EP 24: Morgan Murray

My guest’s first book, Dirty Birds, was long-listed for Canada Reads 2021 and the past few months have been an exciting time for him. Join me as I sit down with Morgan Murray and learn about his writing journey and how Dirty Birds came to be.

 

Morgan Murray grew up on a farm near the same backwoods central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning. He now lives in the backwoods of Cape Breton with his wife, cartoonist Kate Beaton, Mary the baby, Agnes the dog, Reggie the cat, Peggy the ditch kitten, and six chickens without names because they all look alike. In between, he has been a farmer, a rancher, a roustabout, a secretary, a reporter, a designer, a Tweeter, a tour guide, a schemer, a variety show host, and a student in Caroline, Calgary, Paris, Prague, Montreal, Chicoutimi, and St. John's. He has a BA in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Economics, Prague, a MPhil in Humanities from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a participation ribbon for beef calf showmanship (incomplete) from the Little Britches 4-H Club, Caroline, Alberta. His writing has been rejected by some of North America’s top publications, and has appeared in a bunch of other places like The Scope, The Walrus, Newfoundland Quarterly, and Echolocation. His short story “KC Accidental” won the Broken Social Scene Story Contest in 2013, and was anthologized in Racket: New Writing from Newfoundland in 2015. His first novel, Dirty Birds has gotten him compared to Kurt Vonnegut, somehow..

 

Get in touch:

https://twitter.com/memurray

https://www.instagram.com/morganeliasmurray 

https://www.facebook.com/morganmurraywrites

 

Morgan's Book at http://www.morganmurray.ca

 

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