short stories Archives - Megan Wynne Writer. Speaker. Facilitator. Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:46:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Listowel Writers’ Week https://meganwynne.com/listowel-writers-week-2/ Wed, 28 May 2014 08:07:55 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=1685 Today I am heading down to Listowel in County Kerry to attend their national writing festival. Listowel is my absolute favourite writing festival in Ireland and I’m so excited to be teaching there for the firs time. Not only that, two of my students have won first prize in the writing for youth competitions, and I will be attending the awards ceremony with them this evening. I am also re-launching ...

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]]> Writing Students Win Listowel Writers’ Week Literary Competitons 2014 ! https://meganwynne.com/winning-writing-students/ Mon, 05 May 2014 15:59:40 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=1622 I am delighted to announce that two of the children who attend my creative writing classes have won first place in the Listowel Writers’ Week Literary Writing competition for youth. This is a great honour and I am absolutely delighted for them. Sarah McKenna, who attends my writing classes in Skerries, has won first place in the under twelves category and Ciara Hogan, who attends my classes in Malahide, has ...

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]]> More Good News! https://meganwynne.com/more-good-news/ Tue, 10 May 2011 13:42:46 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/?p=229 This morning I received a very welcome letter in the post: I was informed that my short story ‘The Secret’ has been placed amongst the top five entries for Listowel Writers’ Week Originals, Short Story Competition; the adjudicator highly commended my work. I an delighted! Thank you very much to Eilish Wren, and the team at Listowel Writers’ Week, for taking the time to let me know that you my ...

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]]> Lovely News! https://meganwynne.com/lovely-news/ Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:21:00 +0000 http://meganwynne.com/2011/04/lovely-news/ Last week I was delighted to hear that my short story ‘The Runaway Wife’ has been shortlisted for the ‘From the Well’ short story writing competition run by Cork County Council Arts Office. It will be published in an anthology in May. ‘The Runaway Wife’ is about a woman who leaves her abusive husband to go and live in Tuscany. I have always held the dream to do the same ...

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