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MADELEINE D’ARCY is a fiction writer based in Cork City, Ireland.
BOOKS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
LIBERTY TERRACE (Doire Press, 2021) is Cork’s One City One Book 2023.
CORK STORIES, an anthology of short fiction, co-edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and Laura McKenna, is forthcoming in 2024.
Madeleine has completed her first novel. She is currently working on her second novel, a third collection of short fiction and a collaborative art/text project.
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).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
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).
AWARDS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
LIBERTY TERRACE is Cork’s One City One Book 2023. It also won a FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers) President’s Award (Bronze) 2022.
Madeleine won a Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer in 2010.
In 2013 she was awarded a scholarship to attend the inaugural MA course in Creative Writing at UCC.
She has been awarded residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Heinrich Böll Cottage and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
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) and the Bryan McMahon Short Story Award. Her work has 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). Her work has also been longlisted in the An Post Book Awards and in the Craft International Short Story Award (US).
Madeleine gratefully acknowledges support from Cork City Council in 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2023, as well as from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2011, 2020 and 2022.
In 2021 she was appointed to the Arts Council of Ireland Peer Panel.
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.
She has read and participated in various literary 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;
Books for Breakfast Podcast;
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;
Shorelines Arts Festival;
OTHER WORK
A short film of Madeleine’s story ‘Dog Pound’, featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly (R.I.P), is available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE
In 2019-2020 Madeleine co-produced a series of nine radio programmes called ‘Fiction at the Friary and on Campus’, with Danielle McLaughlin. This series was funded by BAI Ireland and received a Community Radio Ireland Achievement Award (Silver, Social Benefit, 2021):
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/fiction-at-the-friary-and-on-campus/id1544269888
Madeleine occasionally facilitates writing workshops and has given lectures and supervised MA theses in Creative Writing for UCC School of English.
THIRD LEVEL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Madeleine is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and the UK, but no longer practices law. She also worked as a senior legal editor for Butterworths Legal Publishers, London and as a freelance editor/project manager.
She holds an MA in Creative Writing (1.1., UCC, 2014).
She has a Diploma in French from the Institut Catholique de Paris (1979-1980).
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Twitter: @MadeleineDL;
Facebook: Madeleine D’Arcy Lane;
Instagram: Madeleine D’Arcy Lane;
LinkedIn: Madeleine D’Arcy.
REPRESENTATION:
Brian Langan at Storyline Literary Agency.
MADELEINE D’ARCY is a fiction writer based in Cork City, Ireland.
BOOKS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
LIBERTY TERRACE (Doire Press, 2021) is Cork’s One City One Book 2023.
CORK STORIES, an anthology of short fiction, co-edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and Laura McKenna, is forthcoming in 2024.
Madeleine has completed her first novel. She is currently working on her second novel, a third collection of short fiction and a collaborative art/text project.
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).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
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).
AWARDS:
WAITING FOR THE BULLET Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
LIBERTY TERRACE is Cork’s One City One Book 2023. It also won a FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers) President’s Award (Bronze) 2022.
Madeleine won a Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer in 2010.
In 2013 she was awarded a scholarship to attend the inaugural MA course in Creative Writing at UCC.
She has been awarded residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Heinrich Böll Cottage and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
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) and the Bryan McMahon Short Story Award. Her work has 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). Her work has also been longlisted in the An Post Book Awards and in the Craft International Short Story Award (US).
Madeleine gratefully acknowledges support from Cork City Council in 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2023, as well as from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2011, 2020 and 2022.
In 2021 she was appointed to the Arts Council of Ireland Peer Panel.
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.
She has read and participated in various literary 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;
Books for Breakfast Podcast;
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;
Shorelines Arts Festival;
OTHER WORK
A short film of Madeleine’s story ‘Dog Pound’, featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly (R.I.P), is available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE
In 2019-2020 Madeleine co-produced a series of nine radio programmes called ‘Fiction at the Friary and on Campus’, with Danielle McLaughlin. This series was funded by BAI Ireland and received a Community Radio Ireland Achievement Award (Silver, Social Benefit, 2021):
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/fiction-at-the-friary-and-on-campus/id1544269888
Madeleine occasionally facilitates writing workshops and has given lectures and supervised MA theses in Creative Writing for UCC School of English.
THIRD LEVEL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Madeleine is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and the UK, but no longer practices law. She also worked as a senior legal editor for Butterworths Legal Publishers, London and as a freelance editor/project manager.
She holds an MA in Creative Writing (1.1., UCC, 2014).
She has a Diploma in French from the Institut Catholique de Paris (1979-1980).
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Twitter: @MadeleineDL;
Facebook: Madeleine D’Arcy Lane;
Instagram: Madeleine D’Arcy Lane;
LinkedIn: Madeleine D’Arcy.
REPRESENTATION:
Brian Langan at Storyline Literary Agency.
