Venue: Passa Porta (meeting) Brussels

Cost: €30 tickets and more info HERE

Do you struggle with developing characters for your short stories or novels? In this short, interactive workshop Belfast-based novelist and short story writer, Jan Carson will lead you through some simple writing exercise in order to help you writer believable, memorable and really interesting characters. Including opportunity for discussion, teaching and a chance to write something new all you need to take part in this workshop is a pen, paper and a healthy dose of imagination.   

Limited spots available. 
Important information: this workshop is intended for people who have already published a piece of writing or who have a regular writing practice.

about jan carson 

Jan Carson is a Belfast based writer who has published four novels, three short story collections and three micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland, 2019. The Raptures was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year.  

Jan was the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast in 2025, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has achieved the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Her most recent novel, Few and Far Between (Doubleday UK and Scribner US) and micro-fiction collection, No Vacancy (No Alibis Press), were both published in 2026.