A winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2023, Jennifer McMahon’s words appear in Crannog literary journal, The Irish Independent newspaper, the Oxford Prize Anthology (both 2022 and 2023), Heimat Review, Empyrean Literary Magazine, Books Ireland Magazine, Loft Books and the final Retreat West Anthology. She won 2nd place in the Oxford Prize in winter 2023 and also had a second story shortlisted in the competition. In 2022, Jennifer was a top ten finalist in the Oxford Prize. She has won both the Bray Literary Festival and the Books Ireland Magazine flash fiction competitions. Her stories have been shortlisted for the Anthology Short Story Award, the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, the Retreat West Prize (short story category), the Fish Publishing Flash Prize, the Wild Atlantic Writing Awards, and the Women On Writing Flash Fiction Prize (twice). Jennifer was also shortlisted for The Literary Consultancy Scholarship in 2022, and was longlisted in the Plaza Prizes Crime First Chapters competition, Fiction Factory’s Novel First Chapter competition, and the Retreat West Prize (flash fiction category). She is represented by Brian Langan at Storyline Literary Agency.
