The 6.10pm screening on Sat 21 Mar will be followed by a Q&A with director Brian Durnin, hosted by author Jan Carson.
Wendy Erskine and Jan Carson will be in conversation with award-winning writer and journalist, Freya McClements.
Save the date for the Belfast launch of my latest novel, Few and Far Between. More information coming very soon.
Join us for the Derry launch of Few and Far Between at Little Acorns Bookstore.
Save the date for the Dublin launch of my latest novel, Few and Far Between. More information coming very soon.
This lively and engaging panel discussion hosted by broadcaster and journalist Nadine O'Regan returns for another year with some of Ireland's bestselling authors including Jan Carson (Few and Far Between), Edel Coffey (In Glass Houses), Charleen Hurtubise (Saoirse) and Louise Nealon (Everything That Is Beautiful).
Inside Out, Telling Tales Elsewhere, an hour-long panel discussion, featuring three contemporary writers from the north of Ireland
Save the date for a reading and q&a at Ballymena, Waterstones, celebrating the publication of my latest novel, Few and Far Between. More information coming very soon.
Sinéad Morrissey was the first poet to read
in The Helicon, alongside Michael Longley,
when HomePlace opened its doors ten
years ago. We are thrilled to welcome
Sinéad’s return. For this long-awaited visit
the topic for discussion will be her literary
career and her new memoir, published by
Carcanet in March 2026.
This lively, interactive and incredibly practical workshop will equip you with everything you need to begin or continue your journey with the short story.
Join us in imagining alternative realities with Jan Carson, Balsam Karam and Saskia Vogel.
Jan Carson needs no introduction to our Helicon audiences having chaired conversations with several guests at HomePlace. We are delighted to welcome Jan in her own right as an award-winning author to talk about her new book.
Mermaid Arts Centre is delighted to partner with Bridge Street Books to bring an exciting evening of literature to the Assembly Hall, Wicklow Town with renowned authors Jan Carson and Sarah Moss facilitated by Wicklow author Olivia Fitzsimons.
Join us as we welcom Jan Carson to our shop to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, Few and Far Between.
We are really excited to welcome Jan Carson to Juno to discuss her latest novel, ‘Few and Far Between’ in which she imagines an alternative version of Northern Ireland’s recent past.
Jan will be on RTE Radio One’s flagship arts show, Arena talking about the short story
This lively, interactive and incredibly practical workshop will equip you with everything you need to begin or continue your journey with the short story.
This day long workshop will provide a rough guide to surviving some of the biggest challenges associated with writing. Combining teaching, discussion and interactive exercises the workshop will cover key elements of professional writing practice including time management, self-motivation, protecting your time and creativity, publicity and social media, public events and generating income.
The brilliant Jan Carson, winner of the EU Prize for Literature and author of the dazzling new collection, Quickly, While they Still Have Horses, will be in conversation with Elaine Canning, author of The Sandstone City and editor of Maggie O'Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury).
Irish writing has long captivated readers worldwide, with almost a third of last year’s Booker Prize nominees hailing from Ireland. Acclaimed Irish authors Rónán Hession (Ghost Mountain), Jan Carson (Quickly, While They Still Have Horses) and Mike McCormack (This Plague of Souls) discuss their distinctive visions and artistic journeys. Chaired by gorse journal founder, Susan Tomaselli.
HomePlace is
delighted to welcome two of Ireland’s foremost writers whose work explores
themes of place, relationships and the female experience.
This Must be the Place. Sarah Binchy, Jan Carson and John Patrick McHugh discuss Ireland’s international reputation for short story writing with chair Niall MacMonagle.
IAC hosts the U.S. launch for Quickly, While They Still Have Horses, Belfast author Jan Carson’s new short story collection that takes a fresh, irreverent look at life in post-conflict Northern Ireland.
Irish author Jan Carson joins us to discuss her award winning story collection QUICKLY, WHILE THEY STILL HAVE HORSES.
Author Jan Carson will read from and discuss her new short story collection, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses(Scribner, July 2024).
Jan talks all things sport, books and the legendary Jackie Fullerton on much-loved Sports Podcast, Second Captains.
To quote Ali Smith, ‘With the short story, you are up against mortality’. We bring you two masters of the form in Jan Carson, winner of the EU Prize for Literature, who chronicles life in glittering stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses and award-winning Kirsty Gunn with Pretty Ugly, which relishes the contradictions that comprise a life.
Scribes at the Duncairn, part of Féile an Phobail 2024 Featuring Paul McVeigh, Bernie McGill & Jan Carson
Reading at THE ROCK BAR, FALLS ROAD as part of Féile an Phobail 2024
Jan will be hosting and moderating a reading and question and answer session from participating poets Olga Demott-Bond and Katie Griffiths,
Join Belfast-based writers Aimee Walsh, whose critically-acclaimed debut novel Exile was published this spring and Jan Carson, whose most recent short story collection Quickly, While They Still Have Horses has just hit the shelves to great critical acclaim, for a reading and engaging chat about the joys and trials of writing about this part of the world.
Interested in writing short stories? Struggling to know where to start? Wondering how and when to end your story?
A unique opportunity to hear two new voices, and hidden gems of the JHISS festival, discuss their debut books with the award-winning Belfast writer Jan Carson.
Kevin has just launched his latest novel, The Heart in Winter (Canongate Books, 2024), a savagely funny, achingly beautiful love story set in the Wild West, where Irish miners migrated to Butte Montana, to work in the mines in 1880s.
Jan Carson and Thomas Morris are masters of the short story form and both have released dazzling new collections of stories in recent months.
This lively, interactive and incredibly practical workshop will equip you with everything you need to begin or continue your journey with the short story.
Jan Carson will be in store on Saturday 6th July to read from her new short story collection, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses
Join us in No Alibis Bookstore to celebrate Rónán Hession's latest novel, Ghost Mountain, with an interview of the author by Jan Carson.
Jan has a new piece of creative non-fiction about being thrown out of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam airing on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany Radio Show
Winner of the EU Prize for Literature in 2019 for her bestselling novel, The Raptures, Jan Carson is back in Dalkey with her latest publication, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses, a collection which introduces us to worlds and characters that feel real enough to touch.
Award-winning novelist, Mary Costello, explores love, loss and the turbulent lives of ordinary people in Barcelona, where we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives.
This workshop will provide an overview to surviving some of the biggest challenges associated with writing.
The acclaimed writer of Young Skins and the screenplay for Calm with Horses, comes to Dalkey to chat about his debut novel Wild Houses.
Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, join Mark Aldridge as he discusses Agatha Christie’s best-loved detectives with avid Marple fan Jan Carson.
Belfast Invites is a mini-series in which Belfast-based writers are asked who they’d like to have a conversation with.
Join Jan Carson and Sophie White to discuss Jan’s short story collection Quickly, While They Still Have Horses (Penguin, 2024) - a surreal and darkly comic collection that offers a fresh and irreverent look at life in contemporary Northern Ireland.
