Hilary Coyne is a Scottish writer who lives in Oxford. After 20 years working in the public sector in Edinburgh and at Oxford University, Hilary began writing fiction in 2020. Her short stories and flash fiction have been published by The Scottish Arts Trust, Cranked Anvil, Swoop Books, Glittery Literary, Soor Ploom Press and Fudoki Magazine. She won the History Through Fiction Short Story Contest 2024 and in 2023 she was a finalist in the Edinburgh Short Story Award and the Retreat West Flash Mentoring Prize and was longlisted in the Historical Writers’ Association Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition.
This year (2025) Hilary is working on a collection of short stories featuring magpies and developing a novel spanning 200 years that explores one woman’s search for meaning and connection as she uncovers the secrets and stories within an ancient yew tree.
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