Writing.ie Short Story of the Year

Shortlisted 2021

Jan Carson

The Leaving Place

Jan Carson is the Belfast-based author of two short story collections, two novels and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel, The Fire Starters, won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland in 2019. A new novel, The Raptures, is forthcoming in January 2022.

Jan Carson photo credit: Jess Lowe

Other authors shortlisted in this category...

Roddy Doyle

Alan Murrin

Deirdre Sullivan 

Stuart Neville

Bernard MacLaverty

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