Podcast Episode · Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers. · May 28 · 26m

The art of "deliberate paradoxes"

Reviewed by K.C. Mead-Brewer Gail Butensky and Grant Faulkner’s photography-flash fiction hybrid something out there in the distance [University of New Mexico Press, 2026] celebrates the wonderful-str...

Grant Faulkner speaks with Valerie Fox about Something Out There In the Distance, his new collaborative book with photographer Gail Butensky.

Plus, in other new Berkeley books: Michael Pollan on consciousness — and a deeply researched novel about two famed women pirates of history.

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...

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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Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.

Get away to find yourself. And your story.

UNDERSTORY is a new writers’ conference located in beautiful Park City, Utah, conceived to explore the art of storytelling.

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...

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…

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…

Dear Readers,

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 …

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…

On O‘ahu's North Shore. All writers and artists welcome.

A gift of getting older: art driven by defiance, by revelation, by truth

"I like that I can make grand pronouncements about aging and the human condition with increasing street cred."

"I like that I can make grand pronouncements about aging and the human condition with increasing street cred."

Grant Faulkner is a creative leader, prolific author, and the former Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

Turning to ritual as a way to create after tragedy

Capital Books in Sacramento, CA, welcomes local author Grant Faulkner in their Flamingo Lounge  to discuss his book, “The Art of Brevity.”