ABOUT ME
 
I’m a fiction writer based in Cork City. 
My début short story collection, WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK). 

My second collection, LIBERTY TERRACE, is scheduled for publication in Autumn 2021.www.doirepress.com/writers/madeleine-darcy

I have recently completed a novel, FEELING SAVAGE.

In 2010 I received the Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer. 

My short fiction has been listed and commended in many other competitions, including the Craft International Short Story Award 2020 (US). Stories have also been published in various journals and anthologies, including Counterparts–A Synergy of Law and Literature (Stinging Fly Press, 2018), Europe revue littéraire mensuelle (septembre-octobre 2019), Cork Words (Cork City Libraries, 2020); The Purple House Anthology of New Irish Writing (New Island, 2020); The Lonely Crowd (Forthcoming, 2021).  I hold an MA in Creative Writing (1st) from UCC. 

Since January 2017, I have co-curated Fiction at the Friary, a free monthly fiction event in Cork City, with fellow-writer Danielle McLaughlin.  I have also co-produced a series of nine radio programmes called ‘Fiction at the Friary and on Campus’, funded by BAI Ireland.

A short film of my story ‘Dog Pound’ featuring distinguished actor the Late Frank Kelly, is available on YouTube.youtu.be/PSl3orufxqE

I was awarded bursaries by Cork City Council in 2016 and 2020 and by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2011 and 2021.
I can be contacted by email: 

​madeleinedarcylane@gmail.com or via facebook as Madeleine D’Arcy Lane or on Twitter @MadeleineDL.

Madeleine after being awarded the Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award on Thursday 2nd July 2015