Lynn Buckle

Award-winning Deaf Irish author Lynn Buckle won the international Barbellion Prize for chronically ill & disabled authors with her second novel What Willow Says (epoque press) – a paean to the bogs, trees, and mythologies of Ireland. She is widely published and represented Ireland as a UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence at The National Centre for Writing UK. She hosts the worldwide Climate Writers at The Irish Writers Centre, Dublin.

Lynn studied at Warwick University, Camberwell School of Art, and Maynooth University. She lives in Ireland, writing, painting, and campaigning for social justice. She teaches at The Irish Writers’ Centre, ETBs, libraries, The National Centre for Writing UK, literary festivals, and guest lectures at Irish and UK universities. She specialises in creative writing, mythology, art, art history, teaching skills, contemporary literature, domestic violence, nature & climate writing, and solution-based protest writing. As host of Climate Writing at the IWC, she interviews international authors, politicians, and NGOs about the role of literature in the Anthropocene. Publications include two novels with epoque press, five anthologies, and regular articles and reviews for literary magazines and the press. See Reviews and Interviews

PUBLICATIONS

Purchase What Willow Says by Lynn Buckle Epoque Press 2021

Winner The Barbellion Prize | Critics Top Pick of the Year 2021 The Irish Times & Sunday Independent | Special Mention Saboteur Awards 2022

‘A deeply affecting love song to the bogs and trees. A powerful moving book, as much poetry as prose. Soak up its rich waters and you will never look at the world, or deafness, in the same way again’ Irish Independent

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Ce que disent les saules, the French translation of What Willow Says, published by Calmann Levy 11/2/26. Translated by Catherine Richard-Mas

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Turkish translation of What Willow Says published by PK Profilkitap 2023

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Purchase The Groundsmen by Lynn Buckle Epoque Press, 2018

‘Powerful and affecting. Lynn Buckle is a fierce and fearless new voice in Irish writing‘ ​
June Caldwell author of Room Little Darker

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Purchase Ailbhe’s Tale by Lynn Buckle What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective  Arachne Press 2021

Edited by Lisa Kelly & Sophie Stone. Introduction by Raymond Antrobus

Watch video in British Sign Language

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Walking Norwich Signage by Lynn Buckle Imagining The City The National Centre for Writing 2021

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H is for Plane by Lynn Buckle Exacting Clam No.8 – Spring 2023  Sagging Meniscus Press

Edited by Guillermo Stitch

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The Sound of Red in Green by Lynn Buckle, Massachusetts Review winter 2022 Vol 63 Issue 4

Edited by Khairani Barokka and Cyree Janelle

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Representation Matters by Lynn Buckle 2022 Writing.ie

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[A Captioned Joyce] by Lynn Buckle online 2022 print 2023 Books Ireland Magazine

Also in the Museum of Literature Ireland’s Ulysses 100, a collection created during the centenary year of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses

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Review by Lynn Buckle of Spring Tides by Fiona Gell 2022 The Irish Times

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Why Is Mythology Having a Moment? by Lynn Buckle 2019 The Irish Times

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Opposing Violence in Literature by Lynn Buckle 2018 The Irish Times

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A Writer’s Experience of Covid-19 by Lynn Buckle 2020 The Irish Times

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Brigid; A Poetry Anthology, 2020

Reading here

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Infinite Possibilities: An Anthology TU Dublin, 2020 award-winning short stories

Watch and listen to Idle Woman of the Grand Canal, from Infinite Possibilities

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Literary Collage and Polyphonic Voice; literary technique by Lynn Buckle, Oct 2020, epoque magazine

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Town Crier by Lynn Buckle Oct 2020 epoque magazine

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Red Barn by Lynn Buckle a reading from Greywood Arts Residency 2019

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AWARDS

The Barbellion Prize Winner

UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writer in Residence at The National Centre for Writing UK 2021

The John Hewitt Society Bursary 2018

Greywood Arts Carers’ Writing Bursary Award and Residency 2018/19

Short-list Red Line Short Story Award 2019

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MEMBERSHIPS

Irish Writers Centre

Royal Society of Literature

Wordsmiths Writing Group

Indulge in Writing Group

Teaching Council of Ireland   Registered Further Education tutor

AONTAS     NALA      Irish Deaf Society

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See News & Events for festival appearances and workshops