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 will be coming out soon.
In 2022 Megan received an Agility Award from the Arts Council and her local arts office funded her writing in 2019, 2021, 2022 & 2023.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's Workshops & CLasses
Megan has given workshops to young people 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 give workshops in schools and libraries. 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 the Skerries Bookshop. 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. It is her joy to encourage and inspire every child to reach their individual potential.