Grant Faulkner

huge thanks to the editors and @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social for selecting this story, and to the @smokelong.bsky.social summer for helping me get this piece started ♥️

Interview: Grant Faulkner - CRAFT Grant Faulkner, who will serve as our guest judge for the CRAFT 2025 Flash Prose Prize, recently told me that he dislikes conventional bios and prefers to find something odd on the internet about writ...

Check out my interview in CRAFT with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social, who's judging our Flash Prose Prize. www.craftliterary.com/2025/10/01/i...

Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize | New Flash Fiction Review Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.

Thanks to all the writers who entered our 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize. We have enjoyed reading your work and are assembling a longlist to send to our judge for this competition, @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social. Best of luck!

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Mychal Threets will host Reading Rainbow!

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“Grief is wearing a dead person’s dress forever.” from “Notes from One Still Living,” 💔 @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social

Thanks so much, Kelli!

Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize | New Flash Fiction Review Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.

Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize!

Max 500 words
Fee $10
Closes 15 Oct
Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social

"The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.”
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

✍️ Grab a spot in The Art of Brevity Workshop with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social!

🗓️ August 30th on Zoom at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific

Register: catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for...

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📚Checkout our Virtual Summer Writing Workshops!📚

@gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social: The Art of Brevity
🗓️ 8/30 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific

Richard King: Literarture of the Sea
🗓️ 8/9, 8/16, 8/23 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific

🔗 Link to register: catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for...

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Thanks so much! This is so nice to hear.

Shout out to the newly rebranded Memoir Nation podcast, which I've really come to savor over these past couple of years. Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner have begun to feel like old friends.

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(Haven't found Brooke or the podcast's account on Bluesky.)

Upcoming Webinar: The Art of Brevity with Grant Faulkner

In this workshop, @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social, will discuss how a different type of creativity emerges within a hard compositional limit.

Become a Writing Master Academy member to attend. Link in bio.

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Writing retreats and you Get away to find yourself. And your story.

How do you go on a writing retreat—or create one for yourself?

Oh, there are many considerations. But one thing is for sure: a retreat will do your writing—and yourself—good.

Plus ... details of a retreat I'm hosting in a castle in Italy!

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UNDERSTORY UNDERSTORY is a new writers’ conference located in beautiful Park City, Utah, conceived to explore the art of storytelling.

I'm looking forward to teaching at Understory in Park City, Utah, this July. Dani Shapiro is the keynote, and there are so many other great writers coming (including good friends Brooke Warner, Jeannine Ouellette, and Josh Mohr), great workshops, great scenery, and more!

www.understoryparkcity.com

June 27th, 2014 - Patricia Quintana Bidar June 27, 2014 was the benefit gala at the Oakland Zoo, with that gorgeous 70-something blues singer in red kimono and black jeans and heels, silver dreads pulled back. Catering was by that Spanish pla...

One of the highlights of AWP: hearing @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social read from her new book of essays, and friends @jacqdoyle.bsky.social and @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social read from Past Ten's anthology. Today, I returned to my own Past Ten essay -- feeling proud!
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You’re Going to Have Feelings About Publishing, featuring Kate McKean Write-minded delves into publishing again in this week’s show, specifically focused on traditional publishing and the feelings that are part of the journey. Brooke and Grant connect with literary K…

On the Write-minded podcast, NBCC member @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social interviewed agent @katemckean.bsky.social about her new book, "Write Through It," which is a roadmap to everything you want to know about how to stay the course on your publishing journey:

Shapeshifting, featuring Lidia Yuknavitch This week we invite one of our favorite authors, Lidia Yuknavitch, back to Write-minded to discuss her new book, Reading the Waves, as well as how we can re-envision and reimagine our past experien…

NBCC member @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social interviewed @lidiamiles.bsky.social on the Write-minded podcast about her new book, "Reading the Waves":

Every writer should listen to this. And every writer should subscribe to Kate's Substack to learn the ins and outs and the all-arounds of publishing, agenting, and writing.

It was such a treat to talk with you, Kate! And I learned so much, as I always do.

Silence as a way to hear yourself Dear Readers,

Most of us tend to fill our lives with activities, goals, to-do lists, doomscrolling, whatever it might be—and we so rarely seek or trust the empty or silent moments of our lives.

The irony of emptiness, of silence? It teems with surprising activity.

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I just made a complete mess of my revision. That's a good thing, by the way.

Ah, thanks so much! I really appreciate your words. #creativefuel

Sari Botton on Hard-Won Wisdom Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is currently in its fourth year. We are a weekly podcast for writers craving a unique blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the …

It was great to chat with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and @brookewarner.bsky.social on the "Write Minded" podcast...

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The Suburban Novel, featuring Tom Perrotta There’s a caveat out the gate here, which is that in this week’s interview, Tom Perrotta stipulates that he writes about people and communities and the dramas that unfold—in places that just happen…

I was introduced to Tom Perrotta through the movies made about his novels—ELECTION and LITTLE CHILDREN. He was full of insight about writing stories that take place in the suburbs and how his iconic character Tracy Flick changes with the #MeToo era.

podcast.shewrites.com/the-suburban...

Nothing more needs to be said, except let’s make this an everyday thing.

Thanks, Susan! The fandom is mutual!

O‘ahu Writers Retreat at Mokulē‘ia On O‘ahu's North Shore. All writers and artists welcome.

Are you a fan (like me) of @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social ?? You can study flash fiction & nonfiction with him in O’ahu!! Spots still open: oahuwritersretreat.com

If you're in Portland, Oregon, this Wednesday, I'm talking with @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social about THE ART OF BREVITY—and writing in general!

Come on by Broadway Books!

www.broadwaybooks.net/event/2025-0...

Had such an inspiring time talking writing in ever-charming Jacksonville, Oregon, with one of my favorite "in conversation" partners, Larry Rosen, at Anchor Valley Wine.

A big, special thanks to Rebel Heart Books, who generously sold my books. It's the sweetest, coziest bookstore in the world.