Patrick Chapman

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Patrick Chapman (born 1968) is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter.{{cite web|title=Irish Writers Online|url=http://www.irishwriters-online.com/chapman-patrick/|work=Patrick Chapman|publisher=Irish Writers Online|access-date=4 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516005212/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/chapman-patrick/|archive-date=16 May 2012|url-status=dead}}

Chapman's first published work was Jazztown, released in 1991 by Raven Arts Press. This was followed five years later by The New Pornography, a collection of poems described as "darkly humorous" by The Irish Times.{{cite news |title=Northern life before the Troubles Collected Poems 1943–1995 by Roy McFadden Lagan Press, 355pp, 7.95; The New Pornography by Patrick Chapman Salmon, 68pp, 65.99; The Devil Himself by John Hughes Gallery Press, 46pp, 10.95/5.95 |author=Fred Johnston |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24977751.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105233203/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24977751.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 November 2013 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=3 August 1996 |access-date=18 April 2012|url-access=subscription }} His story collection, The Wow Signal (Bluechrome Publishing {{ISBN|9781904781752}}) was published in 2007. He also wrote the Doctor Who audio drama, "Fear of the Daleks" (Big Finish, 2007).

Based on his own published story of the same name, he wrote the short drama film Burning The Bed, which starred Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen. Burning The Bed was a prizewinner at the 2004 Worldfest film festival in Houston, Texas{{cite web|title=Ten Irish Productions Win at Texas Worldfest |url=http://www.iftn.com/news/Markets%20News/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=543&tpl=archnews&force=1 |work=Markets News |publisher=The Irish Film & Television Network |access-date=4 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193937/http://www.iftn.com/news/Markets%20News/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=543&tpl=archnews&force=1 |archive-date=29 October 2013 }} and was also named Best Narrative Short at the DeadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.{{cite web|title=the Dublin Quarterly|url=http://www.dublinquarterly.ie/05/p_pchapman.html|work=Patrick Chapman – Poems|publisher=The Dublin Quarterly|access-date=4 April 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218093732/http://www.dublinquarterly.ie/05/p_pchapman.html|archive-date=18 February 2013}}

Chapman has also written five episodes of the children's television series, Garth and Bev, for Kavaleer Productions.{{cite web|title=Animation/ Garth and Bev (2009)|url=http://directory.irishfilmboard.ie/films/793-garth-and-bev|work=Film Directory|publisher=the Irish Film Board|access-date=4 April 2012}} This aired on RTÉ in 2009 and Cbeebies in 2010, and has worldwide distribution.{{cite news |title=Searing sketches of a suburban childhood |author=John McAuliffe |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-28047336.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105233700/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-28047336.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 November 2013 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=26 February 2011 |access-date=18 April 2012|url-access=subscription }}

Chapman is the co-founder, along with writer Philip Casey, of irishliteraryrevival.com, which seeks to create "a place where readers could find books no longer available elsewhere, and where writers could get a new audience for their texts, while stimulating interest in their work as a whole" and where all the books are placed on the site under a Creative Commons License.{{cite news |title=New life for old books |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24832655.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105233519/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24832655.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 November 2013 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=29 April 2006 |access-date=18 April 2012|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=Out of print? Not for long |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/out-of-print-not-for-long-129495.html |newspaper=Irish Independent |date=30 April 2006 |access-date=18 April 2012}}