We are pleased to present Jan Carson in conversation with Anne Flaherty.
The interview will be available to view on this page from 2pm on May 16th.
About Jan Carson: born in Ballymena, Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator now based in Belfast. Her writing includes Malcolm Orange Disappears (2014), Children’s Children, (2016), and two micro-fiction collections, Postcard Stories 1 and 2 (2017 & 2020).
Jan won the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition in 2016 and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Story Prize and Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize. Her most recent novel The Fire Starters (2020) won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland, the Kitschies Prize for Speculative Fiction and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Book Prize. Jan’s most recent 10 part short story series, The Last Resortwas transmitted on BBC Radio 4 in early 2021. In January this year she hosted an online symposium showcasing contemporary Northern Irish writers: Prophets, Makers and Risk Takers.
She is currently writer in residence on an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the depiction of Dementia in contemporary fiction.
Jan’s third novel, The Raptures will be published in Spring 2022
About Anne Flaherty: A journalist born in London and growing up in County Clare, Anne has worked for The Irish Press in Dublin and The Irish Times in Belfast as well as reporting from Africa and Asia. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and holds an MA in Anglo-Irish Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and an MA in Children’s Literature from the University of Surrey.
We are pleased to announce an upcoming series of literary interviews, Northern Irish Voices, which will form part of our spring 2021 cultural programme. The series will focus on leading voices and writers from Northern Ireland: ex-President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, two of Ireland’s most esteemed and influential poets, Michael Longley and Frank Ormsby, along with award-winning authors Glenn Patterson, Jan Carson, and Lucy Caldwell.
The series will begin on Sunday 11th April and will run for six weeks.
The six participants will discuss their recent publications, in conversation with the following interviewers: journalist Anne Flaherty, television executive Anne Morrison, writer and broadcaster Dr Carlo Gébler and academic Dr Keith Hopper. The events will be streamed as six individual author events.
The series will be broadcast on ICC Digital, our highly successful online platform that was created in April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The platform enjoys an international audience and has quickly become a global hub for Irish culture and arts. It has also helped us to mark our 25th anniversary year.
Dr Anne Goudsmit, a member of the ICC Board, says: We are delighted to welcome this diverse line-up of leading voices from Northern Ireland and their interviewers, who have provided us with six exceptionally thought-provoking and wide-ranging discussions. The series consists of Dr Mary McAleese discussing her memoir, Michael Longley and Frank Ormsby deliberating on their extraordinary poetic careers, while Glenn Patterson, Lucy Caldwell and Jan Carson discuss their recent novels and short story collections. These interviews provide a fascinating insight into Northern Irish life, culture and literature during the past six decades, while also drawing attention to literary responses to current tensions in Northern Ireland.
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