- 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, Ireland 2014) won the Edge Hill Reader's Choice Prize 2015 (U.K).
- In 2010 she received the Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer.
- Her work has been shortlisted and commended in many other competitions.
- She holds an MA in Creative Writing (First Class Honours) from University College, Cork.
- Her second short story collection will be published in Spring 2021 by Doire Press, and she has recently completed her first novel.
- A short film of her story 'Dog Pound', featuring the late Frank Kelly can be viewed on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE
Publication credits include: Sunday Tribune; Stinging Fly; 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 Brownsville Texas, Vols. 20.2, 21.2); Unbraiding the Short Story (US); Surge: New Writing From Ireland; Quarryman; Headstuff.org; The Elysian Anthology; Edge Hill Press Anthology (UK) and Counterparts Anthology. Her work has also featured on RTE Radio programmes Arena and Sunday Miscellany.
Madeleine and writer Danielle McLaughlin co-host a free monthly fiction event in Cork City called Fiction at the Friary. You can contact Madeleine at madeleinedarcy@eircom.net or via Facebook, where her account is Madeleine D’Arcy Lane, or via Twitter @MadeleineDL.
Publication credits include: Sunday Tribune; Stinging Fly; 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 Brownsville Texas, Vols. 20.2, 21.2); Unbraiding the Short Story (US); Surge: New Writing From Ireland; Quarryman; Headstuff.org; The Elysian Anthology; Edge Hill Press Anthology (UK) and Counterparts Anthology. Her work has also featured on RTE Radio programmes Arena and Sunday Miscellany.
Madeleine and writer Danielle McLaughlin co-host a free monthly fiction event in Cork City called Fiction at the Friary.
