Fin Keegan

Recent poems appear in New Isles Press, Propel Anthology, Channel, Howl, Drawn to the Light Press, Cold Mountain Review and the Amsterdam Quarterly.

My work was shortlisted for Loughborough University’s Overton Pamphlet Prize last summer and the Bournemouth Writing Prize and Fish Poetry Prize the year before.

I edit books of all kinds also.

Get in touch via hq AT sixpens DOT com

Poetry

‘My own sandpit’ – Martello (Dublin, 2025; Issue 6: April 2025)

‘Rosmindle Mysteries’ – New Isles Press (Belfast, 2025; Issue 4: 5 March 2025)

‘The Red Eye’ and ‘Unemployment’ – The Marbled Sigh (New York, 2025; Online: 2 March 2025) – themarbledsigh.com

‘4am Sharp’ – Longlisted for The Poetry Workshop Prize 2025 (Oxford 2025) – Judged by Andrew Jamison – andrewjamison.co.uk/prize

‘The Irish Question’ – Propel Anthology (London, 2024; Ed. Anthony Anaxagorou) – ISBN: 978-1068671227

‘The Irish Question’ – Propel Magazine (London, 2023; Issue Eight (p3); Ed. Harry Josephine Giles) – propelmagazine.co.uk/eight

‘Good News for Modern Neurons’ (Short manuscript collection) – Shortlisted for the 2024 Overton Pamphlet Prize (Loughborough University)

‘Flat Earth’ – Drawn to the Light Press (Meath, 2024; Issue 11, p45)

‘Distant Station’ – Channel Magazine (Dublin, 2024; Issue Ten, p65)

‘Thinking Big’ – Cold Mountain Review, 2023 – Link

‘How to Liberate Planet A’ – Amsterdam Quarterly Yearbook, December 2023 – ISSN: 2542-4807

‘How to Liberate Planet A’ – Amsterdam Quarterly, Issue 36, March 2023 – amsterdamquarterly.org

‘Six Sigma on Glenhest Road’ – Howl, Issue 23 (p137), 2023 – Read at Dublin Book Festival, Dublin Castle, November 2023

‘While Listening to NRK Klassisk’ – Shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize 2023

‘Freelancing’ – Swerve, Issue Two (p92), 2023

‘Home Thoughts at Red Rock, Nevada’ – Shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize 2023

‘From an Upstairs Window’ – The Honest Ulsterman (website), February 2016 – humag.co

Fiction

‘The Petrified Forest’ – Longlisted for the Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2023

The Third Life – Shortlisted for the Penny Dreadful Novella Prize 2016 (Shorter redraft of Utopia Closes)

‘Prelude to an Insurrection, as observed by a deceased High King’ – First Prize, West Mayo District 1916 Short Story Competition (Organiser: D. Langan <dlangan@mayococo.ie>)

‘The Brown Envelope’ – Jonathan Swift Satire Competition 2010, Second Prize

‘Ursula’s Ghost’ – Crannóg literary journal, 2008

Utopia Closes – Semi-finalist, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2008

‘Remembering Albert’ – Broadcast on BBC World Service in 1998 – 15-minute reading by Marcella Riordan

‘Solved world’ – Paragraph literary journal, Rhode Island: 1996

‘On the Paths of the Red Bullet’ – Nonsense, a Trinity College student journal, Dublin: 1987

Plays

‘Hibernian Austerity’ (Produced by Current Theatrics) – Irish Cultural Festival, Cleveland, Ohio: July 21st, 2012

‘Hibernia Rising’ (Produced by Current Theatrics) – Irish Cultural Festival, Cleveland, Ohio: July 12th, 2011

Last of the Vegas Magicians (Produced by Butcher Block Productions) – Las Vegas Little Theatre, Nevada, First performance 4 June 2010

‘Exit Hibernia’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin: 19 March 2009 – Part of 100 Minutes 2009

Grace of the Median (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 19 July 2008 – Staged Reading not full performance

‘Sing, Hibernia’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 5 March 2008 – Part of 100 Minutes 2008 – Also published by Red Rock Review (Nevada: 2009) – Also received a student production at BIFE, Wicklow: 13 April 2010 – Also included in syllabus for Irish Literature course at College of Southern Nevada, taught by Prof. Bob Fuhrel, in 2009–10 academic year

‘Hibernian Acronymy’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 10 April 10 2007 – Part of 100 Minutes 2007

‘Hibernian Rhapsody’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Filmbase, Dublin: 15 May 15, 2006 – Part of 100 Minutes 2006

