Creative writer & photographer

Declan is an emerging creative writer, playwright and satirist, with over a decade’s worth of diverse writing experience, spanning novels, short stories, musicals, screenplays, and essays alongside rich research practices. He is also an accomplished photographer and award-winning filmmaker. Declan applies his versatility to Business Development as an agile Bid Writer.

His current project is a sci-fi novel manuscript, ‘United Untied’, set in Saudi Arabia in 2070, where a dating service can reveal your soulmate by peering into an alternate universe.

Bio

Writing

2022 Blockchain Copywriter – wrote nine thought-leader articles plus an opinion piece.
2022 Transmissions From Sienna, published short story.
2021 Plucking Heirs (Musical) – the fall of the Habsburg empire on the eve of WW1, from a suicide pact to an assassination of the heirs, book and libretto
2020 Bitesize Barbie (Musical) – an outdoor gathering turns sour when a dominatrix makes a guest’s nostrils her lair, and two mates shrink themselves down to fight her, book and libretto. Shortlisted and ranked sixth in a COVID-19 themed musical competition, MTM
2018 My 45-day French Bikepacking Tour.

Photography

2012-2021 Portraiture
2016-2018 Europe

Education

2022 Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) degree with distinction, RMIT Melbourne
2012 Diploma of Screen & Media, FCF Melbourne

Interests

Futurology
Linguistics and etymology
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology, diasporas and anthropology

My writings

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