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Abi Hynes

@afahynes.bsky.social
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Drama and fiction writer. GANGS OF LONDON S4. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books. Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member linktr.ee/abifahynes

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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When I'm not writing, I work at the brilliant @ippr.org. We're recruiting for a Publishing Assistant - a great job for someone looking to get into publishing or a freelancer looking for some steady income! www.ippr.org/jobs/publish...
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Publishing Assistant | IPPR
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I'm bringing a writing workshop to Norwich! 💡✍️ You can join me and @writerscentre.bsky.social at the beautiful Dragon Hall in May for a workshop on generating and developing new ideas. Suitable for all kinds of writers and levels of experience! nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/brigh...
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Bright Spark: New Ideas & How to Grow Them with Abi Hynes
Leave the blank page behind in this invigorating workshop designed to bring structure and clarity to your creative ideas.
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I'm running an online masterclass all about voice and dialogue in short fiction for @writershq.bsky.social at 7pm on Wednesday 18th March! Tickets are on sale now - do book a place if you'd like to join me. writershq.co.uk/whq-event/ma...
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How Voice Works in Short Fiction with Abi Hynes - Writers' HQ
Get excited about making your dialogue shine. A generative hour long workshop exploring how to make your fictional dialogue *great*
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Abigail Fenton @abifenton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
If your new year's resolution is to write a novel, I have a Substack series for you! Step by step I'll walk you through – whether you're yet to start or partway through and stuck, if you want to finish a novel this year then come and join us! abigailfentoneditorial.substack.com/p/write-your...
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Write Your Novel in 2026 Part One: What Story Are You Telling?
If you want to write a novel this year, let’s get it done!
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/01/2026
GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!
blue background with the text "OPEN CALL: FLASH FICTION & SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS, Reading period January 1 - March 1, Submit at splitlippress.submittable.com"
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Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Calling British short science-fiction writers who have had stories published this year - window closing soon for Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Get your story in under the door!
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 24/11/2025
Through two in-person weekends at Gladstone’s Library and four online workshops, explore story essentials, character, research, voice, setting and editing. Starts 27 February 2026. I'd love you to join us! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si...
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The Six-Month Writing Course with Kit de Waal - Gladstone's Library
Join Kit de Waal for a six-month journey into the art and discipline of storytelling, with two visits to the UK’s finest residential library.
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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Ahhhhh the feeling of submitting something before anyone comes back to tell you what's wrong with it is BLISS, isn't it?!
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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 01/11/2025
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England. Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
We're now open to publishing enquiries for novellas and short fiction collections, from writers living in the North of England. We're seeking works of strange and literary speculative fiction, of 15,000 to 40,000 words.
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Treated myself to two seasonally-appropriate little bite-sized reads from these queens of the short form. Aren't novellas just lovely things?? @faberbooks.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My dad @davidhynes.bsky.social and I were both totally blown away by @the-rsc.bsky.social's Measure for Measure - a play I studied at A-level but have never seen staged with such clarity and impact. Several actual gasps from the audience. See it if you can!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Submit your stuff!!
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Woohoo!! Such great news, being part of this project was a total highlight of last year 👏✨️
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I taught my first class as a screenwriting lecturer at @metfilmstudio.bsky.social yesterday afternoon! Very exciting to meet my first cohort of students who I can already tell are going to be superstars. This whiteboard was a list of films and TV we love with our whole hearts 📺🎥🎞❤️
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Farhana Shaikh 🍉 @farhanashaikh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
💯 Our afternoon in conversation session features Edge Hill shortlisted @afahynes.bsky.social and this year's winner of the debut prize, Malachi McIntosh @theemmapress.bsky.social This will be a deep dive into putting together a collection, working with a small press, and the impact of prizes.
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Farhana Shaikh 🍉 @farhanashaikh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Join us for a jam-packed programme of events and classes on writing and publishing short stories. £10 off when you book your place today. There are also bursary places for those on a low income. Email me for more info. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-stor...
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I'm looking forward to heading to Leicester this month for Short Story September Festival, organised by my brilliant publisher @farhanashaikh.bsky.social of Dahlia Books ✍️📚🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559822764879/?discount=DAHLIA25
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Short Story September Festival Weekend
Join us for a jam-packed weekend of talks and workshops on mastering short stories.
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm so looking forward to being part of this 👏 I'll be in conversation with Malachi McIntosh and @farhanashaikh.bsky.social about the Edge Hill Prize shortlist and all things short stories. Join us in Leicester in September for what looks set to be a really inspiring weekend!
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This looks well worth a go 👏 Get on it, screenwriters!
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
THE BUMBAG IS BACK #KarenPirie season 2 #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺
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Farhana Shaikh 🍉 @farhanashaikh.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The perfect weekend to sit, write and polish your story for the @LeicesterWrites Short Story Prize It's your last ever chance to enter the open to all prize. Submit your new and original story to us: leicesterwrites.co.uk
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The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A quick reminder that we're currently accepting pitches for stories for publication. The time we're looking for stories - fiction or non-fiction - about what it means to be working class in 2025. Pitch us! Full details: thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...
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Open Call for Submissions
Send us your ideas for stories you’d like to write for the Bee.
