Claire Hynes

Claire Hynes writes fiction, creative non-fiction, essays and theatre monologues. Her writing has appeared in publications including Wasafiri journal of international contemporary writing, the Bath Short Story Award Anthology, What the Water Gave Us anthology, Lighthouse literary journal and Tangled Roots anthology. Her theatre monologues have been performed at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. Claire has been selected as an international Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellow for 2025-26. She was a winner of the Commonword monologue writing competition (2016), and she has been listed for the Bath Short Story Award (2014) and commended in the Words and Women ‘about’ monologue competition (2014). She presented the BBC World Service documentary 'My Granny, The Slave,' in connection with her creative writing research (2022). Claire is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing programme at UEA and she was awarded a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA in 2012. She previously worked as a BBC documentary film-maker and as the news editor for black British newspaper, The Voice. She has won national Creative Industry awards including a George Viner Memorial Award for journalism, a CRE Race in the Media Award and a Royal Television Society award.