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[[File:Grant_faulkner.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Grant Faulkner as shown on the NaNoWriMo website.]]
[[File:Grant_faulkner.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Grant Faulkner as shown on the NaNoWriMo website.]]
'''Grant Faulkner''' is the current executive director of National Novel Writing Month, taking over for [[Chris Baty]]. Grant took over the post on January 9, 2012. <ref>http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/16535099276</ref>. He has participated in NaNoWriMo since 2010.
'''Grant Faulkner''' is the current executive director of National Novel Writing Month, taking over for [[Chris Baty]].  
 
Before joining the [[NaNoWriMo]] staff, he served as a [[Board of Directors]] member in 2011 and managed online communications at the National Writing Project, another Bay Area writing non-profit.
 
Outside of NaNoWriMo, Grant is also the founder and editor of 100 Word Story, a literary journal featuring short stories and flash fiction. <ref>http://www.100wordstory.org</ref> He also wrote ''Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Prompts to Boost Your Creative Mojo'', published October 2017.
 
He plans to master tap dancing one day and invited [[Night of Writing Dangerously]] attendees to dance with him on stage during the 2014 event.


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
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In 2018, Faulkner launched the podcast "Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers" with co-host Brooke Warner of SheWrites.com.
In 2018, Faulkner launched the podcast "Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers" with co-host Brooke Warner of SheWrites.com.
== Career ==
Grant took over the post on January 9, 2012. <ref>http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/16535099276</ref>. He has participated in NaNoWriMo since 2010.
Before joining the [[NaNoWriMo]] staff, he served as a [[Board of Directors]] member in 2011 and managed online communications at the National Writing Project, another Bay Area writing non-profit.
Outside of NaNoWriMo, Grant is also the founder and editor of 100 Word Story, a literary journal featuring short stories and flash fiction. <ref>http://www.100wordstory.org</ref> He also wrote ''Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Prompts to Boost Your Creative Mojo'', published October 2017.
He plans to master tap dancing one day and invited [[Night of Writing Dangerously]] attendees to dance with him on stage during the 2014 event.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 22:02, 9 June 2020

Grant Faulkner as shown on the NaNoWriMo website.

Grant Faulkner is the current executive director of National Novel Writing Month, taking over for Chris Baty.

Personal life

Grant Faulkner was born and raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He earned a B.A. in English from Grinnell College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. [1] He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the writer Heather Mackey, and their two children. [2]

In 2011, Faulkner and Lynn Mundell co-founded 100 Word Story, an online literary journal that publishes stories that are exactly 100 words long. [3] Stories published in 100 Word Story has been included on Wigleaf’s Top (Very) Short Fictions list [4] and anthologized in the annual Best Small Fictions series and W.W Norton's New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. [5]

In 2012, he became Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), taking over from founder Chris Baty. [6] With more than 500,000 writers signing up to take part in NaNoWriMo’s programs annually, it’s the largest writing event in the world.

NaNoWriMo emphasizes that everyone has a story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. “Humans are naturally wired to tell stories because that’s how we make meaning of the world,” Faulkner said. “So everyone has a story—or many stories—to tell. Everyone is a creative type by definition.”

In 2014, Faulkner co-founded the Flash Fiction Collective, a reading series in San Francisco, with writers Jane Ciabattari and Meg Pokrass.

In 2018, Faulkner launched the podcast "Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers" with co-host Brooke Warner of SheWrites.com.

Career

Grant took over the post on January 9, 2012. [7]. He has participated in NaNoWriMo since 2010.

Before joining the NaNoWriMo staff, he served as a Board of Directors member in 2011 and managed online communications at the National Writing Project, another Bay Area writing non-profit.

Outside of NaNoWriMo, Grant is also the founder and editor of 100 Word Story, a literary journal featuring short stories and flash fiction. [8] He also wrote Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Prompts to Boost Your Creative Mojo, published October 2017.

He plans to master tap dancing one day and invited Night of Writing Dangerously attendees to dance with him on stage during the 2014 event.

References

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