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Grant Faulkner
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Co-founder of 100 Word Story, Write-minded podcaster, Executive Producer of America's Next Great Author, Co-founder of Memoir Nation, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher.

And, oh yeah, writer.
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Check out my interview in CRAFT with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social, who's judging our Flash Prose Prize. www.craftliterary.com/2025/10/01/i...
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...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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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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.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Mychal Threets will host Reading Rainbow!

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readingrainbow on Instagram: "🎶 Take a look, it’s in a book 🎶After nearly 20 years… Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to becom…"
🎶 Take a look, it’s in a book 🎶After nearly 20 years… Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course… new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈✨#FollowTheRainbowView all 2,392 comments
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September 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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“Grief is wearing a dead person’s dress forever.” from “Notes from One Still Living,” 💔 @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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.”
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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.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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✍️ 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...

#fiction #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcommunity #writingclasses #theartofbrevity
August 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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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...

#writing
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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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.)
July 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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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May 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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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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Writing retreats and you
Get away to find yourself. And your story.
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April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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!

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UNDERSTORY
UNDERSTORY is a new writers’ conference located in beautiful Park City, Utah, conceived to explore the art of storytelling.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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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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...
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April 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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:
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…
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April 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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NBCC member @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social interviewed @lidiamiles.bsky.social on the Write-minded podcast about her new book, "Reading the Waves":
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…
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April 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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.
April 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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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Silence as a way to hear yourself
Dear Readers,
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March 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I just made a complete mess of my revision. That's a good thing, by the way.
March 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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It was great to chat with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and @brookewarner.bsky.social on the "Write Minded" podcast...

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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 …
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March 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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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.

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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…
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March 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Nothing more needs to be said, except let’s make this an everyday thing.
February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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
O‘ahu Writers Retreat at Mokulē‘ia
On O‘ahu's North Shore. All writers and artists welcome.
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February 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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!

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February 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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.
February 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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"As mortality creeps closer, truths roil within, and they’re mutinous, without fealty to any past decorum."

I wrote about making art and aging, and how one benefit of aging is caring less about others’ judgments and more about creating authentically.

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The Art of Aging: No More F*&ks to Give
A gift of getting older: art driven by defiance, by revelation, by truth
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February 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM