Joel Thomas Hynes

Joel Thomas Hynes is a Canadian writer, actor, and director. His first novel, Down to the Dirt, took the Percy Janes First Novel Award, made the Atlantic Book Award and Winterset Award shortlists, and reached the longlist for the ReLit Award and also for the International Dublin Literary Award; it became a film in which he played the lead. We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, his 2017 novel, took a Governor General's Award for fiction in English and the Winterset Award, and it was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Hynes created, executive produced, and starred in the CBC comedy Little Dog. His screen and stage credits include The Con Artist (2010), Rabbittown, Crackie, Hunting Pignut, and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, which he also wrote. His novella Say Nothing Saw Wood was adapted as Cast No Shadow, earning him the Michael Weir Award and a Canadian Screen Award nomination.