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2nd January 2015

1/21/2015

Dear Everyone,

I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and all good things in 2015.

I also want to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who provided help and support to me during 2014. I truly appreciate it and could not have managed without you all.

2014 was a busy year for me. In January, myself, Audrey Brennan and Tara Quirke made a short film called ‘Dog Pound’. In April, my short story collection, Waiting For The Bullet, was launched at Cork World Book Festival in Triskel Christchurch. In October, I completed my MA in Creative Writing at UCC (First Class Honours – phew!). I also attended the International Short Story Conference in Vienna, Dublin Book Festival, West Cork Literary Festival and Cork International Short Story Festival, and there was a whole heap of other stuff going on that I can hardly remember now…

All this would not have been possible without the support of many wonderful people, far too numerous to mention individually here.

However, I must especially thank Andrew Lane for his quiet heroism!

I truly appreciate you all.

Let's hope 2015 will be a fine year.

XXX Madeleine

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Madeleine D’Arcy was born in Ireland and later spent thirteen years in the UK. She worked as a criminal legal aid solicitor and as a legal editor in London before returning to Cork City in 1999 with her husband and son. She began to write fiction in 2005.

Madeleine’s début collection of short fiction, Waiting For The Bullet (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).

In 2010 she received a Hennessy X.O Literary Award for First Fiction as well as the overall Hennessy X.O Literary Award for New Irish Writer.

Her work has been short-listed and commended in many other competitions.

Publication credits include: Sunday Tribune; Made in Heaven and Other Short Stories; Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press); Irish Examiner; Necessary Fiction; Irish Independent; Irish Times; The Penny Dreadful; Long Story Short; Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts; Short Story (University of Texas, Brownsville, Vols 20.2, 21.2); Unbraiding the Short Story (Ed. Maurice A Lee); Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press, 2014) and Quarryman (UCC/Bradshaw Books, 2014), and Headstuff.org (10 July 2015).

New stories are forthcoming in The Elysian Anthology and Edge Hill Press Anthology 2016.

Her work has also featured on RTE Radio programmes Arena and Sunday Miscellany.

Madeleine was a scholarship student on the inaugural MA in Creative Writing in UCC from 2013-2014 and obtained First Class Honours.

A short film of her story ‘Dog Pound’, featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly, was premièred at the Hennessy Literary Awards in April 2014 and can be viewed on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE

She ran Probys Quay Writers’ Workshop from 2009-2011. She has facilitated workshops at West Cork Literary Festival 2014, Doolin Writers’ Weekend 2015 and in Cork City. She is currently writing a novel.

You can contact Madeleine at madeleinedarcy@eircom.net or via Facebook, where her account is Madeleine D’Arcy Lane, and she will get back to you as soon as possible.

2nd January 2015

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