I Hear You, my collection of BBC Radio 4 short stories, is the joint winner of The McCrea Literary Award 2025. I would shout out to the other winner but they didn’t tell me who it was.

Here’s what the judges said about I Hear You –

“A fascinating collection of post-Troubles short stories, rich in characters, fine observation, memorable and moving images. He handles his subjects with compassion and humour. This is a real page-turner of a collection. It is hard to put the book down or to unglue one’s eyes from it. A compelling, rewarding, and uplifting read.                

Faced with the challenge of producing a chain of interlinked stories (in one part of the collection), McVeigh ingeniously creates a kaleidoscopic series of tales that reflect more of the diversity of Belfast life than ever used to be seen in writing from the north of Ireland.”

You can buy it here…