Process, Practice, and Preoccupations

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Professor Jan Carson will discuss her writing and delve into her themes, writing style, and her journey as a Northern Irish writer. The event is part of the 2025 opening of the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies.

Carson 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. Her 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 will be 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.

Registration

Free and public event | Registration is not required
Online event (http://youtube.com/@iea-usp) | No attendance certification will be provided
The event will be held in English and no simultaneous translation into Portuguese will be provided