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Ullapool Village Hall

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Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. 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. She has won the Harper’s Bazaar short-story competition and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. Her latest novel The Raptures, published in January, will cement Jan Carson’s reputation as one of the most exciting and inventive writers of her generation. “An original work that’s equal parts terrifying, hilarious and memorable” – The Times

Chaired by Mark Wringe