Maura McHugh

Current

• Blogger at World Conference of Screenwriters
• Webmaster, Newsletter Editor and Blogger at Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild
• Writer, Web Designer and Consultant at Babblogue.com

Past

• Technology Host at Online.ie
• Lotus Notes System Administrator, Network Operations Centre Manager, & Office IT Manager at ELF Technologies
• Lotus Notes System Administrator & Office IT Manager at TeleHouse Ltd.

Education

• FAS Screen Training Ireland
• Clarion West Writers Workshop, Seattle
• National University of Ireland, Galway

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Maura McHugh’s Summary

My aim is to become a full-time professional writer: to create original short stories, novels, plays, and screenplays, and to see them published or produced.

I work part time as a webmaster, blogger, and consultant, and otherwise I write as much as possible.

Work published:
"Mirror, Mirror", a short story, in College Green
"Who Hears our Cries in Forgotten Tongues?", a short story, in Flash Me Magazine
"In the Woods", a short story, in Cabinet des Feés
"Bone Mother", a short story, in Fantasy, an original anthology
"Tattoo Destiny", a poem, in the Jabberwocky 3 anthology
"Home", a short story, in Shroud Magazine
"Homunculus", a short story, in Aoife's Kiss
"Grave Taster", a poem, in Doorways Magazine *
"Vic", a short story, in Black Static
"The Diet", Arkham Tales
"Exchange", a poem, Goblin Fruit
"Beautiful Calamity", in Paradox Magazine, issue #13.
"The Garden of Death", a finalist in Fantasy Magazine's Micro-Fiction Contest.
"The Tamga", in Shroud Magazine, issue 6.
"Empty Mind Came Back With the Pearl", M-Brane SF, issue 9 (forthcoming)
"Water", a short story, in Doorways Magazine (Forthcoming)
"Moments on the Cliff", a short story in All Hallows (forthcoming)
"The Solace of Dark Places", a poem, in Goblin Fruit, Spring 2010 (forthcoming)
"Training Room" a short film directed by Conor McMahon, which will be part of the Hotel Darklight anthology film (forthcoming).
"The Secret Names of Buildings", in M-Brane SF, issue 12 (forthcoming)
Roisin Dubh: a three-issue comic book series co-written with Rob Curley (forthcoming)

*"Grave Taster" placed second in Doorways Magazine's annual poetry competition.

Maura McHugh’s Specialties:

writing, editing, blogging, social media networking,

Additional Information

Maura McHugh’s Interests:

art, cinema, history, filmmaking, photography, research, technology, writing

Maura McHugh’s Groups:

Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild
Galway Playwrights and Screenwriters Group
Clarion West
Codex Writers' Group

•    LinkEds & writers
•    ProSeries Alumni
•    Tweeple
•    National University of Ireland Galway
•    Women in New Media
•    Screenwriting For Hollywood
•    The Clarion Workshops
•    Codex - The Hungry Edge of Speculative Fiction
•    SOCIAL MEDIA IRELAND
•    Social TV - next generation media (Web 2.0, mobile, digital video broadcast, DTV, STB, MHEG, IPTV)
•    ARTS IRELAND
•    Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild
•    Open Coffee Galway
•    World Conference of Screenwriters

Maura McHugh’s Honors:

Recipient of the Gordon Dickson Memorial Scholarship to attend Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2006.
Second place in the Doorways Magazine annual poetry competition.

Maura McHugh’s Contact Settings

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