Jan Carson in Conversation

Tickets: £10 available HERE

Venues: Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy

Jan Carson is a writer who is well-known to our Helicon audiences. Her new short story collection – Quickly, While They Still Have Horses – features sixteen sparkling stories, in which she introduces us to worlds and characters that feel real enough to touch. All of life is here: the thrill of growing up, the grief when youth is over; first love, mature love, parenthood and loss - all shot through with her trademark profound compassion, warm wit, and boundless imagination. 

Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short-story collection, Children's Children (2016), and two flash fiction anthologies, Postcard Stories (2017) and Postcard Stories 2 (2020). Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award and her third novel, The Raptures (2022) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year.

As an author who has chaired many events here at Seamus Heaney HomePlace, we are delighted to welcome Jan in her own right and to celebrate her work as she chats to Hilary Copeland, Director of Fighting Words NI.