Wanting to be a writer has brought me on a circuitous journey through many forms, gathering skills from each. I began as a journalist, writing plays on the side – but it wasn’t enough. There were too many words and worlds within me! So then I had thirty years as screenwriter and creative writing tutor all over Ireland, still having plays staged in Ireland and the UK, even one on BBC Radio 4 – a rom-com for my mother! – and, latterly, seven books published.
All the different skills from each medium, I bring now to my books, to my events and to my workshops and writing festivals. Truth is, I’m an absolute advocate for how wonderful and magical writing is, in whatever form works. Each story has different demands and challenges, but I love how no two days are ever, truly, the same.
This year, I have three books coming out and I can’t wait to share them. The first two are books of flash fiction, Glimpses Beneath and Sparks, the latter a collaboration with Belfast artist, Margaret Woods Moore – and then my fifth children’s book, Mischievous Magical Maia Malone, comes out in September, illustrated by the wonderful Abigal Hicks. I’ll have a cover reveal soon! It will be four years then since the fourth book of my Wulfie series came out – and that was a whole other story: publishing four books, six months apart, during a global pandemic!
Oh and I also had two stories accepted this year – Clouds Above is due to be published in the American literary journal, Citron Review shortly and An Unlikely Scholar will be in the second From the Well anthology to be launched on July 17th in Bantry.
Press Bio
Lindsay J Sedgwick is aversatile and award-winnig playwright, screenwriter and author of seven books. Based in Dublin, Ireland, she lectures in Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, where she was Screenwriter in Residence 2016-7. She has two books of flash fiction due out this year, Sparks, A Collaboration of Art & Storytelling, with artist M Woods Moore (Janey Mac Books, May 2026) and Glimpses Beneath with Silver Locust Press in June. A tenth book, Mischievous Magica Maia Malone is due out later this year, while several of her stories are being published in the States and Ireland.
Sedgwick has designed and run workshops and creative writing courses in many of the major educational institutions around Ireland, both universities and colleges, and in the Irish Writers Centre. She has been a guest speaker at conferences in London, Cork and Dublin and for many writing festivals all over Ireland including Cúirt, and Content UK. She was Chair of the Irish Writers Union 2023-2025. Her published work includes flash fiction, creative non-fiction, children’s literature, fiction and non-fiction with an emphasis on authentic character, voice and visual storytelling.
TV and film credits include the internationally acclaimed animation series, PUNKY, now available in over 100 countries. A graduate of Moonstone ScreenLabs (2002), she was a New York University ‘Gregory Peck Scriptwriting Course’ scholar, (1993) and has an MA Screenwriting from Leeds Metropolitan University (1999).In 2012, she founded the Creatives in Animation Network (CAN) to facilitate collaboration between writers and animators.
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