Kamchatka – 3rd Bed literary journal, New York: 2000

Radio/Broadcast

Radio feature: ‘The Black Irish On Screen’ – Interview with Dr Zelie Asava on her book about racial issues – Broadcast on RTE Lyric FM, 17 July 2020: bit.ly/3bLOhzx – Revised repeat of original production broadcast in May 2014

Radio Documentary: The Ollie Broadcasting Corporation – Funded by BAI – Broadcast on CRC Castlebar, March 2015

Radio Documentary: How Tomás Got His Fiddle Back – Funded by BAI – Broadcast on CRC Castlebar, February 2015

Radio feature: ‘The Black Irish On Screen’ – Interview with Zelie Asava on her book about racial issues – Broadcast on RTE Lyric FM, May 2014

Weekly radio essay: ‘The Circling Fin’ – Broadcast on WRFM Westport from 2011 to 2014

Winner: Electronic Media Awards 2005 & 2006 – In role as producer at KNPR: Southern Nevada/Utah affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR)

Essays/Criticism/Journalism

Letter to the editor: ‘Chomsky on Artificial Intelligence’ – The New York Times, 15 March 2023

Feature article: ‘Ros Muc Apollonian’ – The Irish Arts Review, Summer 2018

Essay: ‘The Secret Heart’ – The Time Traveller, Summer 2017 – Magazine website: thetimetraveller.ie

Criticism: Myles Dungan's Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials – The Irish Story website, May 2013

Criticism: ‘Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses’ – The Irish Times, March 2012

Newspaper column: ‘The Circling Fin’ – Published fortnightly in the Mayo News from 2012 to 2014

E-book: Dubliner: The Story of James Joyce – Green Lamp Media, June 2012 – Available at kobo.com

Criticism: ‘Our Man in Bohemia: Some Novels of Roberto Bolaño’ – Dublin Review of Books, December 2010 – drb.ie

Feature article: ‘All Together Now: Transition Towns Rise in the US’ – NRDC's Smarter Cities website, October 2010

