Susannah Dickey

Susannah Dickey grew up in Derry and now lives in London. She is the author of four poetry pamphlets, I had some very slight concerns (2017), genuine human values (2018), bloodthirsty for marriage (2020), and Oh! (2022). Her poetry has been published in The TLS, Poetry London, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her short fiction has been published in The Dublin Review and The White Review. In 2019 she won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, and in 2021 she was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, a prize granted for a collection by poets under the age of 30. Her debut poetry collection, Isdal, will be published in 2023.

She is the author of Tennis Lessons (2020) and Common Decency (2022), both published by Doubleday UK. 

Praise for Susannah Dickey

Susannah Dickey is a phenomenal talent., Elizabeth Day

A vivid and beautifully written novel that confirms [Dickey] as one of literature's major new talents ... its quiet despair is genuinely affecting., Observer

[A] treat . . . vividly compelling . . . a rare talent, Sunday Times

Seriously readable, Daily Mail

I loved Common Decency . . . a surprising, clever, sad and strange book . . . such a propulsive joy to read too., Megan Nolan

Raw, fierce, shockingly honest...a startling new voice in literary fiction, Louise O'Neill

An incredibly funny and poignant portrait of what it is to be young, female and human. The whole thing is witty - the narrative voice, the dialogue, the plot and the detail - while also having searing moments of sadness, discomfort and cruelty. Susannah Dickey has created a world and a main character that is by turns disgusting and charming and I loved it., Nell Frizzell

A beautifully written and psychologically incisive bildungsroman...the arrival of a young writer to watch, Observer

Propulsive . . . brilliantly vivid . . . stays in the mind long after reading, Irish Times

Absolutely brilliant . . . touchingly captures the awkward, aching longing of a misfit . . . darkly funny, Express