Creative

2023
2022
2021
  • 'Alleged Sightings of Monsters' - The Honest Ulsterman, Feb 2021
  • Shortlisted for Society of Authors' Awards
  • 'One and the Same Thing' - EPOCH NO. 3 SUMMER 2021
  • 'Upwardly Mobile' - Catatonic Daughters, Issue 1
  • 'An Ocean Just As Hungry', Cormorant Broadsheet Anthology, part of Tread Softly Fest, Co. Sligo
2020
  • “Bigoted about their art”: Northern Writing and the Counter-Cultural Hegemony 1968 - 2003 - Commissioned essay in a Royal Society of Literature funded collection to launch HUMAN Archive, Jan 2020
  • 'The Letters of 1867', episode of Outliers podcast season 2, produced by Historic Royal Palaces & the Rusty Quill - released 7th Jan 2020
  • 'Eventually Meeting the Sky Somewhere' - Commissioned short fiction in Nothing to Look Forward to But the Past, a TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and Galway 2020 publication curated by Gregory McCartney, Dec 2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
  • The Xenophon Tapes. Stinging Fly. Fear & Fantasy Issue, Winter 2016.
  • ‘Illimitable’. Honest Ulsterman. June 2016
  • Arts Council NI: Support for the Individual Artist Programme (SIAP) grant recipient  
2015
  • Xenophon Project. Scripts Commissioned by Siobhan McGibbon as part of residency at CURUM, NUI Galway. Exhibited City Museum, Galway, December 2015.


Academic Research - Literary Criticism

  • O'Lynn, M.D., 2022. Voices from the Margins: Gender and the Everyday in Women's Pre-and Post-Agreement Troubles Short Fiction by Mercedes del Campo. New Hibernia Review, 26(2), pp.149-151.
  • 'Getting Away From It All: On the Road or On the Run in Peter Hollywood’s Luggage’. The Honest Ulsterman. October 2015: http://humag.co/features/maeve-o-lynn
  • ‘The faltering, flawed frame of memory’: Time, Place and Anxiety in David Park’s The Rye Man’. The Honest Ulsterman. June 2015: http://humag.co/features/maeve-o-lynn
  • 'A bloody gun on my shoulder: Trauma Narrative, the Grotesque and the Body in Sean O’Reilly’s Love and Sleep and The Swing of Things'. The Honest Ulsterman. February 2015: http://humag.co/features/maeve-o-lynn
  • ‘“You’re dying for me”: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Northern Irish Popular Women’s Fiction'. Caroline Magennis and Raymond Mullen (eds). Irish Masculinities: Critical Reflections on Literature and Culture (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011)
  • '“She had to start thinking like a man”: Women Writing Bodies in Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction'. Estudios Irlandeses. Number 5. 2010. 12-24
  • 'Review of: Ingman, Heather, Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women - Nation and Gender’ (London: Ashgate, 2007)'. Contemporary Women's Writing 3(2). 2009. 202-204
  •  ‘Grasping for Modernity’, Fortnight 462, November 2008, 20-21


Other Stuff

2020 - 2021: Bursary Recipient, Irish Writers Centre 
2020 - 2021: Recipient of Arts Council NI Support for Individual Artist Programme
2020: Shortlisted for Zodiak Kids Writers Award
2019: Winner TU Short Story Competition, Red Line Book Festival, Dublin
2019: Longlisted for Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing
2018 - 2019: Recipient of Arts Council NI Support for Individual Artist Programme
2018: Irish Writers Centre, XBorders: Accord Project participant
2018: Shortlisted for Hennessy New Irish Writing: Emerging Fiction
2017 - Member of Women Aloud NI Collective
2016 - 2017: Recipient of Arts Council NI Support for Individual Artist Programme