FICTION, CRIME FICTION
Karen Campbell is a fiction writer. Author of nine novels and many short stories, she’s originally from Glasgow, and now lives in Galloway, where she was Writer in Residence at Dumfries and Galloway Council during the COVID pandemic. Karen graduated with distinction from Glasgow University’s Creative Writing Masters, and is the recipient of an SAC New Writer’s Award and a Creative Scotland Artist’s Bursary.
Before turning to writing, she was a police officer in Glasgow, then a press officer with Glasgow City Council. Her novels range from writing about the police, to refugees and asylum seekers, social issues, homelessness, politics and Italy in World War Two. Her ninth novel This Bright Life will be published by Canongate in March 2025.
Karen has tutored and mentored for Moniack Mhor, Scottish Refugee Council, Amnesty, EIBF, Wigtown Festival and Scottish PEN, as well as in prisons, hospitals and local authorities across Scotland. She’s also appeared on Radio 4. Radio 3, Radio Scotland and BBC television’s Big Scottish Book Club.
Karen is available to help with fiction writing, including contemporary and historical, and also crime fiction.
Visit: www.karencampbell.scot