Anna Maloney

{{Short description|British screenwriter}}

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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.{{cite web |title=Television Craft in 2003 |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2003/tvcraft |website=awards.bafta.org |publisher=BAFTA Awards |access-date=1 August 2024}}{{cite web |title=Falling Apart |url=http://www.centuryfilmsltd.com/portfolios/falling-apart/ |website=www.centuryfilmsltd.com |publisher=Century Films |access-date=1 August 2024}} {{cite web |title=Brian Hill: Falling Apart |url=https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/brian-hill/work/falling-apart |website=www.curtisbrown.co.uk |access-date=1 August 2024}} The director, Brian Hill, won the BAFTA for Television Craft: New Director - Fiction for the production.

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.{{cite web |title=2017 Winners |url=https://www.wmiff.net/notable-nominees |website=wmiff2017 |publisher=WMIFF |access-date=1 August 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Love Somehow - Promotional video |url=https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/14315/ |publisher=University of Greenwich |access-date=1 August 2024}}

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.{{cite web |title=BBC Four - Unprecedented |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jjh3 |website=BBC |access-date=1 August 2024}}{{cite web |title=BBC Four - Unprecedented, Series 1, Episode 2 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jjjs |website=BBC |access-date=1 August 2024}}

She won the 2022 CWA Debut Dagger (now the CWA Emerging Author Dagger) for her forthcoming{{cite web |title=Anna Maloney |url=https://davidhigham.co.uk/authors-dh/anna-maloney/ |website=David Higham Associates |access-date=1 August 2024 |quote=Anna is working on her debut novel, The 10.12 ...}} novel The 10.12.{{cite web |title=The 10:12 |url=https://thecwa.co.uk/past-winners/the-1012/ |website=The Crime Writers' Association |access-date=1 August 2024 |language=en}} {{cite web |title=Emerging Author Dagger |url=https://thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/debut-dagger/ |website=The Crime Writers' Association |access-date=1 August 2024 |language=en}} It involves a train hijack, a woman who resists it, and the consequences.{{cite news |title=Double Daggers for Celestin at CWA awards as Craven and Hallett also bag prizes |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/double-daggers-for-celestin-at-cwa-awards-as-craven-and-hallett-also-bag-prizes |access-date=1 August 2024 |work=The Bookseller |language=En |quote=Her novel The 10:12 is about a train hijacking and the woman who leads a counter attack, and the aftermath.}} She had been longlisted for the same award in 2019 for The Right Man.{{cite web |title=CWA Announce Longlists for Prestigious Crime Writing Daggers |url=https://thecwa.co.uk/news/cwa-announce-longlists-for-prestigious-crime-writing-daggers-3/ |website=The Crime Writers’ Association |access-date=1 August 2024 |language=en |date=2019}}

Maloney has a degree in humanities from the University of Greenwich and an MA in screenwriting from the University of the Arts London.{{cite web |title=Anna Maloney |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-maloney-39995523/?originalSubdomain=uk |website=LinkedIn |access-date=1 August 2024}} She lives in south east London.