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Paul McVeigh's debut novel, The Good Son (Salt, 2015), won the Polari First Novel Prize and was named by Kerry Hudson in the Observer as one of the ‘exceptional working-class novels from the last few years’. He has twice won the McCrea Literary Award and has toured the UK and Ireland with his plays and comedy. His short stories have appeared in the Irish Times, Faber's Being Various and Kit de Waal's Common People anthologies, on BBC Radio 3, 4 and 5, and Sky Arts. Paul was fiction editor at the Southword Journal, co-edited the Belfast Stories anthology and co-founded the London Short Story Festival. @paul_mc_veigh