Bret Anthony Johnston

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Bret Anthony Johnston
Bret Anthony Johnston 2023 Texas Book Festival.jpg
Johnston at the 2023 Texas Book Festival.
Occupation Short story writer, novelist, essayist, college lecturer
Nationality American
Genre Fiction
Notable worksCorpus Christi: Stories;

Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer;

Contents

Waiting for Lightning
Notable awards5 Under 35 Honoree
Website
www.bret-anthony-johnston.com

Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author, novelist and essayist. He wrote the novel Remember Me Like This and the story collection, Corpus Christi: Stories. He is also the editor of the non-fiction work, Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He won the 2017 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

Career

Johnston is a graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire , The Paris Review , Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American , Tin House , The New York Times Magazine , The New York Times , Slate.com , All Things Considered, and in short story anthologies. Johnston teaches fiction writing at Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin. [1]

Johnston is the author of the novels We Burn Daylight, Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi: Stories. [2]

In 2012, Waiting for Lightning premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films. [3]

Awards and honors

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Contact – Michener Center for Writers".
  2. ↑ "Books".
  3. ↑ "B-Sides".
  4. ↑ Benedicte Page (27 April 2017). "Bret Anthony Johnston wins Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
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