
Caoilinn Hughes
@caoilinnhughes
Irish writer. THE ALTERNATIVES (@riverheadbooks @oneworldnews), THE WILD LAUGHTER, ORCHID & THE WASP + stories about the place. she/her
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Happy pub day jenny mustard 🙌🏻

.The Labour Party and Keir Starmer, stop pandering to corporations. The cost of this pandering is unconscionable. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…


Cuatro hermanas llevan vidas dispares y distanciadas, hasta que un día Olwen, la mayor, una geóloga atormentada por futuro del planeta, desaparece abruptamente: «Las alternativas» de Caoilinn Hughes Literature Ireland (lc.cx/FaTCRY).


It’s already been a big busy beautiful week and we’re going to squeeze this into it now too… Here comes our Summer 2025 issue… looking mighty fine. You can pre-order it now and join us for launch International Literature Festival Dublin on May 17th. stingingfly.org/product/summer…



This Thursday I’ll be in Belfast at the Cathedral1/4ArtsFest, in conversation with the brilliant Stephen Sexton, hosted by the new Seamus Heaney Centre Queen's University Belfast 🎓 at 6pm. Come along if you’re about! cqaf.com/caoilinn-hughe…


This Friday I’ll be in Dromore, County Down, for the inaugural Bridge Books Dromore Co Down 📚 Book Festival, alongside Sarah Gilmartin and Garrett Carr at 7pm Tickets here - ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/co-do…


THE ALTERNATIVES by Caoilinn Hughes is now out in paperback! 🎉 Don't miss this beautiful, complex novel about sisterhood, old wounds, and a desperately uncertain future. Start reading this warm, fiercely witty, and unexpectedly hopeful novel today: bit.ly/3rEN5KJ

First time having fiction in The Stinging Fly 🤓 which launches on Saturday International Literature Festival Dublin. It’s a short story called ‘Character Parts’. Big thanks to Lisa McInerney for liking it and editing. Can’t wait to read the issue myself.





"Two visions of what is and should be legally possible in America are now being fought for in the courts. In one, the president has the power to determine the fate of his enemies; in the other, constitutional rights must be preserved." Read Rozina Ali in The New York Review of Books:


Oggi su Robinson di Repubblica il vostro affezionatissimo scrive di «Le alternative» (Atlantide Edizioni), l’ultimo romanzo dell’irlandese Caoilinn Hughes che, per riciclare una vecchia battuta di Frankie Boyle, è brainier than Kurt Cobain’s garage ceiling.
