Red Wax Rose - Darlyn's first book is a poetry and short story collection that traces one woman's journey from loneliness and heartbreak to self-love and actualization. Learn more at redwaxrose.com. To view her reading from Red Wax Rose, click here.
Darlyn's short story,"Shame," was critiqued in 2004 by visiting author Sena Jeter Naslund in Connie May Fowler's Winter With the Writers master class at Rollins College.
Darlyn's short story, "Wings" appeared in the collection Shifting Gears in 2002.
Her short story "Black Eyed Susan" was published in the e-litmag Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
Darlyn's poem "Slumming" won Honorable Mention in the Thomas Burnett Swann Poetry Contest, and was published in the literary magazine Revelry.
Access Darlyn's interview by Sara Schlossman on Poetic Logic, the poetry segment of The Arts Connection Show on National Public Radio's Orlando affiliate, WMFE (90.7 FM).
Visit Brushing, the Art and Literary Magazine of Rollins College. Darlyn served as Fiction Editor of Brushing in 2003, and as Editorial Assistant in 2004 and 2005.
Click here to access the Mt. Dora Festival of Art and Literature, which awarded Darlyn Second Prize for Poetry in 2003 for her poem "At the Redlight." In 2004, the Festival awarded Darlyn second prize in creative nonfiction for her short story, "Valentine and Buster." In 2005, she won first prize for her creative nonfiction story "Four Words Written in Blue," and in 2006 again garnered the top prize for "Girls."
