Lynn Buckle
{{Short description|Irish Deaf writer}}
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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.{{cite news |last1=Bayley |first1=Sian |title=Buckle wins Barbellion Prize for 'powerful' novel What Willow Says |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/buckle-wins-barbellion-prize-for-powerful-novel-what-willow-says |access-date=30 June 2022 |work=The Bookseller |date=12 February 2022 |language=En}} She is the founder of the Irish Climate Writing Group.
In February 2022 she was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful on stage, Barbellion prize-winning author Lynn Buckle, singer-conductor Barbara Hannigan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014gbh |website=BBC |access-date=30 June 2022}}
Early life
Buckle was born in Bristol, England, and studied at the University of Warwick, Camberwell School of Art and NUI Maynooth.{{cite web |title=Lynn Buckle |url=https://arachnepress.com/writers/authors/authors-l-n-by-first-name/lynn-buckle/ |website=Arachne Press |access-date=30 June 2022 |date=4 November 2021}} She moved to Ireland in around 1990.{{cite news |title=The Groundsmen by Lynn Buckle |url=https://www.writing.ie/tell-your-own-story/the-groundsmen-by-lynn-buckle/ |access-date=30 June 2022 |work=Writing.ie |date=16 January 2019 |quote=has spent the last thirty years in Ireland}}
Career
Buckle's first published novel was The Groundsmen in 2018.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=Rathangan's Lynn Buckle launches debut novel |url=https://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/home/339531/rathangans-lynn-buckle-launches-debut-novel.html |access-date=30 June 2022 |work=www.leinsterleader.ie |date=6 October 2018 |language=en}} 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".
Her second novel, What Willow Says, also published by époque,{{cite web |title=What Willow Says |url=https://www.epoquepress.com/titles-what-willow-says |website=époque press |access-date=30 June 2022 |language=en}} 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."
She lost her hearing gradually{{cite news |last1=Buckle |first1=Lynn |title=The Last Sounds: how writing my novel helped me accept my own deafness |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-last-sounds-how-writing-my-novel-helped-me-accept-my-own-deafness-1.4599323 |access-date=30 June 2022 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=25 June 2021 |language=en}} and now hears "my versions of sounds, delivered through my technology".
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".{{cite web |title=Imagining The City: Five writers, one month |url=https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/imagining-the-city/ |website=National Centre for Writing |access-date=30 June 2022}} 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."{{cite web |title=Ailbhe's Tale by Lynn Buckle |url=https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/article/ailbhes-tale/ |website=National Centre for Writing |access-date=30 June 2022 |date=12 March 2021}} and was later published as part of Arachne Press's anthology What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective.
Buckle is increasingly addressing the topic of climate and is the founder of the Irish Writers Climate Group at the Irish Writer's Centre.
Selected publications
- {{cite book|first=Lynn |last=Buckle|title=The Groundsmen|year=2018|publisher=époque Press |isbn=978-1999896027}}
- {{cite book|first=Lynn |last=Buckle|title=What Willow Says|year=2022|publisher=époque Press |isbn=978-1838059286 }}
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Kelly |editor-first1=Lisa |editor-last2=Stone |editor-first2=Sophie |first=Lynn |last=Buckle |title=What Meets the Eye: a Deaf Perspective |publisher=Arachne Press |isbn=9781913665487 |chapter=Ailbhe's Tale|year=2021}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://lynnbuckle.wordpress.com}}
- [https://www.epoquepress.com/our-authors-lyn-buckle Lynn Buckle page on époque press website] including video clips of Buckle reading from her two novels
- {{cite web |last1=Wells |first1=Zoë |title=An Interview with Lynn Buckle Author of "What Willow Says" |url=https://banditfiction.com/2021/07/11/an-interview-with-lynn-buckle-author-of-what-willow-says/ |website=Bandit Fiction |access-date= |language=en |date=11 July 2021}}
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Category:21st-century Irish women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of Warwick
Category:Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts
Category:Alumni of Maynooth University
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