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Re-Imagining Ulster- New Ways of Writing the North of Ireland – 11/11/25

Re-Imagining Ulster- New Ways of Writing the North of Ireland. Author Talk: Jan Carson. Tuesday, November 11, 2025 @ 12:30pm. Education Building 115. Jan 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. Jan's latest novel, The Raptures was published in 2022 and was 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. 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. english.tcnj.edu. Guest Speaker Event- Jan Carson, prized novelist from Belfast, is speaking at TCNJ on November 11th, 2025 at 12:30pm in the Education Building in Room 115. Contact deptengl@tcnj.edu if you have any questions.

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