Staff
Grant Faulkner’s lucky number is 33, but he likes to bet on 23. He became a writer because he doesn’t like counting. He specializes in short stories that are two pages too long. Despite that, he’s published The Art of Brevity, a collection of 100-word stories, Fissures, and All the Comfort Sin Can Provide. His stories have been included in several flash fiction anthologies, including Norton’s Flash Fiction America, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction.
He’s also executive director of National Novel Writing Month because he likes things big and small. His book on developing a creative mindset to write year-round, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo, was recently released by Chronicle Books.
He’s currently working on a book, The Secret History of the World, which can never be published for obvious reasons. He believes that the tale of Peter Rabbit tells everything one needs to know about life.
Find Grant online on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Listen to his podcast, Write-minded, and subscribe to his newsletter Intimations: A Writer’s Discourse.
Contact Grant for readings, workshops, or speeches.
Beret Olsen (she/her) is a writer, editor, photographer, and long-time fan of the Oxford comma.
Her personal history includes (in no particular order): birth, the CDC, Grape Nuts™, South Dakota, Paul Wellstone, darkroom chemistry, Carleton College, very bad dogs, Teach for America, and Omar Epps’s mother.
For her first mid-life crisis, she went to art school. It was great.
Currently, Beret edits words and images in the Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and two teens. Her fiction and essays have been published in literary journals including SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, First Class Lit, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and the Laurel Review (upcoming), as well as on her blog, Bad Parenting 101. You can find her photography at www.beretolsen.com.
Lynn Mundell (she/her) co-founded 100 Word Story and co-edited through 2022. Her writing has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Booth, Tin House, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton & Company), and elsewhere. Lynn’s chapbook Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us was published by Yemassee in 2022.
