Sterling Watson

Sterling Watson
OccupationsWriter and screenwriter
Professor
Writing career
SubjectFiction

Sterling Watson, M.A., is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and was the former director of the Writing Workshop at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Early life and education

Watson received his Master of Arts from the University of Florida. He served as the former director of the Writing Workshop for Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Career

Watson's first three novels are Weep No More My Brother, The Calling, and Blind Tongues. Deadly Sweet is the first in his Eddie Priest series of novels. He's a co-author with Dennis Lehane of the screenplay Bad Blood. His main professional interests are fiction, playwriting, screenwriting, American, British and European short and long fiction, and the theater. He was for five years the fiction editor of The Florida Quarterly and taught secondary English and later fiction writing at Raiford Prison. He has won four Florida Arts Council Grants for fiction writing.

In January 2007, Watson participated in Eckerd College's third annual Writers in Paradise writing program which he co-created and co-directs with Lehane.

In January 2023, he released the book Night Letter.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Watson, Sterling | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2026-08-14.
  2. ↑ "Sterling Watson – Writers In Paradise". Retrieved 2026-08-14.
  3. ↑ Fransen '24, Ashlyn (2024-01-31). "Eckerd College celebrates 20th year of esteemed writing conference". News | Eckerd College. Retrieved 2026-08-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Sterling Watson's 'Night Letter' delivers a dark, tense tale". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2023-01-31.