Anna Maloney

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Anna Maloney is a British television screenwriter.

She won the BAFTA for Television Craft: New writer in 2003 for her Channel 4 television drama Falling Apart, based on interviews with women and men who had experienced domestic abuse. [1] [2] [3] The director, Brian Hill, won the BAFTA for Television Craft: New Director - Fiction for the production. [1]

Sh won the 2017 World Music & Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) award for best screenplay in a short film, for Love Somehow, a film about Caitlin Thomas, adapted from Phil Bowen's The Same Boat. [4] [5]

Her 2020 Safer at Home was one of the Unprecedented series of plays produced by the BBC at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, for which cast and crew participated remotely. [6] [7]

She won the 2022 CWA Debut Dagger (now the CWA Emerging Author Dagger) for her forthcoming [8] novel The 10.12. [9] [10] It involves a train hijack, a woman who resists it, and the consequences. [11] She had been longlisted for the same award in 2019 for The Right Man. [12]

Maloney has a degree in humanities from the University of Greenwich and an MA in screenwriting from the University of the Arts London. [13] She lives in south east London. [8]

References

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  7. "BBC Four - Unprecedented, Series 1, Episode 2". BBC. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  8. 1 2 "Anna Maloney". David Higham Associates. Retrieved 1 August 2024. Anna is working on her debut novel, The 10.12 ...
  9. "The 10:12". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  10. "Emerging Author Dagger". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  11. "Double Daggers for Celestin at CWA awards as Craven and Hallett also bag prizes". The Bookseller. Retrieved 1 August 2024. Her novel The 10:12 is about a train hijacking and the woman who leads a counter attack, and the aftermath.
  12. "CWA Announce Longlists for Prestigious Crime Writing Daggers". The Crime Writers’ Association. 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  13. "Anna Maloney". LinkedIn. Retrieved 1 August 2024.