# Event Details - **Event Name**: Northern Ireland Writers: In Conversation with Jan Carson & Lucy Caldwell - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Nov, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 14 Nov, 2026 at 02:30 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: Join Dr. Coílín Parsons for a conversation with writers Jan Carson and Lucy Caldwell and readings from the writers’ newest works.About this EventJoin Solas Nua and Georgetown University's Global Irish Studies for a conversation with Northern Irish writers Jan Carson and Lucy Caldwell and readings from their new works — Carson’s Few and Far Between and Caldwell’s Devotions — followed by a Q&A. Exact location TBD closer to eventJan Carson is a Belfast based writer who has published four novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland, 2019. The Raptures was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year. Her writing has aired on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and RTE and has been translated into twenty languages worldwide. 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 latest novel, Few and Far Between was published by Doubleday UK in April 2026 and Scribner in the US.Few and Far Between | From the “deeply talented” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning writer Jan Carson comes an alternate history of Northern Ireland’s recent past where the last remaining residents of a haunted archipelago face imminent eviction from their home.Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast and is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and four collections of short stories: Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings and most recently Devotions. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad’. Other awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the 2022 E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.Devotions | "Throughout [Caldwell’s] eight stories, her touch is so light, her observations so perceptive, her dialogue chattering off the page, that she more than underscores her reputation as one of the best practitioners of the short-form craft." —Financial Times - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/northern-ireland-writers-in-conversation-with-jan-carson-and-lucy-caldwell/100001996823064539 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Georgetown University - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: Georgetown University - **lat**: 38.9076089 - **long**: -77.07225849999999 - **full address**: Georgetown University, 3700 O Street Northwest, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Northern Ireland Writers: In Conversation with Jan Carson & Lucy Caldwell - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/7d4f9c2017e8079213221dc5b257241b7ae2f4f66ca3fd204098f80cdd466eaf-rimg-w1200-h600-dcc8d8e8-gmir.jpg?v=1786083579 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Northern Ireland Writers: In Conversation with Jan Carson & Lucy Caldwell being held? - **A:** Northern Ireland Writers: In Conversation with Jan Carson & Lucy Caldwell takes place on Sat, 14 Nov, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Sat, 14 Nov, 2026 at 02:30 pm at Georgetown University, 3700 O Street Northwest, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Northern Ireland Writers: In Conversation with Jan Carson & Lucy Caldwell? - **A:** Northern Ireland Writers: In Conversation with Jan Carson & Lucy Caldwell is organized by Solas Nua. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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