- MADELEINE D’ARCY
I am a fiction writer based in Cork City, Ireland.
PUBLICATIONS:
My début short story collection, WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
My second collection of linked short fiction, LIBERTY TERRACE, is scheduled for publication by Doire Press in Autumn 2021. www.doirepress.com/writers/madeleine-darcy
I recently completed my first novel, FEELING SAVAGE.
My short fiction has 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 (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(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).
WAITING FOR THE BULLET was also published by SHKUPI Press (Macedonia, 2016) and by Publishing House Zavet (Serbia, 2017).
AWARDS AND SHORTLISTINGS:
In 2010 I received the Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer.
My short story collection, WAITING FOR THE BULLET, won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
One of my stories came joint second in the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition 2011 and another was shortlisted in 2012. My work has also been shortlisted in 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) and the Bryan McMahon Short Story Award. My stories 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). A short story destined for my second collection was longlisted for the Craft International Short Story Award 2020 (US).
I was awarded bursaries by Cork City Council in 2016 and 2020 and Arts Council bursaries in 2011 and 2021.
LITERARY EVENTS
I have read and participated in various literary events, including: International Conference on the Short Story in English (2010, Toronto; 2014, Vienna); Cork World Book Festival; Dublin Book Festival; Crosstown Drift at Cork Midsummer Festival; Listowel Writers’ Week; Kinsale Words by Water Festival, West Cork Literary Festival; Cork International Short Story Festival; Doolin Writers’ Weekend; Dromineer Literary Festival; Bray Literary Festival.
Since January 2017, I have co-curated Fiction at the Friary, a free monthly fiction event in Cork City, with fellow-writer Danielle McLaughlin. Myself and Danielle run Fiction at the Friary on a voluntary basis. In 2019, Fiction at the Friary ran a project for writers in Direct Provision. In 2019-2020 I co-produced a series of nine radio programmes called ‘Fiction at the Friary and on Campus’, funded by BAI Ireland.
OTHER WORK
I have facilitated writing workshops, given lectures and supervised MA theses in Creative Writing for UCC School of English.
A short film of my story ‘Dog Pound’ featuring distinguished actor the Late Frank Kelly, is available on Youtube.youtu.be/PSl3orufxqE
THIRD LEVEL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
I qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and the UK. I later became a legal editor.
I hold an MA in Creative Writing (1.1., UCC, 2014).
You can contact me by email at madeleinedarcylane@gmail.com. I can also be found on Twitter @MadeleineDL and on Facebook at Madeleine D’Arcy Lane.
I am a fiction writer based in Cork City, Ireland.
PUBLICATIONS:
My début short story collection, WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
My second collection of linked short fiction, LIBERTY TERRACE, is scheduled for publication by Doire Press in Autumn 2021. www.doirepress.com/writers/madeleine-darcy
I recently completed my first novel, FEELING SAVAGE.
My short fiction has 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 (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(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).
WAITING FOR THE BULLET was also published by SHKUPI Press (Macedonia, 2016) and by Publishing House Zavet (Serbia, 2017).
AWARDS AND SHORTLISTINGS:
In 2010 I received the Hennessy Literary Award for First Fiction and the overall Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writer.
My short story collection, WAITING FOR THE BULLET, won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK).
One of my stories came joint second in the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition 2011 and another was shortlisted in 2012. My work has also been shortlisted in 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) and the Bryan McMahon Short Story Award. My stories 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). A short story destined for my second collection was longlisted for the Craft International Short Story Award 2020 (US).
I was awarded bursaries by Cork City Council in 2016 and 2020 and Arts Council bursaries in 2011 and 2021.
LITERARY EVENTS
I have read and participated in various literary events, including: International Conference on the Short Story in English (2010, Toronto; 2014, Vienna); Cork World Book Festival; Dublin Book Festival; Crosstown Drift at Cork Midsummer Festival; Listowel Writers’ Week; Kinsale Words by Water Festival, West Cork Literary Festival; Cork International Short Story Festival; Doolin Writers’ Weekend; Dromineer Literary Festival; Bray Literary Festival.
Since January 2017, I have co-curated Fiction at the Friary, a free monthly fiction event in Cork City, with fellow-writer Danielle McLaughlin. Myself and Danielle run Fiction at the Friary on a voluntary basis. In 2019, Fiction at the Friary ran a project for writers in Direct Provision. In 2019-2020 I co-produced a series of nine radio programmes called ‘Fiction at the Friary and on Campus’, funded by BAI Ireland.
OTHER WORK
I have facilitated writing workshops, given lectures and supervised MA theses in Creative Writing for UCC School of English.
A short film of my story ‘Dog Pound’ featuring distinguished actor the Late Frank Kelly, is available on Youtube.youtu.be/PSl3orufxqE
THIRD LEVEL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
I qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and the UK. I later became a legal editor.
I hold an MA in Creative Writing (1.1., UCC, 2014).
You can contact me by email at madeleinedarcylane@gmail.com. I can also be found on Twitter @MadeleineDL and on Facebook at Madeleine D’Arcy Lane.
