Part of the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival

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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.

Winner of the EU Prize for Literature, Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator whose work has been published to critical acclaim. Jan’s short story collection, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses, is being published by Doubleday in 2024.

Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) is a Taranaki-based writer. She is the author of Ruin, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2023. Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas, including Action Spectacle, Sport, Huia, Newsroom and Takahē. She has a Masters of Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters and in 2021 received the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary.

Tegan Bennett Daylight is a writer, teacher, critic, and the author of three novels in addition to several books for young people. Her collection of short stories, Six Bedrooms, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, the Steele Rudd Award and the 2016 Stella Prize, and her books of essays, The Details, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction.