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Pádraig Ó Tuama is joined by Jan Carson
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. She has written three novels, two collections of short stories, and two flash fiction anthologies; her work has also appeared in a number of journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her second novel, The Fire Starters (Transworld, 2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award. Her latest short story collection, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses was published by Penguin in April 2024. Jan is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Jan joins Pádraig to talk about magical realism, writing about the Northern Irish Protestant experience, and her work in community arts. You can find a full transcript and discussion questions here.