About
Dr Maeve O’Lynn is a writer, artist, and filmmaker.
Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Stinging Fly and Banshee, and she has previously been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Zodiak Award with BBC Writersroom, and the Society of Authors' Awards. She won the TU Short Story Competition at Dublin’s Red Line Festival. She was awarded an Octopus Scholarship from The Novelry in 2023, and has been the recipient of bursaries from Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Irish Writers Centre.
Her audio drama The Letters of 1867 was commissioned by Outliers and produced by Historic Royal Palaces; she also co-wrote Lost in the Wild, an audio drama produced by Chicago's Eclectic Full Contact Theatre Company.
She is an artist-filmmaker, whose work was recently featured at the Sydney International Women’s Film Festival. Maeve began collaborating on The Xenophon Project with visual artist Siobhan McGibbon in 2015. She works in the disability sector.
Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Stinging Fly and Banshee, and she has previously been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Zodiak Award with BBC Writersroom, and the Society of Authors' Awards. She won the TU Short Story Competition at Dublin’s Red Line Festival. She was awarded an Octopus Scholarship from The Novelry in 2023, and has been the recipient of bursaries from Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Irish Writers Centre.
Her audio drama The Letters of 1867 was commissioned by Outliers and produced by Historic Royal Palaces; she also co-wrote Lost in the Wild, an audio drama produced by Chicago's Eclectic Full Contact Theatre Company.
She is an artist-filmmaker, whose work was recently featured at the Sydney International Women’s Film Festival. Maeve began collaborating on The Xenophon Project with visual artist Siobhan McGibbon in 2015. She works in the disability sector.
