A former journalist who became one of Ireland’s most versatile literary voices, Lindsay J. Sedgwick is an award-winning writer across genre, mediums and audiences. Her work ranges from children’s literature to animation series, from Dublin to the world stage.
A screenwriter since the 90s, Lindsay J. Sedgwick has published eight books of fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature since 2017.
Her beloved Wulfie children’s series (Little Island Books) has delighted young readers since 2020, while her adult fiction explores the complex emotional terrain of contemporary Irish life.
Punky, the award-winning animation series she created, has been ackowledged as the first mainstream cartoon in which the man character had special needs (Down’s syndrome) and has been available in 100+ countries, with more than fve million YouTube hits.
A former Chair of the Irish Writers Union, she currently lectures in screenwriting at Maynooth University where she was Screenwriter in Residence 2016–17.
In 2026, she contributed to Faintly Falling Falling Faintly, an exhibition in London inspired by James Joyce’s The Dead and saw her collaboration with Belfast artist M. Woods Moore – Sparks – published in May, while her new flash fiction collection Glimpses Beneath will be published by Silver Locust Press in June.
Glimpses Beneath
GLIMPSES BENEATH, a chapbook of flash fiction. (Silver Locust Press, to be launched in Dublin on June 15th).
SPARKS, a collaboration of art & storytelling with Belfast artist M. Woods Moore. (Janey Mac Books, May 2026.)
COMING NEXT:
MISCHIEVOUS MAGICAL MIA MALONE. (Illustrated by Abigail Hicks) Janey Mac Books, September 2026
Recent news:
CLOUDS, ABOVE, short story (creative non-fiction), published in the Citron Review spring edition 2026
AN UNLIKELY SCHOLAR, short story (creative non-fiction) to be published in the From The Well anthology 2026 on July 17th, Cork City.
RHYME & REASON, Dublin South FM: interviewed about writing, and reading from my work – to be broadcast on June 5th, 2026
RECENT EVENTS
Guest Lecturer, Visual Storytelling for Concept Artists, Staffordshire University
Faintly Falling Falling Faintly, Finch Gallery, London Fields. Contributed two pieces of art and flash fiction to this exhibition organised by Caroline McCambridge and Belinda Worsley askign for work inspired by the last few lines of James Joyce’s story, The Dead. Performed these flash fictions at opening night soiree.
World Book Day workshop: Everyone Needs a Wulfie. Hodges Figgis, Dublin; March 5th, 2026
Lindsay J. Sedgwick 