Carrie R. Moore in conversation with Bret Anthony Johnston
Sat, Jul 12
|Austin
A debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn’t love you back?
Time & Location
Jul 12, 2025, 4:00 PM
Austin, 7112 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78757, USA
Guests
About the event
Artfully and precisely drawn, and steeped in place and history as it explores themes of belonging, inheritance, and deep intimacy, Carrie R. Moore’s debut collection announces an extraordinary new talent in American fiction, inviting us all to examine how the past shapes our present—and how our present choices will echo for years to come.
ABOUT CARRIE R. MOORE
Carrie R. Moore’s fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, For Harriet, The Southern Review, and other publications. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Community of Writers, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. She earned her MFA in Fiction at the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature and served as the Fiction Editor of Bat City Review. In 2023, she was the inaugural Writer-In-Residence at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat in…