Q: I watched Brad Watson's interview with President Obama tonight. I realize since it was 7 minutes, the piece was edited. I cannot imagine the President of the U.S. telling a reporter how to ...

The University of Wyoming will host an event titled “There is Happiness: Celebrating the Life of Brad Watson” Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. in Room 506 of Coe Library. The event, which honors late UW ...

It is impossible to think about Brad Watson’s untimely death in 2020, two weeks before his 65th birthday and on the verge of retirement, without sadness. He was a good friend and the best fiction ...

Brad Watson, the best fiction writer to come out of the University of Alabama creative writing program, died July 8, 2020, at the age of 64, after publishing two volumes of stories and two brilliant ...

There is something enchanting about being immersed in Brad Watson’s stories, and it isn’t just the compelling use of magical realism he uses to soften life’s melancholy. After the Mississippi native’s ...

Brad Watson, who in 2020 died of cardiac failure at the age of 64, was beloved not merely as a writer’s writer but as a writer’s mentor and writer’s friend. As an instructor at a series of ...