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
- ^ Stephen M Irwin Talks The Dead Path, the Green Man, and Spiders!
- ^ Walking the dead path with Stephen M Irwin
- ^ The Dead Path, Hachette
- ^ The Darkening
- ^ "Top genre fiction titles named to 2011 RUSA Reading List".
- ^ "Doubleday Book of the Month Club First Fiction Award 2010".
- ^ Ghosts, spiders and a dead cat are just in a paranormal day
- ^ [1] Archived April 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 547 eclogues
- ^ Car Pool
- ^ Ascension
- ^ (Boulia 4829); (Boggo Road)
- ^ Series Drama
- ^ Author draws novel from Brisbane's shadows