About Megan Wynne
Megan Wynne - Writer and Teacher
About Megan
Megan is a writer and fully qualified teacher. Her 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. Her next novel for children, The Spirit of Loughmoe Abbey, is coming out in 2025.
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.She was an awardee on the Evolution Programme 2022/23 with the Irish Writers Centre.
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 regularly offers workshops in creative writing and journaling for mental well being.
Megan's Workshops & CLasses
Megan gives workshops to young people and adults. She has facilitated workshops at the National Children's Literary Festival in Listowel, the Fingal Festival of Children's Books, Rathgar Chilren'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. In 2024 she represented Ireland on the Day of European authors.
Megan loves encouraging children to write fantastical stories of their own making. In 2007 she founded her creative writing school around a kitchen table in her local bookshop in Skerries. Students return term after term and blossom into happy and confident writers. She has taught 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 every child to reach their individual potential.
