Please join Jan Carson for a reading and talk focused on her new short story collection, Quickly, While We Still Have Horses.
Please join me for a reading and in conversation with Catherine Higgins-Moore in the newly opened bookshop in beautiful Royal Hillsborough. This event is free and will include a reading, Q&A and book signing.
Join Jan Carson and Chris Power as they discuss Quickly, While They Still Have Horses – sixteen stories of youth and innocence, age and experience – and all the spaces in between.
We're so excited to welcome Jan Carson to Rare Birds Book Shop this April!
Jan's novel The Raptures was a book club pick and one of our bestselling books in 2023, and we're thrilled to welcome her to store to discuss her new sparkling new collection of short stories.
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of the Irish Times, discusses his powerful new publication, Dirty Linen – The Troubles in My Home Place.
Belfast-based writers Jan Carson and Dawn Watson discuss their latest publications and how a childhood played out against the background of the Troubles in Northern Ireland has shaped them as both artists and human beings.
Irish literature has always been in dialogue with the ocean. Contemporary writers continue to wrestle with what it means to be an island nation inspired by and at the mercy of the sea. In this lively conversation two brilliant Irish novelists discuss their recent coastal novels.
Join Jan Carson and Patrick deWitt in conversation with Jessica Traynor to discuss their new work.
Author Jan Carson will read from her latest short story collection (April 2024) and poet, storyteller and playwright Nandi Jola will talk about her decolonisation of museums journey, followed by a conversation between the two artists and a Q&A session.
Jan Carson is a writer who is well-known to our Helicon audiences. Her new short story collection – Quickly, While They Still Have Horses – features sixteen sparkling stories, in which she introduces us to worlds and characters that feel real enough to touch. All of life is here: the thrill of growing up, the grief when youth is over; first love, mature love, parenthood and loss - all shot through with her trademark profound compassion, warm wit, and boundless imagination.
Jan will be live on BBC Radio Ulster discussing her latest short story collection, Quickly While They Still Have Horses with Kathy Clugston.
Welcome to the **BOOK LAUNCH** of QUICKLY, WHILE THEY STILL HAVE HORSES by award-winning Irish author JAN CARSON with her latest collection of short stories.
Join us for the long awaited launch of Jan Carson’s new short story collection, ‘Quickly, While They Still Have Horses’.
Join MoLI and UCD on Tuesday, 5 March, at 6pm for the third in a series called 'UCD Writers in Conversation'. For this edition, Sarah Moss, who directs the MA and MFA at UCD, will be in conversation with Jan Carson
Join us at the Guildhall on Monday, March 4th, for an extraordinary literary gathering - Penning Peace: Women Writing the North!
This hybrid conference will bring together writers, illustrators and literary translators to find inspiration, support and community. Hosted in person at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast and livestreamed to online participants, this will be a day of panel discussions, talks and networking opportunities to help you to build your career as an author. Hear how other authors have established themselves and their tips for success. From AI to sustainability, find out how the publishing industry is changing and what this means for you.
Jan will be part of a panel discussion to showcase the screening of this new documentary which she features in.
Reading and Talk - Brigid Meets Joyce - An Evening with Jan Carson (University of Flensburg)
Reading and Talk - Magical Realism and Cultural Memory - The Troubles in Jan Carson's Writing (University of Kiel)
Talk and reading - Strange Hotels - Jan Carson on Hotels in Literature and Real Life (University of Hamburg)
Author Jan Carson will be in conversation with some of Ireland’s most exciting emerging authors. The Red Bird Sings (Virago) by Aoife Fitzpatrick is a searing feminist historical Gothic fiction that confronts urgent issues of the present day. Catfish Rolling (Head of Zeus) by Clara Kumagai is a story that blends magic-realism with Japanese myth and legend. Perpetual Comedown (New Island) by Declan Toohey is a contemporary yarn of academic intrigue and youthful irreverence, sexual fluidity and neurodiversity.
Jan Carson and Suad Aldarra in Conversation at Dingle Lit Festival
An interactive and informative workshop focusing in on the mistakes almost every writer makes and how to avoid making them in your own writing. There’ll be space to look at how you approach the act of writing and identify areas where you could significantly improve upon your creative process, as well as time set aside to explore where your writing’s going wrong on a sentence by sentence basis. This workshop will be incredibly practical, easy to understand and full of hard-learnt advice.
In this special panel event, novelist and commissioning editor Olivia Fitzsimons is joined by award-winning authors Sheila Armstrong, Jan Carson and Sheena Patel to talk about their contributions to This So-Called Writing Life, an online essay series published throughout the year on stingingfly.org. The writers will discuss the highs and lows they’ve experienced while developing their creative practice, exploring topics such as protecting mental health, advancing self-care, building friendships and accessing community support networks.
In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain – traditionally believed to be where Saint Patrick was brought to tend sheep before finding God – has been sold to a Japanese theme park. However on the day Slemish is to be removed and shipped across the world the diggers are beset by protesters, politicians and the Ballymena townsfolk caught in between.
Are there responsibilities to community when writing fiction? Authors Emma Hislop (Aotearoa) and Jan Carson (Northern Ireland) join Tegan Bennett Daylight to talk about the art of writing place and people, its challenges and joys.
Focusing on key themes such as developing ideas, writing believable characters, dialogue, plot, structure, pacing and conciseness, this workshop will also look at how to engage your readers from the very first line and hold their attention to the final word. Packed with useful tips and exercises, all you need for this workshop is a notebook, a pen and your imagination.
In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain – traditionally believed to be where Saint Patrick was brought to tend sheep before finding God – has been sold to a Japanese theme park. However on the day Slemish is to be removed and shipped across the world the diggers are beset by protesters, politicians and the Ballymena townsfolk caught in between.
In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain – traditionally believed to be where Saint Patrick was brought to tend sheep before finding God – has been sold to a Japanese theme park. However on the day Slemish is to be removed and shipped across the world the diggers are beset by protesters, politicians and the Ballymena townsfolk caught in between.
In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain – traditionally believed to be where Saint Patrick was brought to tend sheep before finding God – has been sold to a Japanese theme park. However on the day Slemish is to be removed and shipped across the world the diggers are beset by protesters, politicians and the Ballymena townsfolk caught in between.
In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain – traditionally believed to be where Saint Patrick was brought to tend sheep before finding God – has been sold to a Japanese theme park. However on the day Slemish is to be removed and shipped across the world the diggers are beset by protesters, politicians and the Ballymena townsfolk caught in between.
