Mary Murray Bartolomé

Mary Murray Bartolomé (née Murray Brown) is a writer, adventurer, and teacher. ​She was raised in Edinburgh, graduated from Oxford University, and now lives in a small town near Barcelona with her husband and border collie. She teaches English literature and debating in an international high school. 

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Mary writes fiction in the novel and short story form, as well as some narrative non-fiction and memoir inspired by nature and adventuring. ​This blog is a random assortment of musings on life's adventures, without any particular objective other than escapism and intellectual entertainment.​​

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In 2024 Mary won the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize.

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Other recently published pieces include:

- How To Make Love To Fire published in Panorama, The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Autumn 2024.

- Relations published in The Phare, Winter 2024

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Mary has also been shortlisted in the Bath Short Story Award, the Bridport Prize, the London Library Scholarship, the Aurora Writing Prize and the Chipping Norton Short Story Award. Recently, Mary won a place on the New Writing North Academy, completing a short story course with writer Susmita Bhattacharya.

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​ Her debut novel was longlisted in the international Bath Novel Award and other pitch prizes. In 2020 she completed the Faber Academy Writing A Novel course, and is now at work on her second novel, whilst seeking representation for the first. ​

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Sometimes she tweets here https://x.com/MaryMurrayBrown