Bret Anthony Johnston
Johnston at the 2023 Texas Book Festival.
Johnston at the 2023 Texas Book Festival.
OccupationShort story writer, novelist, essayist, college lecturer
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction
Notable worksCorpus Christi: Stories;

Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer;

Waiting for Lightning
Notable awards5 Under 35 Honoree
Website
www.bretanthonyjohnston.com

Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author. 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 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.

Johnston is the author of the novels Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi: Stories.

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

Awards and honors

Works

  • Corpus Christi: Stories (2004)
  • Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (editor) (2008)
  • Waiting for Lightning (screenwriter) (2012)
  • Remember Me Like This (2014)

References

  1. ↑ 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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