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I love sharing my work live, maybe because I've written for theatre. I'm really shy though, and have to imagine the audience is just my mum with her shining eyes and encouraging smile and then I'm up and running. Here's some top tips from Paul McVeigh Writer...

All stories take place somewhere. Belfast-born fiction writer Paul McVeigh and Coventry-born poet Cathy Galvin invite you to disrupt your usual writing practice and look again at the familiar landscape of home. tickettailor.com/events/miltonk… Paul McVeigh Writer Cathy Galvin The Word Factory

I saw 2 plays Lyric Theatre Belfast this week. 'The Importance of Being Ernest' directed by @JimmyFay was hilarious. I haven't laughed so much in the theatre in years. Then saw 'Good with Faces' written and directed by Oisín Kearney. I loved it. Full of twists and turns and tension.

.Cathy Galvin, is interviewing me Belfast BookFestival about 'The Good Son', 'Big Man' & my collection 'I Hear You'. Actor Tony Flynn will read extracts inc. from 'Big Man', the first time since its award-winning run at Lyric Theatre Belfast. June 10th Crescent Arts Centre belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/-writ…

Great interview with Paul McVeigh Writer on the Polari Prize podcast. Paul will be at WCLF next month teaching our Novel Writing workshop 16-18 July and reading from his new book I Hear You alongside Ross Raisin on 17 Jul westcorkmusic.ie/artists/2025/p…

Delighted to have a piece with Remington Review Was written after getting on the wrong train in Lake Garda last year! 😂

Thanks to Belfast BookFestival for a great time. I loved my panel event on writing for radio, the class yesterday on Reading You Work Aloud and most of all the night talking about my writing with Cathy Galvin. Crescent Arts Centre never looked so good.

Event alert #2! 🚨 SMOKE AND SILK author Fiona Keating joins the Polari Literary Salon, part of the Bradford Literature Festival, with Jason Okundaye, Paul McVeigh Writer and Vg Lee. 05/07/2025 at 6PM 👉More info here: tinyurl.com/38hhcppv📚

17th International Short Story Conference. I'll be in Killarney teaching, reading w/ Éilís Ni Dhuibhne & Judith Nika Pfeifer & in a plenary w/ Robin Hemley, Madeleine D'Arcy , Katie Singer, Evelyn Conlon, Emma Hislop, Rebekah Clarkson & Robert Olen Butler. paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/06/13/int…

A vital chronicle of Belfast’s transformation: Paul McVeigh’s stories “McVeigh captures the ongoing journey of a place and its people learning to live with peace, facing the legacies of the past, and cautiously embracing a new, shared future.” Read our article by Natasha LYNCH

“The short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant.” —Truman Capote buff.ly/Zmicigk

“McVeigh captures the ongoing journey of a place and its people learning to live with peace, facing the legacies of the past, and cautiously embracing a new, shared future.” Wonderful review of the event Belfast BookFestival w/ Cathy Galvin by Shared Future News sharedfuture.news/a-vital-chroni…

This Pride month, join us at #BradfordLitFest for the annual Polari Literary Salon, hosted by Paul Burston @paulburston.bsky.social. With performances from Fiona Keating, Jason Okundaye, Paul McVeigh Writer, and VG Lee. 🎟️ bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/polari-l… #PrideMonth #PolariSalon #LGBTQLiterature

View from my window this morning. Driving into Killarney soon to teach my class to international students of the short story. Looking forward to a week of old friends and new.

All stories take place somewhere. Belfast-born fiction writer Paul McVeigh and Coventry-born poet Cathy Galvin invite you to disrupt your usual writing practice and look again at the familiar landscape of home. mklitfest.org/lookagain Paul McVeigh Writer Cathy Galvin The Word Factory

People say I enjoy my job too much but, honestly, do I look happy? Here’s two stunning views of Inch Strand - wow!

Alan Hollinghurst's 'Our Evenings', a "sweeping novel about the lives, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor", was featured in The New York Times New York Times Books Book Club earlier this year. Alan joins us at WCLF Friday 11 July Picador Books nytimes.com/2025/01/31/boo…

Wonderful news for ⁦CommaJane⁩ who was one of the winners of this year’s Paul McVeigh Residency and has now won one of the Cholmondeley Awards. Jane is a poet who was sponsored by ⁦WritingWestMidlands⁩ societyofauthors.org/2025/06/18/ann…

I've just got my ticket.... any other #amwriting friends zooming too?

Can't believe I'm saying this, but it's Publication Day! #wildmoonrising is officially out in in the wild... I'm a writer a little lost for words, to be honest - I'm stunned, proud, slightly terrified and a lot happy. This took A LOT of years, so I hope it inspires you, too 🌕 x