The Word with Jan Carson, author of The Raptures. Ireland Reads Special

The Word, featuring Jan Carson,author of acclaimed new, novel, The Raptures.

Jan will be in conversation with Una Mannion.

Ireland Reads Special

WEDNESDAY, February 23rd, 2022 6:30PM

FREE Online event.

Music with Nuala Kennedy

Q&A

Open Mic

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has a novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears and short story collection, Children’s Children, (Liberties Press), two micro-fiction collections, Postcard Stories 1 and 2 (Emma Press) and a short story collection, The Last Resort (Doubleday). Her novel The Fire Starters (Doubleday) won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019, the Kitschies Prize for Speculative Fiction 2020 and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Book Prize 2020. Jan won the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition in 2016 and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Story Prize (2020), Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize (2016) and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award (2021). Jan’s latest novel, The Raptures was published by Doubleday in early 2022.

Una Mannion is a writer and teacher. Her debut novel A Crooked Tree was published in 2021 and her short stories have been published in journals and anthologies including The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. She is the editor of The Cormorant, a broadsheet of poetry and prose and is programme chair of the Writing + Literature BA at IT Sligo

Nuala Kennedy, World renowned traditional singer and flute player Nuala Kennedy grew up playing Irish music in Dundalk, County Louth and currently resides in Ennis, County Clare with her Appalachian singer husband A. J. Roach and their two young children. Her fourth solo release 'Behave the Bravest' (2016) received accolades from reviewers and fans around the globe and was recorded over six months on three continents while on tour as ‘Nuala Kennedy Band’. (Sydney Australia, Los Angeles, California and Edinburgh, Scotland.) The album was mixed by renowned producer Paul Savage of Chem 19 Studios, Glasgow and mastered by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Adam Berg in L.A.

Open Mic

The Open Mic will be Limited to three attendees of the ZOOM event, with three minutes per person.

If you are interested in performing in the Open Mic, please email mibrennan@sligococo.ie, NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, 22ND OF FEBRUARY. **Limited Space**

This event will be Streamed on Facebook on the night.

The Word is a collaboration between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature at IT Sligo.

There is no charge for this event.

sligolib@sligococo.ie/ 0719111675