Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose novels include The Alternatives, which was nominated for the Irish Book Awards and was a New York Times Editor's Pick, The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and Orchid & The Wasp.
Her short stories have been awarded an O.Henry Prize, the Moth International Short Story Prize, and the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year 2020. She was a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library for 2023-2024.
At MacDowell, Hughes completed copyedits to her third novel, The Alternatives (Riverhead 2024), and drafted an original stage play.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the
organization was established and the first artists arrived for
residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed
in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral
leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward
MacDowell…
