About Megan Wynne
Megan Wynne - Writer, Teacher and Speaker
About Megan
Megan Wynne is a writer, teacher and speaker. She has published two novels for children and offers journaling workshops to children, teenagers and adults. Workshops take place in organisations, schools, libraries and online.
Megan’s novels are about feeling different and the importance of the relationship we build with ourselves. She specialises in neurodivergent characters who aren’t understood by themselves or others. In The House on Hawthorn Road, Robbie has dyslexia and in The Spirit of Loughmoe Abbey Gwen has ADHD.
Megan’s passion is to encourage others to get to know and understand themselves through journaling.
Megan's Writing
She has published two novels for children and her short stories have been published and come runner up in national writing competitions.
Megan’s first novel for children, The House on Hawthorn Road, was published by The O’Brien Press in 2019. It has been published as an audio book by Bolinda Publishers and translated into Romanian.
The House on Hawthorn Road is a timeslip novel about a boy from the 1950’s and a girl from the present day time who time travel through a house in Dublin. Robbie has undiagnosed dyslexia and is about to be expelled while Beth is being bullied at a new school. Their unlikely friendship enables them to overcome their problems.
Her second novel for children, The Spirit of Loughmoe Abbey, was published in 2025.
Troubled Gwen doesn’t fit in at boarding school but everything changes when she encounters a mysterious ghost who reveals a family secret. Gwen is bottom of the class, useless at games and doesn’t get along with her classmates, but in 1980s Ireland, nobody has heard of neurodivergence - especially in girls!
Megan represented Ireland on the European Day of Authors in 2024 and was an awardee on the Evolution Programme 2022/23 with the Irish Writers Centre. In 2022 and 2024 Megan received Agility Awards from the Arts Council in Ireland and her local arts office (Fingal County Council) funded her writing in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024.
Megan’s short stories have been shortlisted and come runner up in the following national short story competitions: the RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland, Listowel Writers’ Week Originals, From the Well Short Story Competition (run by the Cork County Council Arts Office), Ireland's Own Magazine, and Writing.ie/ Anam Cara Flash Fiction.
Megan as a Teacher & Speaker
Megan is a qualified teacher and has taught creative writing for twenty years.
At speaking events, Megan shares her experience of building resilience, dealing with anxiety and failure, overcoming rejection, never giving up and the importance of following ones dreams - even if they seem impossible!
With honesty and vulnerability she shares her experience of being bullied at school, living with undiagnosed ADHD for most of her life and following the unlikely dream of becoming a writer (she has always found spellings difficult!)
Megan has facilitated writing workshops at the National Children's Literary Festival in Listowel, the Magic of Stories Festival with Fingal County Council, Rathgar Children's Book Festival and the Children's Books Festival in Irish Libraries She is a member of Poetry Ireland's Writers in Schools Scheme and has facilitated a Writing For Children course on behalf of the Irish Writers Centre.
It is her joy to encourage and inspire everyone to get to know themselves and reach their potential.
