Name: The Art of Brevity
Start: 2026-10-10T12:30:00-0700
End: 2026-10-10T13:30:00-0700

Saturday October 10, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT

In flash fiction, the whole is a part and the part is a whole. The form forces the writer to
question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste, and move a story by hints and
implications. Flash stories are built through gaps as much as the connective tissue of words,
so what’s left out of a story is often more important than what’s included.

In this workshop, Grant Faulkner, co-founder of 100 Word Story and the author of The Art of
Brevity—will discuss how a different type of creativity emerges within a hard compositional
limit, exploring the many different forms that short shorts can take.

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Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of Memoir Nation (and also the co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast), the co-founder of the Flash Fiction Institute, the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author. He was also Executive Director of National... Read More →

Saturday October 10, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
Gatekeeper's Basket Room 130 W Lake Blvd, Tahoe City, CA 96145

Craft Talk, Fiction

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