The Montgomery County Literary Arts Council Writers in Performance and Lone Star College Montgomery will host Bret Anthony Johnston in March.
The event is at 7 p.m. at Lone Star College Montgomery, Room G-102, March 20.
Johnston is the internationally bestselling author of the novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me Like This, and the multi-award-winning collection Corpus Christi: Stories. He also edited Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and wrote the documentary film Waiting for Lightning, which was released in theaters around the world by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Among his many honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Glasgow Prize, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award, “the world’s richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story.” His work has been widely translated and appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. After selling his television to buy his first board almost 40 years ago, Bret has yet to outgrow skateboarding.
After directing the creative writing program at Harvard University for over a decade, he is now the Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. “Fascinating characters and an engaging, authentic style give We Burn Daylight a fine shot at the Great American Novel sweepstakes. Few people can bring Texas to life on the page like Brett Anthony Johnston.” –Gary Shteyngart.
The event is made possible through the support and cooperation of Lone Star College SWIRL Arts & Literature Journal, Greater Conroe Arts Alliance, City of Conroe Arts & Culture, and the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council. For more information, call Dave Parsons at 936-524-6537 or Clifford.w.hudder@lonestar.edu.
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