Maddison O’Donnell is a writer, editor, and publishing professional based in Galway, Ireland. Her work has appeared in Dark Poets Club, Underwood Press’s Black Works, Grim & Gilded, Salmon Creek Journal, and elsewhere. She is the grand prize winner of the 2024 International Dark Poets Prize. In addition to her role as Fiction & Poetry Editor for Abhartach Magazine, she reads and edits poetry for The Turning Leaf Journal and The Mixtape Review.
Selected work
- Poetry
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Confessions of a Hypnopomp
Divinations Magazine, 2025

Confessions of a Hypnopomp
Dark Poets Club, 2024

Spinneret Lament
Dark Poets Club, 2024

In A Rebel Woodland
Dark Poets Club, 2024

A Small Darkness Still Consumes
Dark Poets Club, 2024

Twenty-Seven
Dark Poets Club, 2024

Spinneret Lament
Underwood Press, 2024

Crimson Like Me
Grim & Gilded: A Literary Journal, 2023

Liverpool, 1962
Salmon Creek Journal, 2023