Venue: Market Place Theatre, Armagh

Tickets: £10

Part of the John Hewitt Summer School. More info and Tickets HERE

Jan Carson’s first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize.

Jan’s latest novel, The Raptures, (Penguin, 2022) is an inventive and moving account of small-town Ulster life, where several children from the same village succumb to a mysterious illness, and the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.

‘One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation.’ The Sunday Times

‘An Agatha Christie-esque whodunnit, a dark supernatural mystery and an account of mass trauma…meticulously observed.’ The Guardian.

Jan will be in conversation with Andrew Cunning, a Belfast based theologian, whose writings address the intersections between literature, theology, politics and religion. His first book, Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary, was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.

Phot Credit Frankie Quinn.