Conor Robin Madigan

Fiction Writer

Evanston, IL

Illinois US

Website:

www.conormadigan.com

Author's Bio

Conor Robin Madigan is the author of Cut Up (The Republic of Letters Books, 2011), and several novel excerpts placed as short stories.

Education:

School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA

Writers Retreats:

Ragdale

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Taking Liberties (Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, 2024)

Great American Fiction Contest (Saturday Evening Post Society, 2020)

30<30 (Starcherone Books, 2011)

Book:

Cut Up (The Republic of Letters Books, 2011)

Journals:

Anemone Sidecar

Charles River Journal

Contrary

Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts

Ekleksographia

Elimae

Fiction At Work

Ginosko Literary Journal

Horla

Lamination Colony

Lit Up Magazine

Moon City Review

Mud Luscious

New York Tyrant

News From The Republic Of Letters

No Colony

OCHO

Pif Magazine

SmokeLong Quarterly

Storyglossia

The Corduroy Mtn.

The Fortnightly Review

Wigleaf

Willows Wept Review

Prizes won:

Rick Demarinis Contest 2023

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Mishima, Nabokov, McDermott, Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, Desai (both), Milton, O'Connor, Hawthorne, Melville, Kawabata, Franzen, Larry McMurtry, Oakley Hall, Iain McGilchrist, Eric Schlosser, Ibuse, Paula Fox, Muriel Spark, Richard G. Stern, Tolkien, Singer,

What I'm reading now:

Greenlanders by Jane Smiley, Grant by Chernow, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, Dreamland by Quinones

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American, German American, Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Atlanta, GA

Georgia

Raised in:

Evanston, IL

Illinois

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Last update: Apr 14, 2026