Danielle McLaughlin

Writer

Danielle McLaughlin

Danielle McLaughlin is an Irish author. Danielle McLaughlin’s stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The New Yorker, Southword, The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and, and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of short stories Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in Ireland by The Stinging Fly Press in 2015, and subsequently in the UK (John Murray), US (Random House), Germany (Luchterhand), Uruguay (alter ediciones) and Slovakia (Inaque). She edited Counterparts, an anthology of work by writers with legal backgrounds, published in November 2018 by The Stinging Fly Press, proceeds in aid of Peter McVerry Trust. In 2019, she was a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her first novel, The Art of Falling, was published in 2021 by John Murray and was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2022. In 2023 she was a recipient of a Markievicz Award. 

Reviews

The Art of Falling

Nessa McCormack’s marriage is coming back together again after her husband’s affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibit for one of Ireland’s most beloved and enigmatic artists, the late sculptor Robert Locke. But the arrival of two outsiders imperils both her personal and professional worlds: a chance encounter with an old friend threatens to expose a betrayal Nessa thought she had long put behind her, and at work, an odd woman comes forward claiming to be the true creator of Robert Locke’s most famous work, The Chalk Sculpture.



As Nessa finds the past intruding on the present, she must decide whether she can continue to live a lie – or whether she’s ready to face the consequences once everything is out in the open.

Publications

2015

Dinosaurs on Other Planets


A short story collection, published by The Stinging Fly Press in 2015t 2


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2021

The Art of Falling

Get in touch

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Danielle is represented by Lucy Luck of C&W Agency


Lucy Luck - C&W Agency (cwagency.co.uk)


Lucy can be contacted at lucy.luck@cwagency.co.uk

Or 0044 (0) 20 7393 4221

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