Postcard Stories 2

by Jan Carson

Illustrated by Benjamin Phillips.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Humor, Irish Literature

74 pages, Paperback

Published August 6, 2020

About the author

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts development officer currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has a BA in English Literature from Queen’s University Belfast and an MLitt. In Theology and Contemporary Culture from St. Andrew’s University, Scotland. Jan has had short stories published in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, has had two of her plays produced for the Belfast stage and is a current recipient of the Arts Council NI’s Artist’s Career Enhancement Bursary. Her first novel, “Malcolm Orange Disappears” will be published by Liberties Press, Dublin on June 2nd 2014.

Reviews

[Willem · Rating 2 out of 5]

(2,75) Much like with Jan Carson's first Postcard Stories book a lot of the enjoyment here comes from the mixture of the imaginative, surreal, biographical, and comical. The briefness of the stories forces Carson to make contained statements but that limited space also becomes her downfall as few of these really manage to grow beyond the mere words on the paper, something I did find more of in her first collection.

[BrianC75 · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little gem of a book. Great idea and very well crafted. Word pictures are so novel, humorous informative and generally engaging.

And the author's a Belfast girl to boot!

Excellent!

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a wonderful collection of stories literally written on the back of a postcard, Jan Carson started this as a way to kick start her writing after writers block and loved to so much she kept on going, hence why this is collection 2 (with a fabulous red cover!). A wide range of stories are contained within where the fantastical meets the ordinary, she has an incredible imagination and discipline to keep to such a concise size, it works wonderfully.

[Ewan · Rating 3 out of 5]

While everyone’s limited to how many people they can see in person it just seems like a good idea to pack as many one page stories of characters with funny habits, small secrets and worries into our heads to make up for lockdown isolation.

[Jasmin (notashotasmyteapot) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simply delightful!

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This will not be on the blog. This collection is even better than the first postcard stories. Here's to hoping that there will be a third volume.

[Gerri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Number 13, page 16 was my favourite short story

[Aaron McCormick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another magical book of short postcard-sized stories from a local author - these stories ranged all around the world this time - perhaps this is why I found it not as good as the first one?