Fiction
Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr is from Texas and lives with his family in Indiana. His books include Opioid, Indiana, Bad Foundations, and Sip, along with several novellas and story collections. He is the winner of a Wonderland Book Award and a Texas Observer Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Granta, Ninth Letter, Hobart, Boulevard, and other publications.
2026 Fiction Shortlist: Bad Foundations
Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart.
2020 Fiction Shortlist: Opioid, Indiana
Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle’s girlfriend after the death of his parents. Now his uncle is missing, probably on a drug binge. It’s Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who’s been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals—encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening.
