You’re invited to join the conversation today
…with Grant Faulkner, author, coach, and inspirational speaker
All subscribers are welcome to join our Monday Zoom lunch session today with an extraordinary author, teacher, coach, and future guest speaker scheduled for the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat this fall: Grant Faulkner.*
Faulkner is a highly regarded writing coach, who leads an ever-growing movement among fiction writers called NaNoWriMo - short for National Novel Writing Month. During November the hashtag #NaNoWriMo is all over Twitter, as aspiring authors chronicle the task of devoting every day of the the month to writing a novel.
How does that work?
We’ll talk about this and much more, including his time in Iowa when he attended Grinnell College.
From his website:
Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder 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 teen writing guide. He’s also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide, a collection of short stories, Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and Best Small Fictions. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. He serves on the National Writing Project’s Writer’s Council, Lit Camp’s Advisory Council, and Aspen Words’ Creative Council. He’s also the co-host of the podcast Write-minded.
Zoom link
Topic
GRANT FAULKNER
Jan 23, 2023 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83862025525
*Previously, the Monday Zoom Lunch sessions were limited to paid subscribers to this Potluck column. It was set up to raise funds for scholarships to the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat. Paid subscribers enabled 20 recipients to attend last year, Although those funds are needed and appreciated by the beneficiaries, and we hope you continue to become a paid subscriber if you are able, we also want to encourage participation in these extraordinary interview shows, so we are taking down the paywall. Please join us today.
The participants and notable guests are equally of interest, and we think you’ll benefit from the conversation.
Okoboji
We are close to half way toward the total number of people we can accomodate for the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat. It has sold out each year, and former participants are placing bets on the date it will have to be capped for 2023.
In other words, don’t procrastinate. ENROLL
If you’ve considered going, but don’t feel like you’re a writer, or good enough, or all the other excuses many think of not to enroll, please just go ahead and save your place to take advantage of the Early Bird discount, ending January 30. The fee is refundable until September 1 (less bank service charge), so there’s plenty of time to chicken out or have something ‘come up.’
Grant Faulkner is one of over 30 resources who will be leading workshops and serving on panels during OWR III. Speakers are all coming to help you, whether you simply want to write a better holiday newsletter, or tackle a book project. COME, doggone it! Come! It’s a magical experience. Www.okobojiwritersretreat.com
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Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Columnists
Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights
Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll
Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines
Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake
Suzanna de Baca Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley
Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County
Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji
Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames
Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines
Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilla
Dana James: New Black Iowa, Des Moines
Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley, Waterloo
Fern Kupfer: Fern and Joe, Ames
Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey
Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa
Kurt Meyer, Showing Up, St. Ansgar
Kyle Munson, Kyle Munson’s Main Street, Des Moines
Jane Nguyen, The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines
John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines
Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines
Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics: Behind the Curtain, Washington, D.C.
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, Kalona
Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County
Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport
Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines
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