Maura McHugh (writer)

Early life

Career

Awards

Won

• Recipient of the Gordon R. Dickson Scholarship for the 2006 Clarion West Writers Workshop, 2006.
• Best Irish Writer in The Arcade Awards, 2014.
• ICN Award 2015 for ‘Best Irish Writer Published Outside of Ireland’, 2015.

  Nominations

• The Arcade Award in the ‘Best Irish Writer’ category, 2015
• The Geekies 2015 – the Geek Ireland Awards – in the Best Irish Writer category, 2015
• Geek Feminist Award in the Women Write About Comics Awesome Awards, 2014
• British Fantasy Award for Best Comic/Graphic Novel for Jennifer Wilde, along with Stephen Downey & Karen Mahoney, 2014
• Two ICN Awards, 2014
• Geek Ireland's Best Irish Author of 2014, 2014
• Eagle Award for ‘Favourite European Comic Book’ for Jennifer Wilde, 2012
• ICN Award for ‘Best Irish Writer Published Outside of Ireland’, 2013
• The Arcade Award in the ‘Best Irish Writer’ category, 2013

  Collections

• Twisted Fairy Tales, Barron's Educational Series: 1 February 2013. Illustrations by Jane Laurie.
• Twisted Myths, Barron's Educational Series: 1 October 2013. Illustrations by Jane Laurie.

  Comic Books

• Lola Vita – Origins, Drawn by Ron Salas, 2016.
• Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland, story & script by Kim Newman & Maura McHugh; art by Tyler Crook for Dark Horse Comics, 2014-2015.
• Jennifer Wilde: Tulpa, story & script by Maura McHugh; art by Leeann Hamilton for Atomic Diner Comics. Short Story, 2014.
• Róisín Dubh, story & script by Maura McHugh; art by Stephen Byrne and Stephen Daly, for Atomic Diner Comics, 2011 – 2014.
• Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries, story & script by Maura McHugh; art by Stephen Downey for Atomic Diner Comics, 2011 – 2013.
• The Nail, Womanthology comic book anthology, with art by Star St. Germain, edited by Suzannah Rowntree, and published by IDW Publishing,2012
• Colours, of new horror fiction, with art by , published by Topics Press and Ash Pure, 2017

  Short Stories

• Who Hears Our Cries in Forgotten Tongues?, Flash Me Magazine, 2004
• In the Woods, Cabinet des Fées, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2006
• Bone Mother, Fantasy anthology, eds. Sean Wallace & Paul Tremblay, 2007
• Tattoo Destiny, a poem, Jabberwocky 3, ed. Sean Wallace, 2007
• Home, Shroud Magazine, Issues 2, 2008
• Homunculus, Aoife's Kiss, September 2008
• Grave Taster, a poem, in Doorways Magazine #8. It placed second in the magazine's annual poetry competition, 2009
• One pico story on Outshine, 2009*‘Exchange’, a poem, Goblin Fruit, Spring 2009.
• Vic, Black Static, issue 10. 2009 and the Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010, edited by Paula Guran, 2010
• Beautiful Calamity”, Paradox Magazine, issue #13, 2009
• The Diet, Arkham Tales, 2009
• The Garden of Death’, a top ten finalist in Fantasy Magazine's Micro-Fiction Contest, 2009
• The Tamga, Shroud Magazine, issue 6, 2009
• Empty Mind Came Back With the Pearl, M-Brane SF, issue 9, 2009
• The Secret Names of Buildings, M-Brane SF, issue 12, 2009*‘The Solace of Dark Places, a poem, Goblin Fruit, Spring 2010.
• ‘Involuntary Muscle, Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, issue 35, 2011
• Water, Black Static, issue 21, 2011
• Mustn’t Grumble, Voices from the Past, 2011*The Hanging Tree, Black Static issue #38, 2014
• Valerie in the anthology La Femme, edited by Ian Whates from NewCon Press and in Obsidian, 2014
• Family in the anthology Cassilda’s Song, edited by Joe S. Pulver from Chaosium Inc, 2015
• A Decade of Horror Stories by Women, edited by Ian Whates from NewCon Press, 2016
• Zel and Grets in the anthology The Grimm Future, edited by Erin Underwood from NESFA Press.
• Moments on the Cliff’ Crannóg.
• Listen Women in Horror Month Anthology, Acid Cane Comics.
• The Light at the Centre, Uncertainties Volume 1, edited by Brian J. Showers for Swan River Press
• The Fruit of the Tree, Ten Tall Tales, edited by Ian Whates for NewCon Press.
• Spooky Girl, Respectable Horror, edited by Kate Laity for Fox Spirit Books.
• A Rebellious House'', The Madness of Dr. Caligari, edited by Joe S. Pulver for Fedogan and Bremer.

  Plays, Films and Podcasts

• 29 October – 3 November 2012 ‘The Night-Born Sisters’, performed in the Leicester Square Theatre, London.
• 6 May 2016 The Love of Small Appliances, directed by Justine Nakase.
• Bone Mother, Pseudopod, 2009
• The Tamga, Pseudopod, 2010
• Vic Dark fiction Magazine, 2011
• Hotel Training, directed by Conor McMahon, premiered as part of the Hotel Darklight anthology film, 2009
• Bone Mother is being adapted as a short stop-motion animated film by Sylvie Trouvé and Dale Hayward. Produced for the National Film Board of Canada by Jelena Popovic, 2016