Abi Hynes

Abi Hynes is an award-winning drama and fiction writer. She has written an episode of the forthcoming season 4 of GANGS OF LONDON (Sky), and worked in a variety of writers’ rooms, including for CASUALTY, WATERLOO ROAD, and the BBC’s DEATH VALLEY. Her TV pilot script LONG LOST was on the Brit List in 2022, and she is a graduate of Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting Course, as well as the BBC’s TV Drama Writers Programme. She is currently developing a range of original TV dramas with some of the best UK indies.

In radio drama, she adapted ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, which starred Catherine O’Hara, Victor Garber and Sandra Oh, and she co-created and wrote the first 4 episodes of historical drama DARK HARBOUR – both for Audible.

Her first collection of short stories, Monstrous Longing, published by Dahlia Books, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2024. She won the Cambridge Short Story Prize in 2020.