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.
Recorded live in The Cube at The Crescent join us for a magical mix of spoken word and live music.
Sunday Miscellany has been a weekend institution of Irish Radio since 1968 and we are delighted to welcome the programme back to Belfast Book Festival.
How do contemporary authors perceive their position in a Europe that is being transformed under the increasing influence of populists and threatened by the Russian imperial war in Ukraine? If culture is society’s principal means of self-reflexion, should writers and artists be supported by the state? Should Europe nurture writing in minor and minoritised languages in particular? What to write about, and how, when facing the diminishing ability of readers to focus on extended texts, as well as decreasing book sales?
Join Belfast-based writer Jan Carson for this interactive and informative workshop focusing on the mistakes almost every writer makes and how to avoid making them in your own writing.
