News & Events

I’m incredibly thankful to be selected as one of nine writers for the Poets & Writers 2025 Get the Word Out Fiction Cohort. This incubator program provides mentorship to debut fiction writers to help them maximize exposure of their forthcoming books. I’m eager to get to know the other writes and support each other as we launch our books!

08.17.2020

Chelsea Stickle included GATHER US UP AND BRING US HOME in a roundup review of quarantine reading, saying "The stories pulse off the page yearning for more, leaving a beautiful bruise that ends on the perfect last sentence, for the story and the collection."

02.25.2020

I'm absolutely honored/thrilled/grateful to be selected as an Aspen Words Emerging Writer 2020 fellow! Looking forward to the workshop this summer and to meeting the other fellows.

02.21.2020

I'm honored that my short story collection was named a finalist for the 2020 Indiana Review Blue Light Book Prize!

01.07.2020

I'll be teaching an online flash fiction workshop with fellow SmokeLong editors, Meghan Phillips and Christopher Allen, beginning in February. The workshop is sold out but stay tuned, there will be another SLQ workshop this summer!

06.29.2019

Check out this cool trailer Little Fiction made for "Grapevine" -- a story Anne Rasmussen and I wrote together!

01.1.2019

So pleased that my short story collection was shortlisted for the Bridge Eight Fiction Prize! Many thanks to the editors for this honor!

I0.31.2018

had the great pleasure of reading alongside SmokeLong Quarterly editor, Chris Allen, and SmokeLong contributors, Eileen Chiew and Sharmini Aphrodite, in late November, at BooksActually in Singapore. If you weren't able to make it to the reading, you can catch the whole thing on YouTube!

09.05.2018

I'm absolutely thrilled to share the news that I've signed with a literary agent (my cat looked on with approval, of course). I'm now represented by Saba Sulaiman at Talcott Notch Literary. Saba is incredibly smart and kind and I feel lucky to have her in my corner. I love her vision for my novel and I can't wait to begin revising my manuscript with her!

08.05.2018

I’m very excited that my short story collection has been named as a semifinalist in YesYes Books Open Reading Period for Fiction!

10.10.2017

Al Kratz reviewed Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home for The Coil:​

"Grant’s story collection demonstrates the trademarks of flash fiction with precise imagery and themes of longing to be somewhere else."

09.24.2017

Joyce Chong reviewe "Good Enough” in Wildness. Chong writes "In ‘Good Enough’, Grant explores the alienness of a long delayed reunion, the picture coming together like a set of ill-fitting puzzle pieces falling into place over time."

08.31.2017

I’'m very excited to be judging the Winter 2017 contest for Reflex Flash Fiction. Entries are open September 1-November 30, 2017.

7.21.2017

I'll be reading and signing books at the Barnes & Noble at River Crossing on Saturday, August 5th at 11:00 a.m.

05.31.2017

Pease join me to celebrate the release of GATHER US UP AND BRING US HOME

When: Friday, July 14 7-9pm

Where:Indy Reads Books, 911 Massachusetts Ave, Indianapolis

Who: featuring readings from Nate Logan and Nancy Chen Long

02.27.2017

I've got several upcoming events in the Orlando area:

*Kerouac House Farewell Reading: Saturday May 20, 2017

*Atlas Obscura - Obscura Day Event: May 6, 2017

*Litlando 2017: Panel participant: The Residency Experience, March 25

*Short Attention Span Storytelling Hour: March 8 at Stardust Video & Coffee

*Culture Pop! Art 31: Borrowed Light on March 3 at Art & History Museums, Maitland, FL

07.08.20I6

I'm delighted to join the editorial team at Proximity! I'll be working with editor Maggie Messitt on Proximity's inaugural contest issue and then I will edit Issue 14 (submission deadline January 1, to be published in April 2017), themed INHERITANCE. Stay tuned for the submission call!

06.30.2016

I'm honored and thankful and ridiculously excited to be selected as the Spring 2017 Writer-in-Residence at the Kerouc House in Orlando, Florida! Congratulations to the other writers and the alternates!

01.03.2016

I'm honored and delighted to share the news that I've been selected by SmokeLong Quarterly as their 2016 Kathy Fish Fellow! I'm so excited to work with SLQ this year!

4.30.16

I'm thrilled and honored by the news that Ann Patchett selected my story as the winner of the 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction contest! And I'm really looking forward to attending the KR Writers Workshop in June!