Part of ILFD

Age : 16+

Venue : Workshop Hub, Merrion Square Park.

Price : €25 / €22.50 BOOK TICKETS HERE

Magical realism is a rich and fascinating literary tradition. This two-hour workshop examines the genre and its artistic style, and explores how to weave fantastical, supernatural or mythical elements into your realistic everyday settings.

In this interactive and informative two-hour workshop, you’ll learn a little about the history and tradition of magical realism and work through some exercises exploring how you can weave the fantastical and surreal into stories of the everyday. Suitable for all level of writers, all you need is a notebook, a pen and an fully functioning imagination.

“No writer captures the absurdity and beauty of life quite like [Jan Carson] does.” Sara Baume

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. She has published novels, short stories and micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019. The Raptures shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year 2022. Her latest novel Few And Far Between is a stunningly original and magically surreal story of history, identity and redemption.