School of Art and NUI Maynooth.[3] She moved to Ireland in around 1990.[4]
Career
Buckle's first published novel was The Groundsmen in 2018.[5] After writing it she offered it to several publishers before it was accepted by époque press, which she describes as "a fairly new UK indie company based in Cheltenham".[4]
Her second novel, What Willow Says, also published by époque,[6] won the 2022 Barbellion Prize for writers who live with chronic illness or a disability. It has been described as "a meditation on nature and deafness."[2]
She lost her hearing gradually[7] and now hears "my versions of sounds, delivered through my technology".[7]
In 2021 she was one of five writers to be virtual writers-in-residence in Norwich, England, during the COVID-19 pandemic, under the banner "Imagining the City".[8] During the project she wrote a short story "Ailbhe's Tale" which "draws inspiration from Norwich and Dublin's shared histories of hidden waterways through the lens of gender, power, and place."[9] and was later published as part of Arachne Press's anthology What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective.[3]
Buckle is increasingly addressing the topic of climate and is the founder of the Climate Writers' Group at the Irish Writers Centre.[7][10]
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