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Writing work will never appear in such abundance as when you're desperately trying to take a holiday 🌞🏖 💻 👩‍💻
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Andrew Oldbury @andrewoldbury.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Network@LFF supports up to 15 UK-based #screenwriters, #directors, & #producers working in fiction and documentary to attend a series of industry talks, screenings & sessions at the BFI London Film Festival. Deadline: 18th July Full Details: www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...
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BFI NETWORK@LFF
Our flagship talent development programme launching at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF).
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New Writing South @newwritingsouth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
LGBTQ+ writers with works in progress, you have until July 2nd to submit a short sample of writing to @TLCUK for the chance to win free professional feedback and 1:1 coaching. All applicants also get an invitation to an exclusive writing masterclass! literaryconsultancy.co.uk/2025/05/anno...
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Announcing the Michael Langan LGBTQ+ Free Reads 2025 - The Literary Consultancy
TLC hosts 9th year of LGBTQ+ Free Reads for Pride 2025
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Looking forward to being unattractively smug about this for the rest of the day. Writing is thinking - you can't outsource it. And contact with AI actually makes you lonelier. What are we doing?? time.com/7295195/ai-c...
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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This week it's a very close call: am I more excited for 28 Years Later... 🧟‍♀️ 🧟‍♂️ ...OR... DCC Cheerleaders season 2?? 👯‍♀️🤸‍♀️ #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺🎞
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
One week to go and final reminder to book to join me for my online writing workshop if you've had your eye on it! There are a handful of tickets left if you'd like to spend the evening adding a whole load of new techniques to your writer's toolkit 💡✍️😀
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm really enjoying Dept Q from the wonderful Scott Frank - and it's particularly great to see a British police drama break the mold of the same old tone and style we've mostly just repeated for the last decade or longer. Anyone else watching? What do you make of it? #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Two weeks to go until my online ideas workshop for writers ✍️💡 We'll spend the evening trying some practical exercises to help you both generate new ideas and start to flesh them out. Would love to see you there!
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Today I'm mostly working on my talk for the @bbcwriters.bsky.social Voices groups next week - all about pitching and general meetings. Screenwriters - any tips for writers starting out? What do you wish you'd known about pitching when you first entered the industry?
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Levenshulme Old Library @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Nominations are now open for the Manchester Culture Awards, and we think Ghosts at the Old Library deserves a nod for Best Event. Whether you came to one of our performances, picked up a set of our chapbooks or listened to our podcasts - we’d love your support! www.manchester.gov.uk/cultureawards
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Right excuse me but wtaf was that season finale??? #TheLastOfUs
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I'm so bored of male writers giving us historical female characters who are apparently pretty little wild things just longing to escape the trappings of femininity that society puts them in. Hair, clothes, customs: these are things most women have always made practical use of in ways that suit them
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Fancy a bit of a catch up on #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺 I've just binged & loved #Sirens (Netflix) which is surprising, knotty & nuanced - don't let the wrappings fool you! 🧜‍♀️ Also enjoying #CodeofSilence (ITV) which has done a brilliant job (I think) of centering the lead character's Deaf experience
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
💥 For this bank holiday weekend only, I'm offering a 20% discount on my ideas workshop next month ✍️💡 Please share with anyone who might be interested - the discount code is BANKHOL20 and ends at midnight on Monday! www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-writ...
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
OK this is v niche but I've been watching a lot of Spanish TV drama recently (not telenovellas - I mean Netflix shows like Cable Girls and The Lady's Companion) and they are SO differently put together to British and US stuff. Do they teach screenwriting differently? Does anyone know more?
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I needed something mindless to do after I finished the second draft of my novel, so I slaved over this paint by numbers of a council of cat cardinals. Yesterday I bought it a frame worthy of its glory. BEHOLD.
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thrilled to receive my contributor copy of the 2nd issue of @remainsmagazine.bsky.social, which opens with my story of an eco funeral director whose plans go horribly wrong... 🪦⚰️☠️ Can't wait to read the rest of the wonderful new horror stories in here 👀🖤 remains.uk/products/iss...
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My wife and I both properly loved Sinners - and I'm v glad we saw it in the cinema 👏 Sexy and cinematic and surprising and such great performances all round. All the stuff classics are made of
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I'm so pleased to see people signing up for this workshop 👏💙 I'm planning a session full of practical trips, tricks and exercises to get those ideas muscles working 💪💡 Join us!
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
✨️I'm teaching a one-off online writing workshop on the evening of Monday 23rd June all about IDEAS.✨️ How do you have them on demand? How do you recognise a good one? And when you've had one, what the hell do you do next? Sign up here! 🎟 www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-writ...
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🕳⚠️ A sink hole has opened up on the street outside my house today. Which, y'know, not ideal and all, but I find more myself capable of enjoying Sink Hole Day than I would have imagined
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 28/04/2025
A brief guide to the UK short story scene.
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The Short Story Now
A brief guide to the UK short story scene At Salt, we’ve long believed the short story is one of the most vital, dynamic, and exhilarating forms of writing. It’s where new voices emerge and establishe...
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Loving my latest read so far - A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike. A bit Briefly, A Delicious Life or The Vaster Wilds, but also very much its own creation
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Spent an evening this week listening to this great line-up talk lesbians and history at this sapphic historical fiction panel event, hosted by Queer Lit 🎩 @sflayzell.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thrilled to bits to have a story coming out in issue 2 this spring. Look at that line-up!
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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My wonderful friend @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social's work is always something special. Can't wait for this!
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