Discipline: Literature – fiction

David Keane

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Dublin, IRELAND
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

David Keane is an Irish writer living and working in Dublin City. He writes across several forms including prose, poetry, and scripts. At MacDowell he worked on his second novel, Attrition, which was inspired by the murder of two children in rural 1920s Ireland.

He has been published in several poetry and short story anthologies and has read his work on national radio. His treatment for a contemporary Irish screenplay, Grand, secured him a place on a script development workshop run by Working Title Films.

As well as writing, David is an occasional theatre reviewer for “Arena,” a popular arts and culture show broadcast daily on RTÉ Radio One. He also reviews theatre for The Reviews Hub. With a background in psychotherapy David has facilitated therapeutic writing workshops and has run general creative writing courses. He has an M.A. in scriptwriting from the University of South Wales.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Attrition (Novel-in-progress)

Studios

Calderwood

David Keane worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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