Sue Murtagh

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Sue Murtagh's debut book, We're Not Rich, won the 2025 Atlantic Book Awards Readers' Choice Award. We're Not Rich was published by Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press and edited by award-winning writer Alexander MacLeod.

Sue lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a graduate of the Alistair MacLeod mentorship program (Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia) and the Humber School for Writers, where she worked with mentor Danila Botha and graduated with distinction.

Her writing has appeared in The Walrus, The Nashwaak Review, Grain, carte blanche, the Humber Literary Review, The New Quarterly, and yolkliterary.ca.

Sue was the 2025 judge for the David Adams Richards award for the New Brunswick Writers' Federation.

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We're Not Rich by Sue Murtagh
"Just read one of these stories in The Walrus and enjoyed it thoroughly(despite the presence of rodents :) "
We're Not Rich by Sue Murtagh
"𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒘! 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑱𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒅𝒂

I read 'We’re Not Rich' with a flush rising up my neck. Was author Sue Murtagh WATCHING me? How else would she know I was thinking THAT??

Each story scrap" Read more of this review »
We're Not Rich by Sue Murtagh
"Exceptional read! This is, a deftly crafted, series of interwoven stories, and characters. As in real life, lives ebb, flow, and sometimes snag. Read them in order! You will be rewarded."
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