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Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner
is the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the cofounder of 100 Word Story. He has published two books on writing, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo and Brave the Page: A Young Writer’s Guide to Telling Epic Stories. His essays on creativity have been published in the New York Times, Poets & Writers, LitHub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. He’s also cohost of the podcast Write-minded.


Grant Faulkner on Capturing the Essence of a Short Story

“It’s the writer’s job to capture essences in words.”
March 31, 2023  By Grant Faulkner
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Life By the Bay: A Moveable Feast That Moved When I Wasn’t Looking

Grant Faulkner on the Pressures of Living in San Francisco
May 27, 2021  By Grant Faulkner
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13 Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction

Grant Faulkner on the Infinite Possibilities of Brevity
August 21, 2020  By Grant Faulkner
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