Denise Deegan is an Irish novelist, screenwriter and producer, published by Penguin Random House and Hachette with awards from SCBWI and Publishers Weekly. Writing as Aimee Alexander, her women’s fiction novels have become international bestsellers, translated into German, Dutch and Turkish. Her writing for teenagers includes the much-loved contemporary trilogy, The Butterfly Novels: And By The Way, And For Your Information and And Actually and the epic crossover novel of Irish revolution, Through the Barricades. And For Your Information was nominated for an Irish Book Award and is on Coverfly’s Red List, while Through the Barricades won a coveted SCBWI SPARK Award.

PAGE Award-winning screenwriter, Denise’s scripts tackles issues of loss and injustice often through humour. Winner of The Pitch Film Fund, Denise’s comedy short, The Innkeeper, has been produced by Reel Issues Films while two features and two TV series are in development with a variety of Irish, UK and Finnish companies. Two of her scripts received Screen Ireland development funding.

Denise is a ScreenCraft Top 50 Finalist, a Final Draft Big Break Semi-finalist, a Roadmap Writers Top 25 Finalist and has placed at AFF and the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Her short film, 3 Down, won the Shedunnit Short Script Competition at WOFFF. Her radio play, The Last PTA Meeting, won the Little Wonder Radio Play Competition. Denise won the Raindance Pitching Competition, January 2021, following a general anaesthetic! Denise is represented by Peter MacFarlane of MacFarlane Chard.

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