Upcoming Appearances in 2026
January 23: Beaverdale Books, Des Moines, IA
January 27: Pegasus Books, Berkeley, CA
January 29: City Lights, San Francisco, CA
January 30: Copperfield’s Books, Petaluma, CA
February 3: Sausalito Books, Sausalito, CA
February 5: Poetry in Davis, Davis, CA
February 8: Golden Era Lounge, Nevada City, CA
February 15: San Francisco Writers Conference
February 19: Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA
February 20: Writer’s Block, Las Vegas, NV
February 22: Stranger than Fiction, Specs, San Francisco
February 26: San Francisco Public Library
March 2: Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
March 4-7: AWP, Baltimore, MD
March 27-28: Erma Bombeck Writers Conference, Dayton, Ohio
April 6-17: Spir Creative Retreat, Turino, Italy
May 2: Des Moines Book Festival, Des Moines, IA
May 30-31: Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, CA
September 27-30: Okoboji Writers Conference, Okoboji, IA
October TBD: Litquake, San Francisco, CA
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
Berkeley Library Foundation’s Annual Authors Dinner
February 8, 2020
Sierra Writers Conference
February 1, 2020
Lit Crawl: Flash Fiction Collective
Oct. 19, 2019
Literary Death Match
October 15, 2019
Flash Fiction Collective
January 10, 2019
Today at Apple
November 17, 2018
CreativeLive: NaNo Prep Week
Week of October 22, 2018
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- With Rachael Herron and Sophie LIttlefield
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- With Jennie Nash
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- With Aya de Leon
Litquake 2018: Celebrating Nothing Short of 100
October 20, 2018
Launch Party: New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
September 6, 2018
BookCon: The Art of Writing with Abandon
June 2, 2018
Launch Party: Nothing Short of 100
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- 100 Word Story Editors
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- Laughs to Paul Strohm’s “Naked”
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- The Flash Fiction Collective Team
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- Talking very deeply about flash fiction
Bay Area Book Festival
April 28, 2018
Bookshop Santa Cruz
March 8, 2018
Live Podcast with Scriptnotes host John August
February 5, 2018
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
CreativeLive: Develop a Creative Mindset and Write!
January 15, 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
Write on Mammas’ Salon
Napa, CA, September 23, 2017
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
2016 Writers Digest Novel Writing Conference
Litquake: The Art of the Novel
In Conversation with J.T. LeRoy (aka Laura Albert)
Flash Fiction Collective Reading Series
September 1, 2016)
2016 Mendocino Writers Conference
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)
Talking writing with Jodi Angel, Tom Barbash, and Siamak Vossoughi
Litcrawl: Press 53 Reading by Bay Area Authors (October 17, 2015)
First time reading in a beauty parlor. Glama-Rama in the Mission.
Porchlight: A Storytelling Series (August 21, 2015)
A story about doing the hustle (or serving room service to David Bowie)
2015 Bay Area Book Festival, with Rachael Herron and Chris Baty
2015 Oakland Book Festival, with Jenny Offill and Adam Johnson
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
