Stephen M. Irwin

Stephen Mark Irwin (born 1966 in Brisbane) is an Australian novelist and filmmaker.[1]

Biography

Irwin graduated from the Queensland College of Art with tertiary qualifications in Film and Television production. [2]

He is the author of the supernatural thriller, The Dead Path[3] (Published in the UK as The Darkening.[4] The Dead Path was named Top Horror Title in the American Library Association's 2011 reading list [5] and won the Doubleday Book of the Month Club First Fiction Award 2010.[6] Irwin has also won several short story competitions in Australia and overseas, including The Write Stuff and New Millennium Writings.[7] He has had poems published in the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies "Sunweight"[8] and "Eclogues".[9] Irwin's second novel, The Broken Ones, was published by Doubleday in 2011.

Films

Irwin wrote and directed a number of short films, including award winning shorts Car Pool (Best Comedy, St Kilda Short Film Festival 2007[10]) and Ascension (Best Short, Sci-Fi-London 2008[11]). He has written and directed documentaries broadcast on Australian television,[12] and has been engaged as a writer of Australian series drama.[13]

Irwin lives in Brisbane, Queensland with his wife and two children.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Stephen M Irwin Talks The Dead Path, the Green Man, and Spiders!
  2. ↑ Walking the dead path with Stephen M Irwin
  3. ↑ The Dead Path, Hachette
  4. ↑ The Darkening
  5. ↑ "Top genre fiction titles named to 2011 RUSA Reading List".
  6. ↑ "Doubleday Book of the Month Club First Fiction Award 2010".
  7. ↑ Ghosts, spiders and a dead cat are just in a paranormal day
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ 547 eclogues
  10. ↑ Car Pool
  11. ↑ Ascension
  12. ↑ (Boulia 4829); (Boggo Road)
  13. ↑ Series Drama
  14. ↑ Author draws novel from Brisbane's shadows

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