“I gave up a permanent pensionable job in Dublin Corporation in 1979 to write a novel. By 2009, I had completed two pages.” From my application to pursue a masters’ degree in Creative Writing at Trinity College
Having procrastinated for a couple of years… decades actually… I finally began writing almost by accident when devising and directing in the theatre. Then in 2010 I stepped away from the theatre for a while, and, between lecturing and other freelance arts activity, I began to write fiction from my North County Dublin home. I am still (2012) mainly in the theatre, and this Literary Extracts section contains pages from the three plays that made up The Border Chronicles trilogy (1998 – 2008).
The “Short Fiction” section has the full text of Airport Roundabout, a story published in Commotions, (OWC Press, Trinity College Dublin 2009), while the “Poetry” page has the text of a spoken word piece for the Flat Lake Festival a few years ago.
Enquiries about other texts or the novel in progress to declangorman@yahoo.co.uk
Declan Gorman 