Jan Carson is a master of the short story form and she released a dazzling new collection of stories in 2024. Jan’s collection Quickly, While They Still Have Horses contains bold, tender, surprising stories of youth and innocence, age and experience - and all the spaces in between. Fellow short story writer Thomas Morris was scheduled to be part of this event but was unable to take part on the day. His work and his 2023 story collection Open Up are referenced during this event. This podcast was recorded at West Cork Literary Festival on 17 July 2024 and Jan Carson was in conversation with Oonagh Montague.
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Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019. Jan’s latest 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. Her short story collection Quickly, While They Still Have Horses was published by Doubleday in April 2024.
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