Creative
2023
- Smashing and Entering, writer and producer, funded by Northern Ireland Screen
2022
- Across The Grain, Video installation piece (with Laura Morgan)
- Audio Drama , Women of the Ulster Unit (with Laura Morgan)
- Lost in the Wild, Half Hour Audio Hour, produced by Chicago’s Eclectic Full Contact Theatre Company
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
- ‘-it began with the water-‘ – Abridged 0-56: Alt, Feb 2019
- ‘Fermanagh Landscape’ - Community Art Partnership’s Poetry in Motion: Find Anthology, March 2019
- ‘Fermanagh Landscape’ longlisted for Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, March 2019
- ‘There Must Have Been Something’ - Paperclip Journal, Ulster University, April 2019
- Facilitated and produced a commissioned piece for ‘Be Our Guest’ with Atlas Women’s Centre, Lisburn for John Hewitt Society / Historic Royal Palaces, Hillsborough Festival of Literature & Ideas, April 2019
- Facilitated a community creative response and produced a commissioned piece for ‘Everyone A Guest’ responding to new work by John Kindness, commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces for the opening of the Clore Learning Centre at Hillsborough Castle, May 2019
- 'The International Language of Space' (reprint) in The Belfast Debate on Europe with The Tangerine, Sep 2019
- Recipient of SIAP Award from Arts Council NI to create a new poetry pamphlet, Xenophon: Ex Aqua Renascens, launched as part of Xenophon: Life With Life Inside at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, September 2019
- Winner of TU Short Story Competition, part of Red Line Book Festival 2019, Oct 2019
- 'Shadow', Abridged 0-58: Kassandra
- 'the only heat in the house was the fire', The Honest Ulsterman, Oct 2019
- Canto IV' from Xenophon: Ex Aqua Renascens will be included in The Children of the Nation. Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland, a new Culture Matters anthology, Nov 2019
- 'An Ocean Just As Hungry', Issue 4 of The Cormorant Broadsheet, Dec 2019
2018
- Participant in Irish Writers Centre XBorders: Accord Project (Jan – May 18)
- Shortlisted for Hennessy Literary Awards 2018 in category of Emerging Fiction (March 18)
- ‘The Signal’ included in GFA20 curation on The Poetry Jukebox, Belfast (April – Oct 18)
- ‘The Time of Their Coming’ – Written response to House Taken Over, commissioned by Hickey & Hickey (April 18)
- Words by the Water, West Cork Arts Centre (Scripted performance event - June 18)
- ‘Augury’ & ‘Life Journal’ – Abridged: 0-53 Relapse (July 18)
- ‘Other Things Shine’ – Fallow Media (Sep 18)
- ‘The International Language of Space’ – The Tangerine (Issue 7: Dec 18)
2017
- ‘Time to Waste’. Banshee Journal. Issue 5: Oct 2017
- ‘Inside’. New Irish Writing (Irish Times). Sep 2017.
- Xenophon Archive digital storytelling platform. May 2017
- ‘Water’. Honest Ulsterman. March 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
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