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Graduate of UCC鈥檚 inaugural MA in Creative Writing class wins prestigious award

21 Jul 2015

Madeleine D鈥橝rcy awarded the 拢1,000 Readers鈥� Choice award in this year鈥檚 Edge Hill Short Story Prize

Madeleine D鈥橝rcy, graduate of UCC鈥檚 inaugural MA in Creative Writing class (2013/14) has been awarded the 拢1,000 Readers鈥� Choice award in this year鈥檚 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut collection of stories, Waiting for the Bullet (Doire Press).

Now in its ninth year, the Edge Hill Prize is the only UK award that recognises excellence for a published collection of short stories. The 2015 judging panel included the 骋耻补谤诲颈补苍鈥檚 Chris Power, the 2014 Readers鈥� Choice winner Rachel Trezise and Edge Hill 深夜亚洲福利久久鈥檚 Dr Ailsa Cox.

Kirsty Gunn won the overall prize for her collection, Infidelities (Faber & Faber). The winners were announced at London鈥檚 Free Word Centre on July 2nd.

Speaking at the ceremony, Edge Hill Prize co-ordinator Dr Ailsa Cox, Reader in Creative Writing and English at Edge Hill 深夜亚洲福利久久, praised the entire shortlist as showing 鈥渢he huge range and diversity of short story writing today, and how many risks writers are taking with the form, with stories based on, amongst other things, twitter fiction, autobiographical memories, oral history and role-playing games. All of these collections are winners鈥�.