Jan Carson in conversation

Solas Nua- ‘new light’ in Irish, is a leading multidisciplinary arts organization that is dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish arts. Based in Washington, D.C., our mission is to bring the best of contemporary Irish arts to U.S. audiences.www.solasnua.org

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Dublin Book Festival at Solas Nua presents:  Jan Carson in conversation

Thursday Sept 10th, 5 PM ET / 10 PM ISTJoin Dublin Book Festival at Solas Nua, in association with Culture Ireland, for writer Jan Carson in conversation.Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her work includes the novel Malcolm Orange Disappears, short story collections Children’s Children, (Liberties Press) and The Last Resort (Doubleday) and two micro-fiction collections, Postcard Stories 1 and 2 (Emma Press). Her 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. She was the inaugural Irish Writers Centre Roaming Writer in Residence on the trains of Ireland in 2019 and the Open Book Scotland Writer in Lockdown during 2020. She is currently writer in residence on an AHRC-funded research project at Queen’s University Belfast exploring the depiction of dementia in contemporary fiction and will be editing a collection of newly commissioned short stories exploring the dementia experience to be published in September 2022. Jan’s third novel, The Raptures is forthcoming from Doubleday in spring 2022.

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