Maria McLoughlin is an emerging writer living and working in Dublin.

About

A writer of stories, born in England and moved to Dublin in the 70s who spent much of her childhood in the West of Ireland which features as an unromanticised backdrop in a lot of what she writes. Studied English in UCD, and graduated at the end of the 80s.

My work explores many themes and includes those of love, heartbreak, family, emigration, addiction and death. While there is a book in the pipeline and I am working on a collection of short stories also.

Influenced by the work of Richard Ford, Hilary Fannin, Claire Keegan, James Cahill, Sarah Manguso, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Niall Williams and more.

Projects

Under consideration for a DLR mentoring grant, successful applicants to be announced November 2025.
In September 2025, I was delighted to have been a participant on Claire Keegan’s How Fiction Works at the Write by the Sea Festival, Wexford.

Feel free to email me.

mariamcloughlinwriter @gmail.com

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Maria McLoughlin is an emerging writer living and working in Dublin.

A writer of stories, born in England and moved to Dublin in the 70s who spent much of her childhood in the West of Ireland which features as an unromanticised backdrop in a lot of what she writes. Studied English in UCD, and graduated at the end of the 80s.

Under consideration for a DLR mentoring grant, successful applicants to be announced November 2025.In September 2025, I was delighted to have been a participant on Claire Keegan’s How Fiction Works at the Write by the Sea Festival, Wexford.

Feel free to email me.

Under consideration for a DLR mentoring grant, successful applicants to be announced November 2025.
In September 2025, I was delighted to have been a participant on Claire Keegan’s How Fiction Works at the Write by the Sea Festival, Wexford.