Merrill Fellow, Jan Carson, to read at Bank Square Books

Please join us at Bank Square Books for a reading by James Merrill Fellow, Jan Carson.

Jan is a writer 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 (UK) in April 2024 and Scribner (US) in July 2024. Her

writing has been aired on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and RTE. She is the Seamus Heaney Centre

Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast 2025 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Her first stage play, an adaptation of the children’s classic, The Velveteen Rabbit was

produced by Replay Theatre Company at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in March 2025. Her next

novel, Few and Far Between is forthcoming in early 2026.

RSVP encouraged, but not required to attend.