Online short fiction workshop with Jan Carson

Are you struggling to think creatively? Has Lockdown left you in an imaginative slump? Worry not. Help is at hand. In this interactive creative writing workshop, Belfast-based novelist and short story writer Jan Carson will help you explore and develop ideas for new short stories and hopefully get you writing again. Using fun writing exercises, prompts, discussion and hard-learnt wisdom from 15 years of wrestling ideas onto the page, Jan will help you rediscover your imagination, inspiring fresh ideas for stories to come. This workshop is suitable for emerging and mid-level prose fiction writers and requires nothing but a notebook, pen and the temporary suspension of disbelief. This session is perfect for those who need a little encouragement and a gentle reminder of how much you enjoy making things up.

This workshop will take place on Zoom and is limited to a maximum of 20 participants. It will last for two hours, including a short break. 

You can book your place online here

About the speaker: 

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of the novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, a short story collection, Children’s Children (Liberties Press), and two micro-fiction collections, Postcard Stories 1 and 2 (Emma Press). Her second novel, The Fire Starters (Doubleday), won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019, the Kitschies Prize for Speculative Fiction 2020 and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Book Prize 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 latest short story collection, The Last Resort, has just been published by Doubleday (April 2021). Find out more about Jan on her website: www.jancarson.co.uk or follow her on Twitter: @JanCarson7280.