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MADELEINE D’ARCY is an award-winning fiction writer, resident in Cork City, Ireland. She is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and in the UK, but no longer practices law.
BOOKS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014).
LIBERTY TERRACE (Doire Press, 2021).
CORK STORIES (Doire Press, 2024) was co-edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and Laura McKenna.
Madeleine’s first novel will be on submission in 2025. She is currently working on a second novel and a third short story collection.
AWARDS:
LIBERTY TERRACE won a FAPA President’s Award (Bronze) 2022 (US) and was Cork’s One City, One Book 2023.
WAITING FOR THE BULLET was awarded the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
Madeleine won a Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer in 2010.- Her stories have also won or been listed in the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition (twice), the Bridport Prize (UK), the Bristol Prize (UK), the Fish Short Story Competition, the Bealtaine Prize, the Over The Edge Writer of the Year Award (twice), the Kingston Writing School Prize (UK), the Bryan McMahon Short Story Award and the Craft International Short Story Award (US). They have also been commended in the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition (twice).
An earlier version of WAITING FOR THE BULLET was one of six unpublished collections shortlisted for The Scott Prize 2012 (UK).
She received a scholarship to complete an MA in Creative Writing at UCC (1.1., 2014). She has been awarded residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Heinrich Böll Cottage and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
Madeleine gratefully acknowledges support from Cork City Council, the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Libraries, Culture Ireland and UCC School of English.
In 2021 she was appointed to the Arts Council of Ireland Peer Panel.
TRANSLATIONS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET was published in translation by SHKUPI Press (Macedonia, 2016) and by Publishing House ZAVET (Serbia, 2017).
LIBERTY TERRACE was published in translation by SOYSAL Publishing (Turkey, 2023).
A story from WAITING FOR THE BULLET was translated into French by Amélia Vincent and published in Europe revue Littéraire Mensuelle (France, Septembre-Octobre 2019).
A story from WAITING FOR THE BULLET was translated into German by Gabriele Haefs and published in the anthology Sommer-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2023).
A story from LIBERTY TERRACE was translated into German by Gabriele Haefs and published in the anthology Urlaubs-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2024).
LITERARY EVENTS
From 2017 to 2022, Madeleine co-curated Fiction at the Friary, a free monthly fiction event in Cork City, with fellow-writer Danielle McLaughlin.
Madeleine has read and participated in many other events, including: The International Conference on the Short Story in English (Toronto 2010; Vienna 2014, Singapore 2023); Cork World Book Festival; West Cork Literary Festival; Dublin Book Festival; Crosstown Drift at Cork Midsummer Festival; Listowel Writers’ Week; Kinsale Words by Water Festival; Cork International Short Story Festival; Doolin Writers’ Weekend; Dromineer Literary Festival; Bray Literary Festival; Mallow Arts Festival; Shorelines Arts Festival.
Her work has featured on RTE Radio Arena, Sunday Miscellany, The Arts House, Books for Breakfast, Leeside Lives Podcast and Cork Community Radio.
In 2020, she co-produced a series of nine radio programmes called ‘Fiction at the Friary and on Campus’ in collaboration with UCC 98.3 fm, which received a Community Radio Ireland Achievement Award (Silver, Social Benefit, 2021).
A short film of Madeleine’s story ‘Dog Pound’, featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly, is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE&t=1s
OTHER PUBLISHING CREDITS:
Madeleine’s short fiction has also appeared in various newspapers, journals and anthologies, including: Sunday Tribune (2008); Made in Heaven and Other Short Stories (2009); Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press, 2009); Irish Examiner (2010); Irish Independent (2010); Irish Times (2010 and 2015); Necessary Fiction (2011); Short Story (University of Texas, Brownsville, 2012 and 2013); The Penny Dreadful (2013); Long Story Short (2013); Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts (2013); Unbraiding the Short Story (US, University of Central Arkansas, 2014); Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press, 2014); Quarryman (UCC, 2014 and 2015); Headstuff.org (2015); Looking at the Stars–An Anthology of Irish Writing (2016); Sunset Drinking the Black Ocean (2016), Head Land–Ten Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize (UK, 2016), The Elysian–Creative Responses (New Binary Press, 2017); Counterparts–A Synergy of Law and Literature (Stinging Fly Press, 2018), Europe Revue Littéraire Mensuelle (France, Septembre-Octobre 2019), Cork Words (Cork City Libraries, 2020); The Purple House Anthology of New Irish Writing (New Island, 2020); Food, Migration and Diversity – The Many Flavours of the Short Story (Lee and Penn Publishing, US, 2021); The Lonely Crowd (UK, 2022); Diversity of Voices – a Global Storytelling History (Lee and Penn Publishing, US, 2023); Sommer-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2023); Urlaubs-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2024).
TEACHING:
Madeleine has facilitated workshops at Doolin Writers’ Weekend, Listowel Writers’ Week, Cork City Libraries, Mallow Arts Festival, UCC and Flatiron Writers Room (US).
