Meet the Author - Grant Faulkner
Schedule
Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
2629 Beaver Ave Ste S1, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50310 | Des Moines, IA
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Fiction writer Grant Faulkner teamed with photographer Gail Butensky to create a truly unique book.something out there in the distance is a “flash novel” made up of short-short stories that are told to photographs and all link together into a longer narrative. The story is about two lovers taking a reckless, searching road trip through the American West. Dawn is a photographer who captures desert landscapes and is fleeing from a terminal illness. Jonny drives just to drive, running away from the end of time or running toward the end of time, looking for a home even as his restlessness overtakes him.
It’s a photo book. It’s a novel. It’s both.
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 has published three books on writing: The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story; 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 “flash novel,” something out there in the distance, a book of photos with accompanying stories, just came out.
This event will be moderated by Kali White VanBaale, a Des Moines-area creative writing professor and award-winning author of novels, short stories, essays, and articles. She is the author of the novels The Monsters We Make, The Good Divide, and The Space Between. She’s the recipient of an American Book Award, an Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction, the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novel Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for General Fiction, an Iowa Arts Council major artist grant, and the Great River Writer’s Retreat. She also writes and publishes short stories and essays, is a regular contributor to the A&E Network Real Crime blog series, and serves as the managing editor of the micro-essay journal The Past Ten.
Kali holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She’s a core faculty member in the Lindenwood University MFA in Writing Program and regularly teaches writing workshops at various conferences and festivals. In addition to writing and teaching, Kali is an advocate and state lobbyist for mental healthcare reform.
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