Name: Jan Carson
Start: 2024-10-18T02:00:00+01:00
Location: 58 Newton Road, SA3 4BQ

Delighted to have thew award-winning Jan Carson coming to read and sign in the shop. Jan will be introduced by her friend Dr Elaine Canning for Swansea University's Cultural Institute.
The dazzling new collection from the multi-award-winning author of The Raptures; bold, tender, surprising stories of youth and innocence, age and experience – and all the spaces in between.
‘Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED IT’ – Marian Keyes
‘Original and exciting, terrifying and hilarious’ – Sunday Times
‘Heart-rending, hilarious…it’s a belter’ – Louise Kennedy
‘Compassionate and meticulously observed’ – Guardian
‘A fascinating tale of trauma, fury and panic’ – Independent
JAN CARSON is a writer and community arts facilitator 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 and her third novel, The Raptures (2022) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has won the Harper's Bazaar short-story competition and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year, and the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Priz