Karen Wright.

I moved to Dorest 19 years ago with my husband, who was relocating his job, and our two cocker spaniels Ralph and Tilly. We immediately fell in love with our surroundings, finding ourselves in a small village with no street lights, a stream at the bottom of the garden and rolling hills and a deserted railway line at the bottom of the lane. 
Here is a landscape that cannot fail to fill you with inspiration, and it is where I began to write again after our first son arrived. I joined an inspirational course with Carol Noble the  screenwriter, who told us that we were each going to write a book. This is how The Wreckers began, it is the first of three books in the Abbotsbury Series of adventures.
I love to explore  along the Jurassic coast, but also to find hidden routes and places inland, many of which appear in my books.

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Publications.

In 2019 I was a winner of the Dorset Writer's prize and published in Dorset Shorts. I have had flash fiction pieces published in Dorset Voices by Roving Press 2012, Narrative Threads by Bridport Story Traders 2015 and This Little World. Stories from Dorset Writers, with Dorset Writers Network 2015. I  have also had articles published  in Adoption Today Magazine and am a contributor to Your Autism Magazine. 
In 2019 I was shortlisted for the Yeovil Prize in the Writing Without Restrictions category and longlisted in the National Literary Trust's 2017 Short Story Prize.

Projects.

I am very excited that Someone Like Me: Dylan's Story is about to be published by Honeybee Books in 2023. This is the first, I hope, of a series of books about children with additional needs, whose stories are not always told in an accessible way. Dylan tells us how he found out that he had Asperger's, and what he learns about his condition, finally  finding a friend who is also Autistic.
I am currently working on the second draft of Catalunya, a dystopian Young Adult book, which will be the first in a trilogy.
I am also enjoying researching for a third book in the Abbotsbury Series for 8 -11 year- olds which is set in the Civil War, and includes the dramatic sieges of Lyme Regis and Abbotsbury.