Fiction writer & editor
Jennifer
McMahon
Jennifer McMahon is an award-winning Irish author and editor, and is represented by Brian Langan at Storyline Literary Agency. Her work explores ordinary lives; their grief, their love, their sorrows and joy. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of Frazzled Lit, an online literary journal that publishes the sparkiest prose, creative non-fiction, flash fiction and poetry.
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Jennifer McMahon won third place in the 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, judged by Michael Nath. In 2024, she won the All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public category), which was judged by Marian Keyes, Donal Ryan and Roddy Doyle. In 2023, she was a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, for her novel House Devil, was shortlisted for Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a second-place winner of the Oxford Prize. 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, and was a winning finalist in the Fractured Literary Open Flash competition 2023.
Her work appears in Irish Independent (New Irish Writing, February 2023 and January 2026), Crannog (Spring 2023 and Spring 2025 issues), HOWL, The Galway Review, Variant Lit, the Oxford Prize Anthology (2022 and 2023), the From The Well anthology 2026, Fractured Lit, Heimat Review (issues 2 and 6), Raw Lit, Empyrean, The Orphic Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Mythic Picnic, Books Ireland Magazine, Loft Books (issues IV and V), the Retreat West Swan Song anthology, the Cowboy Jamboree Motel anthology, and The Irish Writers Handbook (2024, 2025 and 2026 editions).