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Postcard Stories : The Emma Press Prose Pamphlets - Jan Carson

Postcard Stories

By: Jan Carson, Benjamin Phillips (Illustrator)

Paperback | 30 May 2017

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Each day of 2015 Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Each of these tiny stories was inspired by an event, an overheard conversation, a piece of art or just a fleeting glance of something worth thinking about further. Collected in one volume, Carson's postcards present a panoramic view of contemporary Belfast -- its coffee shops, streets and museums and airports -- and offer it to the wider world. Even as they seem to spring from a writer's solitary perspective, taken together, these observations and their distribution speak of human connectedness. Like a pleasant surprise in the mail, this collection reminds us how many friendships are born and strengthened in a story shared. Illustrated by Benjamin Phillips.
Industry 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

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