Cozy Fest: M.V. Feehan + In the Shadow of Crows

Using the lines from the children’s poem “Counting Crows” as story titles, M.V. Feehan’s debut collection In the Shadow of Crows (Baraka Books) follows the inhabitants of a small Maritime town, their stories dipping and weaving like crows on the wing. M.V. reads from the title story for Cozy Fest below.

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M.V. Feehan reads from In the Shadow of Crows
(Baraka Books)

About our reader

A close-up photo of writer M.V. Feehan. She is a light skin-toned woman with light-coloured hair, wearing a slouchy dark hat and beaming out at the camera.

Born in Nova Scotia, M.V.Feehan has lived, studied and worked in many cities and towns throughout Canada, America and Ireland. She spent years as a reader and editor for the Vancouver literary journal—Room—and was a member and reader for the Providence Writer’s Circle Annual Publication. Her work has appeared in Canadian, American, and European journals and in the anthology, Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop. In past years she has won the Budge Wilson Short Story Award and the Fiction Award from the Elizabeth Bishop Society. She has also been shortlisted for the Rita Joe Poetry Prize. M.V completed her MPhill in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin in May of 2021. She was awarded a place in the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program to finish her collection, In The Shadow of Crows, published by Baraka Books. M.V. currently resides on Unama’Ki / Cape Breton Island with her husband and son.

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Thanks to M.V. for reading from her book for All Lit Up’s third-annual Cozy Fest! You can learn more about In the Shadow of Crows, and order from ALU or your fave local bookstore (via the Shop Local button), right here.

For more to come, or to catch up on Cozy Fest, click here.