Thanks to Martin Doyle for including West Cork Literary Festival ‘Queer Love’ talk on Tuesday 20th April as an unmissable event in The Irish Times.
The event will have me hosting James Hudson, Emer Lyons and Shannon Yee. Tickets 5euro available here.
*Free Event: Interviewing Booker Prize-Winner Douglas Stuart Author of ‘Shuggie Bain’
Although I won’t be travelling to India for the breathtaking Jaipur Literature Festival, I am delighted to be attending virtually to interview the current Booker Prize-Winner Douglas Stuart.
DIVING DEEP WITH DOUGLAS STUART: THE MANY LAYERS OF SHUGGIE BAIN will take place on Feb 21th at 11.30am GMT.
You can check out the full line-up and resister for events here.
“The Good Son is a work of genius from a splendid writer.”
Pulitzer Prize-Winner Robert Olen Butler
“A triumph of storytelling. An absolute gem.”
Donal Ryan
I’m honoured to be teaching at the excellent Faber Academy from June. Here’s a little bit about the course…
28 Weeks – Spend time on your novel, and get it done
Two-Week Sessions – Fit your writing around your other commitments
Small Group – Get to know your fellow writers and their novels
Virtual Classroom – A private space designed specifically for teaching and learning writing skills
One-to-one Feedback – Detailed personal critiques from our tutors, on Skype or over the phone
Regular, Frequent Peer Review – Honest responses from people you trust on your work-in-progress
Focus On Your Novel – No academic essays, no stylistic exercises, just your book
Application Process – To make sure you get the highest quality peer group
24-Hour Tech Support – So you never need to worry that you can’t log in
Find out more today:
Click here to find out what you can expect from your tutor;
Contact us to find out if it’s right for you.”
So it’s rare that I put work online. And I’ve never written anything like this.
I’d love to know what you think of this departure in style – ‘Hollow’.
Here’s what Numero Cinq said about the story…
“To close out our amazing Irish lit series Uimhir a Cúig (No. 5 in Irish) we have wonderfully strange and disturbing short story from the award-winning Belfast novelist Paul McVeigh. Think of Ovid and the brothers Grimm in a mash up, plant-human sex, and the inevitably terrible outcome.”
A little about the magazine…
“Now in its seventh year the magazine has published a stellar array of new and known (international, award-winning) writers including among others, Lynn Coady, Mavis Gallant, Lance Olsen, Lydia Davis, Anthony Doerr, George Szirtes, Andrew Gallix, Kevin Barry, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, John Kelly, Doireann Ni Griofa and Kevin Barry. They’ve published novellas, entire books, plays, poems, translations, fiction, nonfiction, sermons, criticism, memoirs, music, art work, hybrid art, conceptual art, provocative graphics.”
What do you think of Hollow?
The Good Son 