Caoilinn Hughes

@CaoilinnHughes

Irish writer. THE WILD LAUGHTER (2020) ORCHID & THE WASP (2018) GATHERING EVIDENCE (2014) Rep

waterstones.com/book/the-wild-…
Joined November 2012
388 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @CaoilinnHughes

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @CaoilinnHughes

  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 21

    The Dylan Thomas Prize is one of my favourite prizes for discovering beloved books. I can't believe that THE WILD LAUGHTER is longlisted for it. 😭

    📚THE 2021 LONGLIST📚 We are thrilled to unveil the 12 titles that make up this year's Swansea University () Dylan Thomas Prize longlist. What a depth of incredible talent! PRESS RELEASE -
    40 replies 11 retweets 188 likes
    Undo
  2. 6 hours ago

    This is great.

    This is a COOL thing: we're launching a monthly paperbacks column for online on , collating things we loved and things we missed in . We're going to aim for around 15 each month!
    3 likes
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    Mar 4

    📚 Happy 📚 The power of the printed word has never been stronger! Our longlist consists of 12 extraordinary titles by 12 incredible young authors. 🙌 Explore them today:

    , , and 7 others
    11 retweets 22 likes
    Undo
  4. Mar 3

    Good news - new Erskine stories 😎

    Yeah, it’s true, I got a new collection. A bit more sex, a few more commas.
    2 replies 14 likes
    Undo
  5. Retweeted
    Mar 2

    Copies of this beautifully funny, odd and insightful short story collection by have landed and they are bloody gorgeous!! Available from all good bookshops from 1st April. Design by Irene Martinez.

    , , and 2 others
    3 replies 9 retweets 52 likes
    Undo
  6. Feb 28

    Congrats, ! Fab novel.🪶

    I’m thrilled that As You Were has won the 2021 Kate O’ Brien award! Huge Thank You to the festival judges, sponsors & readers ‘Wherever you go, the most of life will have to happen in your mind’ Kate O’Brien
    1 reply 12 likes
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    Feb 26

    Loving ’s new book of essays The Disconnect, perfect reading for these strange times

    1 reply 6 retweets 24 likes
    Undo
  8. Feb 26

    Happy pub day, John. Looking forward to reading this collection.

    official pub day for Pure Gold! Thank you all for your kindness -- it is really lovely and quite overwhelming especially when the world is a shitshow. I hope you enjoy the book if you read it, I hope it's sunny wherever you are
    1 reply 6 likes
    Undo
  9. Feb 21

    Oh. Fiona Shaw & Anne Enright. Good move, . This will be good.

    Date for your diary: By the wonders of the internet, you can see a US bookshop host Anne Enright in conversation with Fiona Shaw discussing her brilliant novel Actress on Tuesday 23rd. Curtain up at 6pm
    1 retweet 15 likes
    Undo
  10. Retweeted
    Feb 19

    In case u missed it last night, here's the event with Deborah Levy

    3 replies 10 retweets 36 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  11. Feb 19

    Note to future self.

    Next month (3/16) at 4:30 EST do yourself a favor and join Hernan Diaz at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center for a very special lecture on fiction Register in advance HERE:
    1 like
    Undo
  12. Feb 19

    Cara’s a good’n. Very lovely to see this. (cc )

    Still can't quite believe this is real, but Brandon Taylor has chosen my debut story collection as the winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award in the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series!
    Show this thread
    1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    Feb 15

    Re-upping my piece for about why Hilary Mantel is very good, and why paragraphs matter more than sentences

    3 replies 18 retweets 61 likes
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Feb 14

    Did not think I'd ever get to talk about Monster Energy semiotics with Andrew Marr but yes, that happened and show goes out tomorrow

    11 replies 9 retweets 58 likes
    Undo
  15. Feb 15

    A writer I admire a lot, interviewed me for magazine. We talk sex, tractors, acidic bitches, and believing in the future.

    1 reply 8 retweets 25 likes
    Undo
  16. Feb 14

    'I want to do with you what darkness does with candlelight' - Alan Gillis

    2 replies 2 retweets 36 likes
    Undo
  17. Retweeted
    Feb 12

    🌾 loved this book so much, I lit a candle for it - thank you for bringing some gáire fiáin into these anti-craic times!

    1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
    Undo
  18. Feb 12

    Never underestimate my perseverance/ through the website glitch/ if I want to buy you/r book.

    7 replies 1 retweet 103 likes
    Undo
  19. Feb 12

    Kevin Barry is right.

    Did I tell youse Kevin Barry said my collection is 'Outstanding'? 🤔
    2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
    Undo
  20. Feb 12

    Oof. What an honour for The Wild Laughter to be discussed in alongside The Spinning Heart for both novels' homage to The Playboy. Let's hope Synge's not turning in his grave! Thank you 🙏🏻

    Had a great time thinking about the echoes between two contemporary novels (The Wild Laughter by and The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan) and The Playboy of the Western World by Synge. Killing the father, and all that.
    1 reply 10 likes
    Undo
  21. Feb 12

    This is a really important conversation about the end of the world as we know it, between , , , , Alan N. Shapiro, and . Well worth watching.

    ‘We have become a geological superpower. And our powers are self-destructive.’ talks and with , , , Alan N. Shapiro, and . Watch the video on
    3 retweets 7 likes
    Undo

@CaoilinnHughes hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·