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| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) Ireland |
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Patrick Chapman (born 1968) is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter.[1]
Chapman's first published work wasJazztown, released in 1991 by Raven Arts Press. This was followed five years later byThe New Pornography, a collection of poems described as "darkly humorous" byThe Irish Times.[2] His story collection,The Wow Signal (Bluechrome PublishingISBN 9781904781752) was published in 2007. He also wrote theDoctor Who audio drama,"Fear of the Daleks" (Big Finish, 2007).
Based on his own published story of the same name, he wrote the short drama filmBurning The Bed, which starredGina McKee andAidan Gillen.Burning The Bed was a prizewinner at the 2004 Worldfest film festival inHouston, Texas[3] and was also named Best Narrative Short at theDeadCENTER Film Festival inOklahoma City, Oklahoma.[4]
Chapman has also written five episodes of the children's television series, Garth andBev, for Kavaleer Productions.[5] This aired on RTÉ in 2009 and Cbeebies in 2010, and has worldwide distribution.[6]
Chapman is the co-founder, along with writer Philip Casey, of irishliteraryrevival.com, which seeks to create "a place where readers could find books no longer available elsewhere, and where writers could get a new audience for their texts, while stimulating interest in their work as a whole" and where all the books are placed on the site under aCreative Commons License.[7][8]
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