Darren Hynes

Darren Hynes is a writer hailing from Fogo Island, Newfoundland. His first novel: Flight (Creative Book Publishing) was published in 2010 and nominated for the prestigious Relit Award, and his second: Creeps (Penguin Random House) was published to great acclaim in 2013. It was shortlisted for the White Pine Award and selected as one of the top five must-read novels of 2014 by Faze Magazine. Darren holds a BFA (Theater) from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an MFA (Creative Writing) from The University of Guelph and is also a graduate of the prestigious Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theater Training at The Stratford Festival of Canada. Darren has worked as both an actor and writer in television and film. Recent credits include the feature documentary Alias (Bell), as well as the scripted series: Frontier (Netlfix), Nurses (NBC), and the award-winning, coming of age supernatural thriller, Trickster (CBC/CW/Sundance Now) which premiered at Toronto Film Festival, was nominated for 15 Canadian Screen Awards and won the Writers Guild of Canada Award for Best Scripted Series. Darren has been a university professor of English at Memorial University, a creative writing instructor, an acting instructor at the Canadian Centre for Indigenous Theatre and a lead facilitator for the Voices Project, which was a performance-based workshop series that focused on bringing the creative and performing arts to at-risk youth in Ontario, Canada.