Caoilinn Hughes is a poet, short story writer and novelist. Her poetry collection, Gathering Evidence (Carcanet, 2014) won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award in 2015. Her debut novel, Orchid & the Wasp (Oneworld / Hogarth, 2018) won the 2019 Collyer Bristow Prize, was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Award and the Butler Literary Award, and was longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020. In 2018, she won The Moth Short Story Prize for her story ‘Psychobabble’. In 2019 she won an O. Henry Award for her short story ‘Prime. Her second novel, The Wild Laughter (Oneworld 2020), won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021, and was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards' Novel of the Year 2020, the RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners' Choice Award, the Dalkey Literary Award, and was longlisted for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. She is the 2021 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

Caoilinn Hughes Warwick Thursday 25th November 2021 13;30-14:30