Hi there,
It’s one week to go before The People’s Book Prize closes on July 10. Perhaps if you haven’t already and had a moment to spare you might vote for The Good Son?
I’d be very grateful.
Author: Paul McVeigh Writer
The Good Son The Irish Times Book Club Choice
Some exciting news. The Good Son has been chosen by The Irish Times as their Book Club choice for next month, July. During the month there will essays & reviews by authors & my UK and foreign publishers, and interviews with me. It will culminate with a live event in Dublin at The Irish Writers’ Centre where I’ll be interviewed by Martin Doyle, assistant literary editor of The Irish Times on July 19 at The Irish Writers’ Centre.
What have you got to look forward to?
The original, 17 yr old, short story The Good Son is based on.
Maybe even a lost chapter never before published…
Contributions from…
Lisa McInerney – winner of the Bailey’s & Desmond Elliot Prize
Laura van den Berg – who Salon.com calls ‘the best young writer in America’
Alison Moore – Booker-shortlisted author of The Lighthouse
Lucy Caldwell – winner of the Dylan Thomas & Rooney Prize among many others
Paul Burston – author of 7 novels & founder of The Polari Salon & Prize
Sarah Hutchings of City Reads Brighton
Danielle McLaughlin – short story wonder and New Yorker contributor
My agent Carrie Kania and publisher Jen Emery-Hamilton & more…
It’s going to be a wonderful month.
Currently finalist for The People’s Book Prize & longlisted for The Polari Prize
Chosen as Brighton’s City Reads 2016
Shortlisted: The Guardian’s ‘Not The Booker’ Prize
Shortlisted: The Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
ELLE Magazine Best Books of 2015
The Irish Independent Top Reads of 2015
One of The Reading Agency Staff Picks Best of 2015
Wales Arts Review – Fiction of the Year
Number 1 Beach Read The Pool
A Gransnet Best Christmas Read for 2015
Savidge Reads and Pam Reader Blogs Books of the Year
My Interview with Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh interview: ‘I spent a long time deliberately not writing’
I talk to the author of Vertigo in The Irish Times about the influence of France, her prolific output of slim works, being an editor and reading aloud. Click here to read.
Those Killer First Chapters: July 2
Those Killer First Chapters: How to grip your reader right from the beginning. Get the attention of literary agents and editors. Literary agent Carrie Kania will give her insights and will read your submission letter when you’re ready.
Simon van Booy will pop in to answer your questions on getting attention on both sides of the Atlantic – for novels, short stories and non-fiction.
Free entry into the evening salon and a copy of The Good Son. Saturday July 2 Waterstones Piccadilly.
Currently finalist for The People’s Book Prize & longlisted for The Polari Prize
Chosen as Brighton’s City Reads 2016
Shortlisted: The Guardian’s ‘Not The Booker’ Prize
Shortlisted: The Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
ELLE Magazine Best Books of 2015
The Irish Independent Top Reads of 2015
One of The Reading Agency Staff Picks Best of 2015
Wales Arts Review – Fiction of the Year
Number 1 Beach Read The Pool
A Gransnet Best Christmas Read for 2015
Savidge Reads and Pam Reader Blogs Books of the Year
National Flash-Fiction Day: Writing Workshop
National Flash-Fiction Day: Writing Workshop
Do you like your fiction short? Then flash-fiction is for you.
Writer Paul McVeigh will lead a class in celebration of the flash-fiction form. Come along and hear some great examples and try writing one yourself.
7 – 9 pm, Tuesday 28th June
Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts
cnr Antrim Rd and Duncairn Ave
Belfast BT14 6BP
This workshop is free but booking is essential as places are limited.
Please phone the Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts on 028 9074 7114 or email: marnie.kennedy@sky.com
Translated into Turkish
I’m very excited that a short fiction of mine “Dig” has been translated in Turkish by Cihan Akkartal for Altzine – a Turkish literary magazine. To read click onto the site – the first box is for your email, the second is the capthca, so just fill in what you see and you can download it.
I went to Turkey earlier this year with The British Council as part of the Authors Meet programme. I visited Izmir and Istanbul and met the magazine’s editor Su Basbugu while there. I hope you enjoy the story and read the rest of the magazine.
This flash fiction Dig first appeared, in English, in Unbraiding the short story – an anthology of the authors attending The 13th International Conference on the Short Story which I attended in Vienna, in 2014. This translation was commissioned by MF Opowiadania – Int. Short Story Festival where I read in Wroclaw, in 2015.
Interview/Review in Sussex Life
Thank you to Sussex Life for this wonderful interview/review.
“This coming-of-age novel, which evokes classics such as The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird, toes the tightrope between tragedy and comedy expertly.”
See you in Belfast?
Hi there.
I’m at the Belfast Book Festival tomorrow, Sunday June 12, teaching my short story class That Killer First Page. I’ll be interviewing Frankie Gaffney and Rob Doyle on Monday 13th too – two Dublin authors who’ve written explosive books on modern, urban, Irish youth.
Hope to see some of you there.
Novel vs Short Story: me, Simon van Booy & Fiona McFarlane
Honoured to be sharing the stage with Fiona McFarlane and Simon van Booy in my favourite venue in the world! Hope some of you can some. Here’s the skinny…
Tonight three authors will debate the pleasures and pitfalls of the two forms as readers and writers of both. Award-winning Simon van Booy joins us from the USA and Fiona McFarlane visits us from Australia, making her first UK appearance. Paul McVeigh, author and co-founder of London Short Story Festival completes the panel with literary agent Carrie Kania chairing. Lively readings, engaging conversations and signings with a glass of wine.
Simon Van Booy is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels, with his most recent novel ‘Father’s Day’, just published in the UK by One World. In 2010, he won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for his collection Love Begins in Winter. His fiction has been translated into seventeen languages.
Fiona McFarlane’s novel, The Night Guest, will be published in 19 countries and 15 languages, and won a NSW Premier’s Prize and Fiona was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist for 2014. Fiona’s short stories have been published in the New Yorker her debut collection ‘The High Places’ is out now.
Paul McVeigh’s debut novel ‘The Good Son’ was chosen as Brighton’s City Reads 2016 and has been shortlisted for numerous awards. His short stories have been published in journals and anthologies and read on BBC Radio 4 and 5. Paul is also the co-founder of the London Short Story Festival and associate director of Word Factory the UK’s premier short story salon.
£5 tickets are available in store, by telephone 020 7851 2400 or by email:piccadilly@waterstones.com
Longlisted for The Polari Prize
The Good Son has been longlisted for The Polari Prize – The Bookseller says it’s ‘the strongest longlist yet’.
This means my debut novel is currently a finalist in The People’s Book Prize, shortlisted for The Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and longlisted for The Polari Prize. I’m delighted.
Have a great weekend. I might celebrate. 🙂
Paul McVeigh 