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

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! newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...

Mychal Threets will host Reading Rainbow! www.instagram.com/p/DPMFGvKE2sl/

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

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... #fiction #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcommunity #writingclasses #theartofbrevity

📚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

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. @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social‬ (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. #WritingCommunity

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! grantfaulkner.substack.com/p/writing-re...

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

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! www.past-ten.com/single-post/...

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:

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.

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. grantfaulkner.substack.com/p/silence-as...

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

It was great to chat with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and @brookewarner.bsky.social on the "Write Minded" podcast... lithub.com/sari-botton-...

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.

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.

"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. grantfaulkner.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

Next Saturday, I'm going to give the keynote at Wordcrafters' "Be Writing Festival" in Eugene, Oregon. I'm also going to teach a class on "The Art of Brevity." If you're in the neighborhood, it looks like a lot of fun, so sign up! wordcrafters.org/be-writing-f...

“Sometimes I think getting older is a study in gentleness. Gentle thought, gentle exercise, gentle love. When I was younger I was more interested in winning arguments, proving myself. Now, I don’t think arguments can really be won.” - @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-60...

I'm now an official oldster—but then everyone is an oldster in the view of Oldster Magazine ... because we're all getting older. It was fun taking @saribotton.bsky.social's Oldster interview to reflect on the mysteries, quirks, beauties, and pains of aging. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-60...

I was recently interviewed on a podcast, My Rejection Story, where I talked about my rejection story—and how writers need to develop a “rejection mindset” because to be a writer is to be rejected. I dedicated this week's Substack to providing some rejection tips: hustlingwriters.com/grant-faulkn...

I wanted to share this cute cartoon of a recent podcast interview I gave on the subject of rejection. Loved doing the interview because I got to talk about my book on rejection--which was rejected! Here's the link to the interview: hustlingwriters.com/grant-faulkn...

“A novel is a prose narrative of a certain length with something wrong with it.” ~Randall Jarrell

We're going to have to steel ourselves to write through some tough times in the years ahead. Isa Catto provides a ritual that has helped her create during one of the worst kinds of tragedies. grantfaulkner.substack.com/p/writing-wi...

Tomorrow!

Capital Books in Sacramento, CA, welcomes local author @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social this Saturday, January 25, to chat with his friend, author Heather Bourbeau, about “The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story.” 💙📚 www.unmpress.com/events/grant...

Wish I could be there! Sacramento folks, don't miss this great opportunity to learn from the best!

Join me for one of my favorite things this Saturday: talking with my good friend Heather Bourbeau about The Art of Brevity at Capital Books in Sacramento: store.capitalbooksonk.com/events

Fun and very productive novel brainstorming session with the great @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social this afternoon! I had exciting breakthroughs today. Things are coming together,I left the session energized and excited. If you’re looking for a coach for an important writing project Grant is your guy! ❤️

A stellar upcoming lineup for Symposium ... @storyandplot.bsky.social, @thrillerchick.bsky.social, @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social & Merridith Allen Concepts, Q&As, getting a novel written, loglines & more... Join us for an amazing month of knowledge! https://buff.ly/4bXlTZa #ScriptSky #BookSky

I was so inspired by the way Forrest Gander excavated his loss in Mojave Ghost, a poetry collection that he calls a “novel-poem.” Loss is ever present. Absence forms us. We hold conversations with the dead. A good companion doesn’t have to be alive or with us. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Love this thoughtful review of ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE! @blacklawrence.bsky.social

My latest read, All the Comfort Sin can Provide by @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social #booksky #bookish #read #book #books #readmore #currentlyreading #amreading #reading #readingcommunity #nooknerd #booklover #shortstories #fiction #booksbooksbooks #latest #authorlife #bookrecommendations #bookreview

I discovered the most inspiring theater in the dusty cracks of Death Valley. And I learned important creative lessons from the dancer, Marta Becket, who danced like a dust devil. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I loved Forrest Gander's "novel poem," MOJAVE GHOST, for many reasons: the textures of its searching, the way memories guide the rhythms of his strides on and off the page. So many insights about love and loss and the journey of being a writer—and a human. podcast.shewrites.com/the-poem-as-...

Some thoughts on aging and creativity—and whether to create with a sense of urgency (given Death’s knocking at the door) or to … practice the art of rusting, which is what I’m doing. grantfaulkner.substack.com/p/this-is-60...

1/3 🎉 Happy New Year w a new Lit’erally episode: In Pt2 of my conversation w @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social we examine how his mentorship for other writers has taken book form, with his Pep Talks for Writers @chroniclebooks.bsky.social, in which he seeks to help writers develop a creative mindset.

I'm wondering what the world would be like if poetry had its own Hollywood.

“Are you doing anything now,” a friend of my parents once asked me, “or are you still just writing?” Still writing ...

“A poem should not be flawless but should be able to bear the burden of its flaws … “ – Chelsey Minnis

The new love of my life: “Somebody Somewhere.” I love the bigness of this small show that focuses on life in a small town. I also love it because it’s a show created with love. I can't get enough of the friendship of Sam (Bridgett Everett) and Joel (Jeff Hiller). open.substack.com/pub/grantfau...

NBCC member @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social interviewed Faith Adiele on the Write-minded podcast about her two chapbooks that are in conversation with one another, "Her Voice" and "Voice Over":