Lynn Buckle

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.

Lynn Buckle
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity of Warwick
Camberwell College of Art
Maynooth University
OccupationNovelist

In February 2022 she was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.[2]

Early life

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] and

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 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 Irish Writers Climate Group at the Irish Writer's Centre.[7]

Selected publications
  • Buckle, Lynn (2018). The Groundsmen. ISBN 978-1999896027.
  • Buckle, Lynn (2022). What Willow Says. ISBN 978-1838059286.
  • Buckle, Lynn (2021). "Ailbhe's Tale". In Kelly, Lisa; Stone, Sophie (eds.). What Meets the Eye: a Deaf Perspective. Arachne Press. ISBN 9781913665487.

References
  1. Bayley, Sian (12 February 2022). "Buckle wins Barbellion Prize for 'powerful' novel What Willow Says". The Bookseller. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  2. "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful on stage, Barbellion prize-winning author Lynn Buckle, singer-conductor Barbara Hannigan". BBC. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  3. "Lynn Buckle". Arachne Press. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  4. "The Groundsmen by Lynn Buckle". Writing.ie. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2022. has spent the last thirty years in Ireland
  5. "Rathangan's Lynn Buckle launches debut novel". www.leinsterleader.ie. 6 October 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  6. "What Willow Says". époque press. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  7. Buckle, Lynn (25 June 2021). "The Last Sounds: how writing my novel helped me accept my own deafness". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  8. "Imagining The City: Five writers, one month". National Centre for Writing. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  9. "Ailbhe's Tale by Lynn Buckle". National Centre for Writing. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
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