About Megan Wynne
Megan Wynne - Writer, Speaker and Facilitator
About Megan
Megan Wynne is a writer, speaker and facilitator. She has published two novels for children and her short stories have been published and come runner up in several national writing competitions.
Through her writing and at speaking events, Megan’s shares her experience of building resilience, dealing with anxiety and failure, overcoming rejection, following dreams and taking care of mental health.
With honesty and vulnerability she shares her experience of being bullied at school, living with undiagnosed ADHD and following her unlikely dream of becoming a writer (she has always found spellings difficult!)
Her novels are about feeling different and how friendship can help us overcome the greatest of challenges. She has great affinity with those who feel they don’t belong - which is often all of us.
Megan’s passion is to encourage others to get to know themselves and follow their dreams. She believes that if it is in your heart, it is what you are meant to pursue.
Megan's Writing
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. You can find out more HERE
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 Facilitator
Megan loves to inspire young people and adults with their creativity. She has facilitated 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 given workshops to adults on behalf of the Irish Writers Centre.
She has worked with children with autism, ADHD, dysgraphia, dyslexia and children with many other neurodiversities including high sensitivity. Megan has ADHD herself and it is her joy to encourage and inspire others to reach their individual potential.
