Posts by Leslie Kirk Campbell
LITERARY NEWS 2025
ALOHA! Another year has transpired, a year in which the key words of my literary life have been: LOSS, RESISTANCE, and COMMUNITY. I unexpectedly lost my best friend this year, my bestie since we were both 10. Her name is Cathy Colman, a poet, who, in January, became a refugee of the Pacific Palisades fire. While her rented…
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STORIES ON STAGE DAVIS Sunday, January 11, 2026
In-person event DRAMATIC READINGS OF SHORT FICTION Written by Leslie Kirk Campbell and Edward Gauvin. 4-6PM PT Sudwerk Brewery, 2001 – 2nd St., Davis, CA
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WORDS & STORIES SERIES April 25, 2025
In-person event TJPA’s Salesforce Park Main Plaza 425 Mission Street, San Francisco Readings with Leslie Kirk Campbell & Laura Doyle Hosted by THE WRITERS GROTTO Free event. Noon-1pm PST
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AWP Conference Thursday, March 27, 2025
In-person event Room 502B, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles Thieves or Transformers: How Much of Fiction is Fiction Panel discussion and Q & A with authors T Kira Mahealani Madden, Sidik Fofana, and Ananda Lima, and entertainment lawyer Lizbeth Hasse Moderated by Leslie Kirk Campbell, 9-10:15am PT
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THE WRITERS GROTTO READING Friday, January 27, 2025
In-person event The Writers Grotto 1663 Mission Street, Suite 602, San Francisco Readers: Leslie Kirk Campbell, Paul S. Flores, Margaret Juhae Lee & Brad Balukjian Free/donation: 5-7pm PST https://writersgrotto.org
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How did this happen? My short story, “Toltec on Haight,” became a novella at 31,000 words! Inspired by my own Beatnik uncle, an avantgarde filmmaker, abandoned before birth by his Mexican actor and filmmaker father, the most famous Mexican film director of the 1940s, Emilio Fernandez, it is a story of a troubled and talented…
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SHORT STORIES NIGHT Saturday, August 10, 2024
In-person event Telegraph Hill Books 1501 Grant Avenue, San Francisco Reading & Book signing, 7-9 pm (Reading with Toni Mirosevich, Elizabeth Stix, & Zach Williams) RSVP here. Click here for more info.
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BOOK CLUB Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Private virtual event Hosted in Denver by Anne Coffey Proctor Featured author and Q&A. 5:30-6:30 MT
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Leslie Kirk Campbell is the inspiring author of the short fiction collection The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs and the founder of Ripe Fruit Writing in SF. She emphasizes the importance of one’s identity, freedom, and self will through her own personal experiences across her various works. How would you describe yourself as an author? What…
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BOOK CLUB Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Private virtual event Hosted in Cape Cod by Alan McDonald Featured Author and Q&A 4-5:30pm ET
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