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. She is the founder of the Irish Climate Writing Group.

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

Early life Buckle was born in Bristol, England, and studied at the University of Warwick, Camberwell School of Art and NUI Maynooth. She moved to Ireland in around 1990.

Career Buckle's first published novel was The Groundsmen in 2018. 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". 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." and now hears "my versions of sounds, delivered through my technology". During the project she wrote a short story "Ailbhe's Tale" which "draws inspiration from Norwich and Dublin's shared histories of hidden waterways through the lens of gender, power, and place." and was later published as part of Arachne Press's anthology What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective.

Selected publications