Yarn Book Club: An Evening with Jan Carson
When & Where
16 Dec 2026, 19:00
Yarn Ballycastle, 24-26 Ann St, Ballycastle BT54 6AD, UK
About
A good yarn over a good book, with the author herself joining the conversation. This December, we’re delighted to welcome Jan Carson to Yarn for our second book club.
We’re reading No Vacancy, Jan’s collection of short stories inspired by her many hotel stays. Behind the doors are strange encounters and surreal happenings, with humour and humanity woven through these tales of temporary homes.
Jan will join us in conversation about the book and her wider writing practice, alongside a short story reading and an opportunity to have your books signed.
Ticket options
Book club with a non-alcoholic drink included
Book club with an alcoholic drink included
About Jan Carson
Jan Carson is a Belfast-based writer who has published four novels, three short story collections and three micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland in 2019. The Raptures was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year.
Jan was the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast in 2025, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has achieved the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Her most recent novel, Few and Far Between (Doubleday UK and Scribner US) and micro-fiction collection, No Vacancy (No Alibis Press), were both published in 2026.
Tickets
Alcoholic drink
£12.00
+£0.30 ticket service fee
Non-alcoholic drink
£10.00
+£0.25 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00