Karen Howie Casey is the winner of the 2026 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for her manuscript All the Little Wide Worlds. She is a former journalist, a short and long-form fiction writer, and a communications professional.
Karen’s work has been published in newspapers, lifestyle, industry and literary magazines, and in online publications. Her short fiction won the 2025 Grenfell Henry Lawson Short Story Competition, placed second in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction 2023 and received an Honourable Mention in the Regional Writers Rise short story prize. An early manuscript was also long-listed in the Australian Vogel Literary Award.
Karen has studied creative writing at LaTrobe University and the Australian Writers’ Centre.
In 2018, she created and independently published a children’s chapter book series to support Australian farmers, receiving a Regional Arts Victoria grant to complete the third and final book. Karen also wrote The Misadventures of the Travelling Quirkus, a humorous memoir about her family’s jinxed road trip through central Australia.
Karen grew up in Melbourne and now lives on a windy Gippsland hill with her people and a handful of mismatched animals.
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