Editor
- 1993-1994
- Editor of the Trinity College postgraduate academic journal Alumnus
- Summer 2010
- Co-editor/juror with Christopher Fowler for the Campaign for Real Fear competition: twenty stories selected, and published in Black Static issues 17 and 18.
- 2007 – present
- Writer and editor for the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild’s fortnightly electronic newsletter, and content writer and editor for the IPSG web site and blog.
Collections
- Twisted Fairy Tales
- Barron’s Educational Series: 1 February, 2013. This collection contains twenty classic fairy tales told with a dark slant, with lavish illustrations by Jane Laurie.
Comic Books
- 2011 – 2012
- Róisín Dubh, created by Rob Curley; story & script by Maura McHugh; art by Stephen Byrne and Stephen Daly, for Atomic Diner Comics.
- 2011 – 2012
- Jennifer Wilde, created by Rob Curley; story & script by Maura McHugh; art by Stephen Downey for Atomic Diner Comics.
- 2012
- ‘The Nail’, appearing in the Womanthology comic book anthology, with art by Star St. Germain, edited by Suzannah Rowntree, and published by IDW Publishing.
Juries
- 2009
- Member of the Jury for the Golden Blasters Short Film Competition, Octocon science fiction convention
- Member of the Jury for the Script Pitching Competition at the Galway Junior Film Fleadh
- 2010
- Member of the Jury for the Golden Blasters Short Film Competition, Octocon science fiction convention
- Member of the Jury for the Script Pitching Competition at the Galway Junior Film Fleadh
- 2011
- 2012
Non-Fiction
- Articles
- An article for UK web site, Bad Reputation, for Women in Horror Month, called ‘Women in Horror: Five Recommended Writers‘.
- A blog post for Irish women’s web site, The Anti-Room, called ‘Fly in the Foundation’.
- I contributed to Paul Cornell’s Twelve Blogs of Christmas, and wrote about Twelve Drummers Drumming, in which I give a brief overview of the history of women drummers.
- An article for UK web site, Bad Reputation, for Women in Horror Month, called ‘More Women In Horror for 2013‘.
- I’ve written a short piece called ‘From Fan to Con-runner to Writer – different experiences of conventions’ for issue 15 of the fanzine, Journey Planet.
- Interviews
- Reviews
- A review of Irish horror film Isolation (writer/director Billy O’Brien, 2005) at the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Volume 1.
- A review on Black Static’s Case Notes Blog, where I discuss the new audio drama ‘Is This Seat Taken?’, written by award-winning horror writer Sarah Langan, which is part of a new series of horror audio drama by Tales from Beyond the Pale.
- A review of the massively multiple player online role playing game, World of Warcraft’s new expansion, Cataclysm, for the Hi-Ex! Blog (plus my own blog post about it)
- For the Salon Futura magazine I participated in a podcast with several reviewers discussing the 2010 graphic novels and/or comic book series that are eligible for the Hugo for Best Graphic Story.
- I reviewed the first deluxe edition of the post-apocalyptic comic book series Y: The Last Man for the UK Feminist web site The F-Word.
- My review of Lucille, the graphic novel by the artist/writer/singer Ludovic Debeurme, appeared on the Forbidden Planet International blog.
- I offered my choices in the ‘Best of 2011′ series of posts on the Forbidden Planet International blog.
- I’ve reviewed the graphic novel Hector Umbra, written and drawn by Uli Oesterle, and published by Blank Slate Books on ComicBuzz.
- On ComicBuzz I reviewed Underwire, a collection of cartoons by Jennifer Hayden, and published by Top Shelf Productions.
- I reviewed the graphic novel anthology, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, volume 1, published by Archaia Entertainment on ComicBuzz.
- On the Forbidden Planet International blog I reviewed Irish artist/writer Leann Hamiliton’s self-published comic Finn & Fish.
Plays
- 29 October – 3 November, 2012
Podcasts
- February 2009
- ‘Bone Mother’, is podcast at Pseudopod
- January 2010
- ‘The Tamga’, was released as a podcast on Pseudopod.
- April 2011
- ‘Vic’ is podcast at Dark fiction Magazine in its issue titled ‘The Waste land’.
Short Films
- October 2009
- ‘Hotel Training’, a short script, directed by Conor McMahon, premiered as part of the Hotel Darklight anthology film.
Short Stories
- August 1993
- ‘Mirror, Mirror’, College Green
- October 2004
- ‘Who Hears Our Cries in Forgotten Tongues?’, Flash Me Magazine
- May 2006
- ‘In the Woods’, Cabinet des Fées, Vol. 1, No. 1
- July 2007
- ‘Bone Mother’, Fantasy anthology, eds. Sean Wallace & Paul Tremblay
- December 2007
- ‘Tattoo Destiny’, a poem, in Jabberwocky 3, ed. Sean Wallace
- March/April 2008
- ‘Home’, in Shroud Magazine, Issues 2
- September 2008
- ‘Homunculus’, in Aoife’s Kiss, September 2008
- March 2009
- ‘Grave Taster’, a poem, in Doorways Magazine #8. It placed second in the magazine’s annual poetry competition.
- April 2009
- One pico story on Outshine
- ‘Exchange’, a poem, in Goblin Fruit, Spring 2009.
- Three twitter stories, here, here, and here on Thaumatrope
- “Vic”, in Black Static, issue 10.
- May 2009
- “Beautiful Calamity”, in Paradox Magazine, issue #13.
- ‘The Diet’, Arkham Tales
- ‘The Garden of Death’, a top ten finalist in Fantasy Magazine’s Micro-Fiction Contest.
- July 2009
- ‘The Tamga’, in Shroud Magazine, issue 6.
- September 2009
- ‘Empty Mind Came Back With the Pearl’, M-Brane SF, issue 9
- December 2009
- ‘The Secret Names of Buildings’, in M-Brane SF, issue 12
- April 2010
- ‘The Solace of Dark Places’, a poem, in Goblin Fruit, Spring 2010.
- October 2010
- ‘Vic’, in the Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010, edited by Paula Guran (Prime Books)
- January 2011
- ‘Involuntary Muscle’, in Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, issue 35
- February 2011
- ‘Water’, in Black Static, issue 21.
- May 2011
- ‘Mustn’t Grumble’, in Voices from the Past.
- Forthcoming
- ‘Moments on the Cliff’, in All Hallows, the journal of the Ghost Story Society.
