Settle down with a cup of something warm and listen to a 15-minute reading from one of a carefully selected group of writers. Many of them are award-winning, all of them are ground-breaking. What better way to spend your afternoon tea break? 

Today, Jan Carson reads her short story “Soup” (15 min approx).

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland in 2019 and the Kitschies Prize for Speculative Fiction in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Dalkey Book Prize in 2020. The Last Resort, a ten-part BBC Radio 4 short story series is forthcoming from Doubleday in early 2021 and a novel, No Promised Land, in July 2021.

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