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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Oh I want to read that too

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Cheers Max. Much appreciated

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks Stu. Great suggestion

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Can anyone suggest books like In Cold Blood where the writer went and immersed themselves in a culture/community in order to write about it. The more glaringly obvious the better please.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 22h

Damn it, just successfully wired a wireless printer in less than 15 minutes. Missed out on the Nobel Prize for Physics by 8 hours. Early prediction for next year.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

It’s nothing to do with writers. It’s related to staff cuts and shortages at the university that runs the prize

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Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social · 2d

How sad if we've lost the Edge Hill Prize. It's been important to so many people, including me. We were talking about it at the Leicester Writes event last month with Abi Hynes and Malachi McIntosh, both shortlisted last year.

Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

First time in Private Eye. I just wish it was for something a bit more positive.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

One of my gardens? Do you think I live in a stately home?

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Just watched a spider the size of a mouse run across my bedroom floor. I swear my house must be listed on Spider Air BnB

Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Dear spider living in my front door frame, you know what happened yesterday morning and the morning before and you better believe I’m going to walk face first through your web again tomorrow. Like a person-sized wrecking ball. Bring it. If you dare.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Dear spider living in my front door frame, you know what happened yesterday morning and the morning before and you better believe I’m going to walk face first through your web again tomorrow. Like a person-sized wrecking ball. Bring it. If you dare.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t believe I’ve got to Barbara Pym No.10. This is the one which her publishers rejected in 1963 kicking off a 15 year hiatus. It’s definitely not her best but it’s still infinitely readable and, I think, the only Pym that ventures abroad #myyearwithbp

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 3d

My favourite bit of the new Patricia Lockwood, and there are many, is where she does a metal working class and considers giving up writing to be a metal worker. I recently did a metal working class and afterwards entertained similar thoughts for about a month, (am possibly still entertaining them)

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 5d

These are the books with which I will be rewarding myself in October

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Uch no, this is so sad. What a huge loss for all of us.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 5d

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

www.irishtimes.com

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s Wendy Erskine, Wayne Holloway and Adrian Duncan surrounded by books @noalibisbookstore this evening.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Also I just finished writing a piece on Bas Jan Ader too so I particularly loved that part.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve just finished reading this Luke and I loved it, best thing I’ve read in ages. Your poetry always make me feel like it’s opening up a different part of my brain in a good way. Thanks.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 5d

I’d love to get one too Jillian. Hopefully they’ll appear at some stage soon and I’ll try to get them circulating

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Final, final edits sent off for #FewAndFarBetween Proofs are imminent. Have been on such a long journey with this novel and there have been times when I’ve almost given up on it but reading the final version I’m pretty excited to see it in readers’ hands. I hope people will like it as much as I do.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 6d

@bansheepress.bsky.social open for book submissions from 1-15 Oct 👇

(Pl read the sub guidelines.)

bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press

Banshee Press is open for book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps beyond)....

bansheepress.org

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 6d

“If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable.”

— Evelyn Waugh’s response to an advance copy of Flannery O’Connor’s book A Good Man is Hard to Find

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Ever wonder how Shirley Jackson went about writing The Lottery? Well, here you go. This is my 9th Jackson of the year and it was full of many such overlooked gems #MyYearWithSJ

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 7d

No just Flesh. Which is great. I’ve not made massive in roads with the Booker list this year. Too many things I need to read for work or research already on the TBR pile

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 7d

It’s the end of the month, (and very possibly also, the world as we know it). Here are the nine best books I read in September for the first time.

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