Postcard Stories - The Emma Press Prose Pamphlets
Postcard Stories - The Emma Press Prose Pamphlets
paperback
Published:
30 May, 2017
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910139684 |
| ISBN10 | 1910139688 |
| Number Of Pages | 80 |
| Item Weight | 86 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 7 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | The Emma Press |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
To tell a story as short as these the prose must throughout remain pithy. The author presents the quirks and poignancy of little moments in everyday life with warmth and affection. These small snapshots of the ordinary become extraordinary when painted with her words.
Jackie Law
Carson presents innocuous stories that take place in and around Belfast. Some of these stories are hugely successful, and often haunting in their apparent transparentness.
Siobhan Denton, Sabotage Reviews
Carson’s mini stories themselves oftentimes show a wonderful flight of imagination, blooming out of the seemingly everyday scenes and encounters she comes across in her home town into fully formed dramas and vignettes, myths and fantasies of their own. Testament to Carson’s imagination is the range of stories and themes on offer; no two mini narratives in the book share characters or actions, each its own perfect little imaginarium that covers a whole gamut of sentiments.
-Jade Craddock, Nudge Book
Author's Bio
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has a novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears (Liberties Press, 2014), and short story collection, Children’s Children (Liberties Press, 2016), as well as a micro-fiction collection, Postcard Stories (Emma Press, 2017). Her novel The Fire Starters was published by Doubleday in 2019 and won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland the same year. In 2018 she was the inaugural Translink/Irish Rail Roaming Writer in Residence on the Trains of Ireland. Benjamin Phillips is an artist and illustrator based in Hastings. From his studio by the sea he creates ceramics, paintings and illustrative work. Benjamin enjoys drawing, dogs and a cold beverage. Sometimes all at the same time. benjaminphillips.co.uk