Irwin graduated from the Queensland College of Art with tertiary qualifications in Film and Television production.
Writing career
He is the author of supernatural thriller The Dead Path (due for US release in October 2010). The Dead Path was published in the UK as The Darkening. The Dead Path was the August 2009 selection for The Big Book Club. Irwin has won several short story competitions in Australia and overseas, including The Write Stuff and New Millennium Writings. He has had poems published in the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies sunweight and eclogues.
Directing career
Irwin wrote and directed a number of short films, including award winning shorts Car Pool (Best Comedy, St Kilda Film Festial 2007) and Ascension (Best Short, Sci-Fi London 2008). He has written and directed documentaries broadcast on Australian television, and has been engaged as a writer of Australian series drama.