REPRESENTATION:
Brian Langan, Storyline Agency.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Email: [email protected]
MADELEINE D’ARCY is an award-winning fiction writer, resident in Cork City, Ireland. She is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and in the UK, but no longer practices law.
BOOKS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014).
LIBERTY TERRACE (Doire Press, 2021).
CORK STORIES (Doire Press, 2024) was co-edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and Laura McKenna.
Madeleine’s first novel will be on submission in 2025. She is currently working on a second novel and a third short story collection.
AWARDS:
LIBERTY TERRACE won a FAPA President’s Award (Bronze) 2022 (US) and was Cork’s One City, One Book 2023.
WAITING FOR THE BULLET was awarded the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
Madeleine won a Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer in 2010.
An earlier version of WAITING FOR THE BULLET was one of six unpublished collections shortlisted for The Scott Prize 2012 (UK).
She received a scholarship to complete an MA in Creative Writing at UCC (1.1., 2014). She has been awarded residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Heinrich Böll Cottage and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
Madeleine gratefully acknowledges support from Cork City Council, the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Libraries, Culture Ireland and UCC School of English.
In 2021 she was appointed to the Arts Council of Ireland Peer Panel.
TRANSLATIONS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET was published in translation by SHKUPI Press (Macedonia, 2016) and by Publishing House ZAVET (Serbia, 2017).
LIBERTY TERRACE was published in translation by SOYSAL Publishing (Turkey, 2023).
A story from WAITING FOR THE BULLET was translated into French by Amélia Vincent and published in Europe revue Littéraire Mensuelle (France, Septembre-Octobre 2019).
A story from WAITING FOR THE BULLET was translated into German by Gabriele Haefs and published in the anthology Sommer-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2023).
A story from LIBERTY TERRACE was translated into German by Gabriele Haefs and published in the anthology Urlaubs-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2024).
LITERARY EVENTS
From 2017 to 2022, Madeleine co-curated Fiction at the Friary, a free monthly fiction event in Cork City, with fellow-writer Danielle McLaughlin.
Madeleine has read and participated in many other events, including: The International Conference on the Short Story in English (Toronto 2010; Vienna 2014, Singapore 2023); Cork World Book Festival; West Cork Literary Festival; Dublin Book Festival; Crosstown Drift at Cork Midsummer Festival; Listowel Writers’ Week; Kinsale Words by Water Festival; Cork International Short Story Festival; Doolin Writers’ Weekend; Dromineer Literary Festival; Bray Literary Festival; Mallow Arts Festival; Shorelines Arts Festival.
Her work has featured on RTE Radio Arena, Sunday Miscellany, The Arts House, Books for Breakfast, Leeside Lives Podcast and Cork Community Radio.
In 2020, she co-produced a series of nine radio programmes called ‘Fiction at the Friary and on Campus’ in collaboration with UCC 98.3 fm, which received a Community Radio Ireland Achievement Award (Silver, Social Benefit, 2021).
A short film of Madeleine’s story ‘Dog Pound’, featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly, is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE&t=1s
OTHER PUBLISHING CREDITS:
Madeleine’s short fiction has also appeared in various newspapers, journals and anthologies, including: Sunday Tribune (2008); Made in Heaven and Other Short Stories (2009); Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press, 2009); Irish Examiner (2010); Irish Independent (2010); Irish Times (2010 and 2015); Necessary Fiction (2011); Short Story (University of Texas, Brownsville, 2012 and 2013); The Penny Dreadful (2013); Long Story Short (2013); Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts (2013); Unbraiding the Short Story (US, University of Central Arkansas, 2014); Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press, 2014); Quarryman (UCC, 2014 and 2015); Headstuff.org (2015); Looking at the Stars–An Anthology of Irish Writing (2016); Sunset Drinking the Black Ocean (2016), Head Land–Ten Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize (UK, 2016), The Elysian–Creative Responses (New Binary Press, 2017); Counterparts–A Synergy of Law and Literature (Stinging Fly Press, 2018), Europe Revue Littéraire Mensuelle (France, Septembre-Octobre 2019), Cork Words (Cork City Libraries, 2020); The Purple House Anthology of New Irish Writing (New Island, 2020); Food, Migration and Diversity – The Many Flavours of the Short Story (Lee and Penn Publishing, US, 2021); The Lonely Crowd (UK, 2022); Diversity of Voices – a Global Storytelling History (Lee and Penn Publishing, US, 2023); Sommer-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2023); Urlaubs-Lesebuch (dtv Publishing, Munich, 2024).
TEACHING:
Madeleine has facilitated workshops at Doolin Writers’ Weekend, Listowel Writers’ Week, Cork City Libraries, Mallow Arts Festival, UCC and Flatiron Writers Room (US).
REPRESENTATION:
Brian Langan, Storyline Agency.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Email: [email protected]
