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 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 shortlisted 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 Brownsville Texas, Vols. 20.2, 21.2); Unbraiding the Short Story (Ed. Maurice A Lee); Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press, November 2014) and Quarryman (UCC/Bradshaw Books, 2014) and Headstuff.org (10 July 2105). 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 (First Class Honours).
A short film of her story 'Dog Pound', featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly, was premiered at the Hennessy Literary Awards in April 2014 and can be viewed on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE
She ran Proby's Quay Writers' Workshop from 2009-2011. She facilitated workshops at West Cork Literary Festival 2014 and Doolin Writers' Weekend 2015. She currently teaches Intensive Fiction workshops once a month in Cork. 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.
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).
Her work has been shortlisted 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 Brownsville Texas, Vols. 20.2, 21.2); Unbraiding the Short Story (Ed. Maurice A Lee); Surge: New Writing From Ireland (O’Brien Press, November 2014) and Quarryman (UCC/Bradshaw Books, 2014) and Headstuff.org (10 July 2105). 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 (First Class Honours).
A short film of her story 'Dog Pound', featuring the distinguished Irish actor Frank Kelly, was premiered at the Hennessy Literary Awards in April 2014 and can be viewed on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSl3orufxqE
She ran Proby's Quay Writers' Workshop from 2009-2011. She facilitated workshops at West Cork Literary Festival 2014 and Doolin Writers' Weekend 2015. She currently teaches Intensive Fiction workshops once a month in Cork. She is currently writing a novel.