We are absolutely thrilled to have the one and only Jan Carson joining us to run a short story workshop on Monday March 16th at 7pm!

This lively, interactive and incredibly practical workshop will equip you with everything you need to begin or continue your journey with the short story. Combining discussion, writing exercises and teaching drawn from Jan’s own experience you can expect to explore all the components of the short story including character development, plot, structure, voice, editing and much more.

Over the course of the, you’ll have a chance to develop and begin writing your own short story. Jan will also offer hard learnt advice on the publishing process. This workshop is suitable for both beginner writers and those keen to reinvigorate their writing practice. All you need is an imagination, a pen and a notebook.

About the tutor:

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 novel, The Raptures was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year. Her writing has been aired on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and RTE. She has been translated into almost twenty languages worldwide.

She was the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast in 2025 and is 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 from Doubleday in early 2026 and will be published by Scribner in the US.

Info:

The full price for this workshop is £40.

Half of the tickets are reserved for Pay What You Can pricing, which you can purchase in the ‘additional info’ section below. Please email us at hello@extrateeth.co.uk to make sure we have you registered.

The workshop will be held on Zoom, which has captioning for those who need it.

The link to the workshop will be sent via email the day before the workshop.