Fiction Writer
Fiction about the private interior lives of women who appear, to everyone around them, to be completely fine.
Zelda is a primary school administrator who manages other people's crises with such practised efficiency that her own life has become almost entirely theoretical. Set across a single week in inner-suburban Melbourne.
Read moreMadeleine Speed is an Australian writer of literary fiction.
Her work is preoccupied with the texture of ordinary life — institutional spaces, the pressure of competence, memory surfacing in inconvenient moments, and the private interior lives of women who appear, to everyone around them, to be completely fine.
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Madeleine is actively seeking literary representation for her debut novel. A full manuscript and synopsis are available on request.
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