Declan Dineen
Writer | Magician | Host of Checkpoints
“You’re at a party and are introduced to a friendly, polite guy named Hugh. Making small talk, he asks that safe and dull question we’ve all asked when faced with a stranger at a social engagement. ‘So what do you do?’ There’s only really one sane response, ‘It depends on the situation.’”
Writing
My writing career breaks down into the classic literary divide, fiction and non-fiction.
FICTION I write scripts. Check out the writing page for details of work I’ve done and projects currently in development.
NON FICTION I've written freelance articles and interviews for a number of publications including: Gafencu, Edge and The Skinny. You can check out some of my favourites on the portfolio page.
Magic
Sometimes I do magic. People ask me to come to their party, wedding, product launch, business meeting and to mingle with the guests and show them some amazing tricks.
I've written and performed a number of shows too, including two successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Check out the latest review on my portfolio page.
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RT @michaelmphysics: We're all familiar with the soaring anthem Summer of 69, but what happened during the depressing Winter of 69 when… https://t.co/FxafEJz1UD -
RT @Srirachachau: Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, Lochness, goblin, ghoul, a zombie with no conscience. Question, what do these thing… https://t.co/1fGIk2VPMV
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Serbia, Italy, Ukraine are my top three #Eurovision
SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERIMENTS
You can also check out some of my experiments with social media. My project foursquare tales was an ongoing experiment in trans media storytelling. This was nominated for a New Media Writing Prize in January 2014.
In 2013 I thought it'd be fun to try and meet everyone who followed me on twitter. Inexplicably this ended up becoming international news. I did a show about the whole thing at the Edinburgh Fringe, you can view this from the portfolio page.
About me
I grew up in South Wales, the youngest of a large Irish family. I now live in Glasgow, Scotland.