SHC Fellow Jan Carson leads a practical course on Surviving as a Writer in two half-day sessions. Participants are encouraged to sign up with both sessions.
- Date(s)
- May 13, 2025
- Location
- The Seamus Heaney Centre
- Time
- 14:00 - 17:00
The second of two half-day sessions on Surviving as a Writer - open to postgraduate students at Queen's only.
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She 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 Prize. Jan is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.