Feature article: ‘Ring of Dust’ – NRDC's Smarter Cities website, August 2010

Criticism: Jean Rouaud’s Of Illustrious Men – The Irish Times, 13 February, 1998

Fin Keegan Recent poems appear in New Isles Press, Propel Anthology, Channel, Howl, Drawn to the Light Press, Cold Mountain Review and the Amsterdam Quarterly. My work was shortlisted for Loughborough University’s Overton Pamphlet Prize last summer and the Bournemouth Writing Prize and Fish Poetry Prize the year before. I edit books of all kinds also. Get in touch via hq AT sixpens DOT com Poetry ‘My own sandpit’ – Martello (Dublin, 2025; Issue 6: April 2025) ‘Rosmindle Mysteries’ – New Isles Press (Belfast, 2025; Issue 4: 5 March 2025) ‘The Red Eye’ and ‘Unemployment’ – The Marbled Sigh (New York, 2025; Online: 2 March 2025) – themarbledsigh.com ‘4am Sharp’ – Longlisted for The Poetry Workshop Prize 2025 (Oxford 2025) – Judged by Andrew Jamison – andrewjamison.co.uk/prize ‘The Irish Question’ – Propel Anthology (London, 2024; Ed. Anthony Anaxagorou) – ISBN: 978-1068671227 ‘The Irish Question’ – Propel Magazine (London, 2023; Issue Eight (p3); Ed. Harry Josephine Giles) – propelmagazine.co.uk/eight ‘Good News for Modern Neurons’ (Short manuscript collection) – Shortlisted for the 2024 Overton Pamphlet Prize (Loughborough University) ‘Flat Earth’ – Drawn to the Light Press (Meath, 2024; Issue 11, p45) ‘Distant Station’ – Channel Magazine (Dublin, 2024; Issue Ten, p65) ‘Thinking Big’ – Cold Mountain Review, 2023 – Link ‘How to Liberate Planet A’ – Amsterdam Quarterly Yearbook, December 2023 – ISSN: 2542-4807 ‘How to Liberate Planet A’ – Amsterdam Quarterly, Issue 36, March 2023 – amsterdamquarterly.org ‘Six Sigma on Glenhest Road’ – Howl, Issue 23 (p137), 2023 – Read at Dublin Book Festival, Dublin Castle, November 2023 ‘While Listening to NRK Klassisk’ – Shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize 2023 ‘Freelancing’ – Swerve, Issue Two (p92), 2023 ‘Home Thoughts at Red Rock, Nevada’ – Shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize 2023 ‘From an Upstairs Window’ – The Honest Ulsterman (website), February 2016 – humag.co Fiction ‘The Petrified Forest’ – Longlisted for the Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2023 The Third Life – Shortlisted for the Penny Dreadful Novella Prize 2016 (Shorter redraft of Utopia Closes) ‘Prelude to an Insurrection, as observed by a deceased High King’ – First Prize, West Mayo District 1916 Short Story Competition (Organiser: D. Langan <dlangan@mayococo.ie>) ‘The Brown Envelope’ – Jonathan Swift Satire Competition 2010, Second Prize ‘Ursula’s Ghost’ – Crannóg literary journal, 2008 Utopia Closes – Semi-finalist, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2008 ‘Remembering Albert’ – Broadcast on BBC World Service in 1998 – 15-minute reading by Marcella Riordan ‘Solved world’ – Paragraph literary journal, Rhode Island: 1996 ‘On the Paths of the Red Bullet’ – Nonsense, a Trinity College student journal, Dublin: 1987 Plays ‘Hibernian Austerity’ (Produced by Current Theatrics) – Irish Cultural Festival, Cleveland, Ohio: July 21st, 2012 ‘Hibernia Rising’ (Produced by Current Theatrics) – Irish Cultural Festival, Cleveland, Ohio: July 12th, 2011 Last of the Vegas Magicians (Produced by Butcher Block Productions) – Las Vegas Little Theatre, Nevada, First performance 4 June 2010 ‘Exit Hibernia’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin: 19 March 2009 – Part of 100 Minutes 2009 Grace of the Median (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 19 July 2008 – Staged Reading not full performance ‘Sing, Hibernia’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 5 March 2008 – Part of 100 Minutes 2008 – Also published by Red Rock Review (Nevada: 2009) – Also received a student production at BIFE, Wicklow: 13 April 2010 – Also included in syllabus for Irish Literature course at College of Southern Nevada, taught by Prof. Bob Fuhrel, in 2009–10 academic year ‘Hibernian Acronymy’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Project Arts Centre, Dublin: 10 April 10 2007 – Part of 100 Minutes 2007 ‘Hibernian Rhapsody’ (Produced by Painted Filly Theatre) – Filmbase, Dublin: 15 May 15, 2006 – Part of 100 Minutes 2006 Kamchatka – 3rd Bed literary journal, New York: 2000 Radio/Broadcast Radio feature: ‘The Black Irish On Screen’ – Interview with Dr Zelie Asava on her book about racial issues – Broadcast on RTE Lyric FM, 17 July 2020: bit.ly/3bLOhzx – Revised repeat of original production broadcast in May 2014 Radio Documentary: The Ollie Broadcasting Corporation – Funded by BAI – Broadcast on CRC Castlebar, March 2015 Radio Documentary: How Tomás Got His Fiddle Back – Funded by BAI – Broadcast on CRC Castlebar, February 2015 Radio feature: ‘The Black Irish On Screen’ – Interview with Zelie Asava on her book about racial issues – Broadcast on RTE Lyric FM, May 2014 Weekly radio essay: ‘The Circling Fin’ – Broadcast on WRFM Westport from 2011 to 2014 Winner: Electronic Media Awards 2005 & 2006 – In role as producer at KNPR: Southern Nevada/Utah affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR) Essays/Criticism/Journalism Letter to the editor: ‘Chomsky on Artificial Intelligence’ – The New York Times, 15 March 2023 Feature article: ‘Ros Muc Apollonian’ – The Irish Arts Review, Summer 2018 Essay: ‘The Secret Heart’ – The Time Traveller, Summer 2017 – Magazine website: thetimetraveller.ie Criticism: Myles Dungan's Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials – The Irish Story website, May 2013 Criticism: ‘Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses’ – The Irish Times, March 2012 Newspaper column: ‘The Circling Fin’ – Published fortnightly in the Mayo News from 2012 to 2014 E-book: Dubliner: The Story of James Joyce – Green Lamp Media, June 2012 – Available at kobo.com Criticism: ‘Our Man in Bohemia: Some Novels of Roberto Bolaño’ – Dublin Review of Books, December 2010 – drb.ie Feature article: ‘All Together Now: Transition Towns Rise in the US’ – NRDC's Smarter Cities website, October 2010 Feature article: ‘Ring of Dust’ – NRDC's Smarter Cities website, August 2010 Criticism: Jean Rouaud’s Of Illustrious Men – The Irish Times, 13 February, 1998