Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of 100 Word Story, co-host of the Write-minded podcast, and an Executive Producer of the upcoming TV show, America’s Next Great Author

He recently published The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story. He's also published Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories; All the Comfort Sin Can Provide; Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story; and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo

His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin HouseThe Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York TimesPoets & WritersLiterary HubWriter’s Digest, and The Writer

Find Grant online on FacebookTwitter, and Instagram. Listen to his podcast Write-minded and subscribe to his newsletter Intimations: A Writer's Discourse.

Five Things I've Learned About

Writing With Vulnerability

View the archive of this two-hour class from writer, podcaster, and producer Grant Faulkner, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about what happens when writers share the most difficult parts of their story in service of truths that would otherwise go untold.

Grant Faulkner

Five Things I've Learned About

Writing With Vulnerability

View the archive of this two-hour class from writer, podcaster, and producer Grant Faulkner, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about what happens when writers share the most difficult parts of their story in service of truths that would otherwise go untold.

Five Things I've Learned About

The Art of Brevity

View the archive of this two-hour class from writer and Executive Director of National Writing Month Grant Faulkner, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about what happens when you apply the principles and aesthetic of brevity to all your creative writing.

Grant Faulkner

Five Things I've Learned About

The Art of Brevity

View the archive of this two-hour class from writer and Executive Director of National Writing Month Grant Faulkner, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about what happens when you apply the principles and aesthetic of brevity to all your creative writing.

Five Things I've Learned About

What It Takes to Finish a Book

View the archive of this 90-minute class from Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the essential mindsets that will help you get your book finished.

Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner

Five Things I've Learned About

What It Takes to Finish a Book

View the archive of this 90-minute class from Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the essential mindsets that will help you get your book finished.

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