Jan Carson

(Ireland)

Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two microfiction collections. Her novel, The Fire Starters  won the European Literature Prize for Ireland, in 2019. Her most recent novel, The Raptures, was published by Doubleday in early 2022 and was subsequently shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year awards. Her short story collection Quickly, While They Still Have Horses was published by Doubleday (UK) in April 2024, and by Scribner (USA) in July 2024. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and RTE. She is a 2025 Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first play, an adaptation of the children's classic The Velveteen Rabbit, was produced by the Replay theatre company at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in March 2025. Her next novel is Few and Far Between, which is to be published in early 2026.

Other activities involving the participant:

Territory of Affections, Silences and Encounters
Annual International Storytellers Conference