About Karen
Bio
Karen Quinn is an award winning writer and educator. Most recently, she was selected to be one of the BBC Writersroom Voices cohort for 2022. She was also longlisted for the Mammoth Screen TV Writer’s Award 2021, and twice shortlisted for the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting award run by the International Emmy Committee, in both 2014 and 2015. She was also the winner and recipient of the Northern Ireland Comedy Writers programme in 2016, organised by Grand Scheme Media, and a shortlisted writer and director for Jameson First Shot 2016. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Red Planet Prize. She has toured her writing both nationally and internationally. She is also a published children’s writer, with her work broadcast on television and published in short story collections. At the moment, her main focus of creative work is on young women’s mental health. She is also keen to apply her writing skills and creative knowledge in educational settings to promote communication skills and critical thinking.