Fin Keegan

I have been writing since I was a boy. At this point, it seems a lifelong condition.

Bio: Last of the Vegas Magicians, a play, appeared in the Las Vegas Fringe Festival 2010. My short play, Exit Hibernia, appeared in March 2009 at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Dublin. Three companion pieces, Hibernian Rhapsody, Hibernian Acronymy, and Sing, Hibernia, were performed in Temple Bar in the three years previous. My novel Utopia Closes was a semi-finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in 2008. In the 1990s, an excerpt from another novel, Grace and the Fusilier, was performed on the BBC World Service. Shorter pieces have appeared in various small magazines. At that time, I also ran a literary review, The Second Circle.

Drama with Date/Place of First Performance

• Hibernia Rising (Short Play), Current Theatrics
  • Abbey Hall Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio: July 12th, 2011
• Last of the Vegas Magicians (Play), Butcher Block Productions
  • Las Vegas Little Theatre, Nevada: June 4th, 2010
• Exit Hibernia (Short Play), Painted Filly Theatre
  • Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin: March 19th, 2009
• Grace of the Median (Play), Painted Filly Theatre
  • Project Arts Centre, Dublin: July 19th, 2008
• Staged Reading
• Sing, Hibernia (Short Play), Painted Filly Theatre
  • Project Arts Centre, Dublin: March 5th, 2008
  • Published by Red Rock Review, Nevada: 2009
• Also received a student production at BIFE, Wicklow: April 13th, 2010
• Hibernian Acronymy (Short Play), Painted Filly Theatre
  • Project Arts Centre, Dublin: April 10th, 2007
• Hibernian Rhapsody (Short Play), Painted Filly Theatre
  • Filmbase, Dublin: May 15th, 2006
• Read Text
• Kamchatka (Play)
  • Published by 3rd Bed, New York: 2000
• Read Excerpt

• “The Brown Envelope” (Story), Jonathan Swift Satire Competition 2010, Second Prize
• “Ursula’s Ghost” (Story), Crannóg, Galway: 2008
• Utopia Closes (Novel), Amazon, 2008
  • Semi-finalist, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award [ABNA]: they published an excerpt
  • Now offline but mirrored here as an “ABNA EBook”
  • Another Excerpt
• “Remembering Albert” (Story), BBC World Service, London: 1998
• Grace and the Fusilier, (Novel), Unpublished: 1997.
  • Read Excerpt
• “The Sleeper” (Story), Paragraph, Rhode Island: 1996
• “On the Paths of the Red Bullet” (Story), Nonsense, Dublin: 1987

Non-Fiction

• Numerous Book Reviews, The Second Circle: 2000-Present.
  • Read Texts
• Not much trouble getting bylines: I am also the Editor
• “Pack for Borneo” (Article), Earborne, Nevada Public Radio: 2006
  • A description of podcasting for listeners
• “Spiderman v Quicksilver” (Article), National Geographic’s Green Guide : 2004
  • Read Text
• “Ireland and World War I” (Article), The Shebeen website: 1998
  • Now offline but mirrored here
• “Jean Rouaud’s Of Illustrious Men” (Review), The Irish Times: 1998
  • Read a Longer Version Here
• Numerous Articles, Student Press Review, New York: 1998