Grant Faulkner

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    • The Art of Brevity
    • All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
    • Fissures
    • Pep Talks for Writers
    • Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
    • The Names of All Things
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Appearances

  • Feb. 16: Book Launch: Pegasus Books Downtown (in conversation with Lynn Mundell, co-founder of 100 Word Story)
  • Feb. 17: San Francisco Writers Conference
  • Feb. 21: Green Apple on 9th (in conversation with Melanie Abrams)
  • Feb. 26: Lit Camp Workshop
  • March 8-11: Associated Writing Programs Conference
  • March 22-26: Storyfort
  • April 20: Kepler’s Books
  • April 30: Five Things I’ve Learned About the Art of Brevity
  • May 6-7: Bay Area Book Festival

Select Past Appearances

An Ode to Memory and Place: Readings by Brian Alan Ellis, Grant Faulkner, and Erin Calabria

Micro podcast, May 17, 2022

Micro is a podcast for short but powerful writing. Each episode features a few short pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and/or poetry read by the author.

Grant Faulkner short story collection asks how much comfort sin can provide?

KALW, October 26, 2021

Berkeley author Grant Faulkner reads from his new short story collection, All The Comfort Sin Can Provide.The 100-word story “Morphine Drip” is one of his favorites and includes the genesis of the title for the collection.

Litquake 2021: Distilling Emotion: The Art of the Short Story

Preparing for NaNoWriMo: A Q&A With the Executive Director, Grant Faulkner

Indiana Writers Center: A Conversation about NaNoPrep with Barbara Shoup

October 25, 2021

Ali Benjamin in Conversation with Grant Faulkner

March 16, 2021

The Racket & The San Franciscan : A San Franciscan Racket

December 10, 2020

The MarshStream: Discussing NaNoWriMo—and Writing NaNoWriMo-style

November 20, 2020

Great Courses: So You Finished Your Novel, Now What?

November 12, 2020

Writers Blok: Blocking Writers’ Block

November 4, 2020

Craft Talk with Walter Mosley

October 31, 2020

Craft Talk with YA Authors: Echo Brown, Katy Rose Poole, Kristina Forest, and Margaret Owen

October 30, 2020

Kobo Live Q&A

October 22, 2020

Preparing for NaNoWriMo

October 22, 2020

Prepping For NaNoWRiMo

October 19, 2020

Bookshop.org Presents: Aya de Leon and Grant Faulkner Discuss National Novel Writing Month

October 8, 2020

Q&A with Jessica Brody

October 2, 2020

Unlock the Key to Your Novel: Goodreads and Netflix Enola Holmes Promotional Event

September 23, 2020

Jack Thorne: Enola Holmes Interview

September 23, 2020

Nancy Springer: Enola Holmes Interview

September 23, 2020

Bay Area Book Festival’s #Unbound Virtual Series

June 30, 2020

Flash Fiction Z Reading #2 – Sarah Freiigh, Grant Faulkner, Scott Garson, Nancy Freund

June 6, 2020

Litquake on Lockdown: Flash Fiction Collective Reading

April 6, 2020

Photo of Litquake Lockdown

Berkeley Library Foundation’s Annual Authors Dinner

February 8, 2020

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Sierra Writers Conference

February 1, 2020

Grant Faulkner Sierra Writers Conference

Lit Crawl: Flash Fiction Collective

Oct. 19, 2019

 

Literary Death Match

October 15, 2019

Flash Fiction Collective

January 10, 2019

Grant Faulkner - Flash Fiction Collective

Today at Apple

November 17, 2018
Today at Apple Grant Faulkner

CreativeLive: NaNo Prep Week

Week of October 22, 2018

With Rachael Herron and Sophie LIttlefield
With Jennie Nash
With Aya de Leon

Litquake 2018: Celebrating Nothing Short of 100

October 20, 2018
Litquake 2018 Grant Faulkner

Launch Party: New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction

September 6, 2018
Grant Faulkner New Micro: Exceptionally Short Stories

BookCon: The Art of Writing with Abandon

June 2, 2018
BookCon 2018: Grant Faulkner, Susan Dennard, Marissa Meyer, Kami Garcia, Danielle Paige

Launch Party: Nothing Short of 100

100 Word Story Editors
Laughs to Paul Strohm’s “Naked”

Nothing Short of 100 Launch Party
The Flash Fiction Collective Team
Talking very deeply about flash fiction

