Abi Hynes
@afahynes.bsky.social
Drama and fiction writer. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member / 4Screenwriting / BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme.
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member / 4Screenwriting / BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme.
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
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We're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
Ahhhhh the feeling of submitting something before anyone comes back to tell you what's wrong with it is BLISS, isn't it?!
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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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
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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
Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
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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
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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
@faberbooks.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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
@faberbooks.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social
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!
See it if you can!
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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!
See it if you can!
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Submit your stuff!!
October is halfway over! Have you submitted anything for the BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR OF THE YEAR?
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Submit your stuff!!
Woohoo!! Such great news, being part of this project was a total highlight of last year 👏✨️
We’re absolutely delighted to share that Levenshulme Old Library is a finalist at this year's Manchester Culture Awards!
We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project.
Huge thanks to all involved.
Wish us luck!
We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project.
Huge thanks to all involved.
Wish us luck!
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Woohoo!! Such great news, being part of this project was a total highlight of last year 👏✨️
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 📺🎥🎞❤️
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 📺🎥🎞❤️
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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 📺🎥🎞❤️
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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💯 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.
September 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
💯 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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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...
£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...
September 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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...
£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...
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559822764879/?discount=DAHLIA25
Short Story September Festival Weekend
Join us for a jam-packed weekend of talks and workshops on mastering short stories.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559822764879/?discount=DAHLIA25
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!
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!
Thrilled to announce the Short Story September Festival returns next month.
Join us for a jam-packed weekend of talks and workshops on mastering short stories.
Book your early bird ticket by 26/8.
Check out the programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-stor...
Join us for a jam-packed weekend of talks and workshops on mastering short stories.
Book your early bird ticket by 26/8.
Check out the programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-stor...
August 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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!
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!
This looks well worth a go 👏
Get on it, screenwriters!
Get on it, screenwriters!
Studio21’s 2025 Script Competition is Now Open.Are you a screenwriter looking for your big break? Studio21 is on the hunt for the next must-watch micro-drama to capture audiences worldwide. 👉 Full details and submission info at: https://www.studio21.com/script/ #Studio21
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This looks well worth a go 👏
Get on it, screenwriters!
Get on it, screenwriters!
July 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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
It's your last ever chance to enter the open to all prize. Submit your new and original story to us: leicesterwrites.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
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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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...
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...
Open Call for Submissions
Send us your ideas for stories you’d like to write for the Bee.
thebeemagazine.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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...
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...
Writing work will never appear in such abundance as when you're desperately trying to take a holiday 🌞🏖 💻 👩💻
July 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Writing work will never appear in such abundance as when you're desperately trying to take a holiday 🌞🏖 💻 👩💻
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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-...
Deadline: 18th July
Full Details: www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...
BFI NETWORK@LFF
Our flagship talent development programme launching at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF).
www.bfi.org.uk
July 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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-...
Deadline: 18th July
Full Details: www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...
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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...
literaryconsultancy.co.uk/2025/05/anno...
Announcing the Michael Langan LGBTQ+ Free Reads 2025 - The Literary Consultancy
TLC hosts 9th year of LGBTQ+ Free Reads for Pride 2025
literaryconsultancy.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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...
literaryconsultancy.co.uk/2025/05/anno...
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...
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...
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.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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...
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...
This week it's a very close call: am I more excited for 28 Years Later... 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️
...OR...
DCC Cheerleaders season 2?? 👯♀️🤸♀️
#WhatAreYouWatching? 📺🎞
...OR...
DCC Cheerleaders season 2?? 👯♀️🤸♀️
#WhatAreYouWatching? 📺🎞
June 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This week it's a very close call: am I more excited for 28 Years Later... 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️
...OR...
DCC Cheerleaders season 2?? 👯♀️🤸♀️
#WhatAreYouWatching? 📺🎞
...OR...
DCC Cheerleaders season 2?? 👯♀️🤸♀️
#WhatAreYouWatching? 📺🎞
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 💡✍️😀
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 💡✍️😀
✨️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...
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...
June 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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 💡✍️😀
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 💡✍️😀
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? 📺
Anyone else watching? What do you make of it?
#WhatAreYouWatching? 📺
June 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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? 📺
Anyone else watching? What do you make of it?
#WhatAreYouWatching? 📺
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!
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!
✨️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...
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...
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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!
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!