2 Day Workshop: How to Get Noticed with Paul McVeigh

About this event

How to get your work noticed

You’ll find out what competition judges, anthology and journal editors and publishers look for in a short story and how to avoid the rejection pile. You’ll learn how every word counts, get tips on staying focused on your story and where to start the action. You’ll also look at submission opportunities; how to find them and where you should be sending your work.

Paul had edited a journal, three anthologies and judges many international prizes as well as won some himself.

• Paul McVeigh is an adjudicator for The Kerry Group Novel of The Year 2024.

Please be aware that all events at Listowel Writers’ Week will be recorded and photographed for promotional and archival purposes. Your presence constitutes consent to be filmed and photographed. Thank you.

Listowel Writer’s Week: where readers celebrate, and writers find their flow

Listowel Writer’s Week is Ireland’s oldest literary festival, and one of its most prestigious. Famously hospitable, the beautiful North Kerry town of Listowel is internationally renowned as a wellspring of literary inspiration and heritage. The 2024 Listowel Writer’s Week festival programme, exploring the theme Mother Nature, has been curated by the poet Martin Dyar.

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More about Paul McVeigh

Paul’s debut novel, The Good Son, won The Polari First Novel Prize, The McCrea Literary Award and was shortlisted for many others including the Prix de roman Cezam. His short stories have appeared in The Art of the Glimpse, Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly as well as, on RTE Radio, BBC Radio, and Sky Arts. He edited the Queer Love anthology and The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices. His writing has been translated into seven languages.In 2023, his play, Big Man, won an Irish Times Theatre Award and his ten-part short story series, The Circus, aired on BBC Radio 4.Paul co-founded the London Short Story Festival and is associate director of Word Factory ‘the UK’s national organisation for excellence in the short story’ The Guardian. He has judged the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s V. S. Pritchard Short Story Prize, Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition and The Interantional Dylan Thomas Prize among many.