Bay Area Book Festival

April 28, 2018
Grant Faulkner - Brooke Warner - Bay Area Book Festival 2018

Bookshop Santa Cruz

March 8, 2018
Grant Faulkner - Lise Quintana - Bookshop Santa Cruz

Live Podcast with Scriptnotes host John August

February 5, 2018
John August and Grant Faulkner at the Booksmith

Kepler’s Literary Foundation Master Class: Grant Faulkner with Jan Ellison

February 1, 2018

Copperfield’s Books: In Conversation with Ellen Sussman

January 28, 2018

Grant Faulkner Copperfields

CreativeLive: Develop a Creative Mindset and Write!

January 15, 2018

Grant Faulkner CreativeLive 2018

NaNoLitMo

October 25, 2017

Author Talks at Google

October 17, 2017

Left Margin Lit Anniversary Party

Berkeley, CA, October 10, 2017

Litquake: The Art of the Novel

San Francisco, CA, October 7, 2017

Book Passage: Marin Launch Party for Pep Talks for Writers

Sausalito, CA, October 5, 2017

Indiana Writers Center

Indianapolis, IN, September 28, 2017

Grant Faulkner reads at the Indianapolis Writers Center

Write on Mammas’ Salon

Napa, CA, September 23, 2017

Grant Faulkner speaking at Write on Mammas

Celebration of Best Small Fictions 2016

Left to right: Dan Moreau, me, Janey Skinner, R.O. Kwon, Britt Haraway, and Kirstin Chen

Poets & Writers Live

San Francisco, January 15, 2017

Why There Are Words

December 8, 2016

2016 Chicago Humanities Festival

Chicago Humanities Festival - Grant Faulkner and Ian Belknap

2016 Writers Digest Novel Writing Conference

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Litquake: The Art of the Novel

Grant Faulkner Art of the Novel Litquake

In Conversation with J.T. LeRoy (aka Laura Albert)

Grant Faulkner and JT LeRoy and Laura Albert at the Booksmith

Flash Fiction Collective Reading Series

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2016 Mendocino Writers Conference

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Grant Faulkner Mendocino Writers Conference Opening Night

AWP 2016: Forming Resilient Partnerships: How Literary Nonprofits, Schools, and Individuals Can Collaborate Effectively

Listen to the session with Joel Arquillos, Benjamin De Leon, Grant Faulkner, and Gerald Richards.

Join 826 National, 826LA, and National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) as they discuss different strategies on forming partnerships between schools, literary nonprofits, volunteers, and teachers on both a local, national, and global scale, and how these partnerships enable creative solutions for both educators and students. What are the challenges of maintaining these partnerships, and what is their impact on the diverse population of under-resourced students they aim to empower through writing?

Litquake: The Art of the Short Story (October 17, 2015)

Grant Faulkner Litquake 2015

Talking writing with Jodi Angel, Tom Barbash, and Siamak Vossoughi

Litcrawl: Press 53 Reading by Bay Area Authors (October 17, 2015)

Grant Faulkner Litcrawl 2015

First time reading in a beauty parlor. Glama-Rama in the Mission.

Porchlight: A Storytelling Series (August 21, 2015)

Grant Faulkner tells a story about serving room service to David Bowie

A story about doing the hustle (or serving room service to David Bowie)

2015 Bay Area Book Festival, with Rachael Herron and Chris Baty

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2015 Oakland Book Festival, with Jenny Offill and Adam Johnson

Oakland Book Fest

Reading from Fissures: Why There Are Words

Reading at U.C. Davis Poetry Night

Real-time storytelling with Edan Lepucki, Tope Folarin, and Mike Curato

2014 Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Hesse, Deutschland, Germany. Story Drive, Grant Faulkner. Frankfurter Buchmesse 2014. Finnland. Cool. - Finland ist der Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2014. Cool. - Finland is the Guest of Honour 2014 at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Hesse, Deutschland, Germany. Story Drive, Grant Faulkner. Frankfurter Buchmesse 2014. Finnland. Cool. - Finland ist der Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2014. Cool. - Finland is the Guest of Honour 2014 at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month, co-founder of 100 Word Story, writer, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher. Read More…

The Art of Brevity

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All the Comfort Sin Can Provide

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Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo

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Fissures

Grant Faulkner Fissures

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Nothing Short of 100

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The Names of All Things

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