Posts by Leslie Kirk Campbell
Autumn News & Holiday Book Sale
THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS OF LEGS WAS SELECTED BY THE WOMEN’S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION (WBNA) AS A GREAT GROUP READ! The annual list features 20 books chosen by a committee of 46 readers out of hundreds of submissions. According to the WBNA announcement, “books were chosen for their literary merit and for their ability to…
Read More1-Week Critique: The Interview Series – An Ongoing Discussion of Process
Watch Matthew Schmidt’s in-depth video interview with Leslie Kirk Campbell. Their conversation focuses on the revision of the titular story from the collection The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Sarabande Books, 2022). Schmidt and Campbell chat about the importance of beginnings, middles, and ends of stories, and more. Enjoy! Interview conducted on 10/19/2022. The…
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AWP Conference 2023 March 8-11, 2023
AWP: Association of Writers & Writing Programs Seattle Convention Center Thursday, March 9, 12:10-1:25pm Panel: Ambition of the Short Story: Bringing the Short Form Front and Center: Leslie Kirk Campbell, Sidik Fofana, Erica Plouffe Lazure, and Daniel Olivas Friday, March 10, 1:45-3pm Panel: Journey to the Prize: Five Women, Five Prizewinning Debut Story Collections: Kerry Dolan, Kate McIntyre, AJ…
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Western Connecticut State University MFA Residency: Guest Author January 3-8, 2023
In-person events Danbury, CT Reading & Lecture January 7th & January 8th
Read MoreMy Writing Life.
I want to first pay tribute to the world’s on-going efforts to champion free speech, but particularly when it comes to the free expression of art: novels, poems, theater, visual art, dance. I stand in solidarity with Salman Rushdie, an internationally known novelist who has, for decades, been a leading voice against censorship, and who…
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LitQuake LitCrawl Saturday, October 22, 2022
Sarabande Books Reading In-person event Arcana: Wine Bar & Greenhouse 2512 Mission St., San Francisco Reading 5-6pm Reading with Sarabande authors and poets: CJ Evans, Adam Davis, and Elizabeth Hughey. IF YOU MISSED IT:
Read More2022 National Book Tour Winds Down
FOR STARTERS: What a pleasant surprise to find my book recommended in Stanford Magazine, along with these other dynamic, diverse Stanford alumni! NEW RELEASES THAT INSPIRE US, they wrote, and mailed the magazine to thousands of alums! (I wrote for the Stanford Daily in 1970, covering anti-war marches and sit-ins, and worked one-on-one with Pulitzer-prize-winning Scott Momaday, House Made…
Read MoreMusings & Meanderings: Leslie Kirk Campbell talks about her debut collection in our ‘4 Questions’ chat
Interview with Leslie A. Lindsay, self-declared Book Nerd. 1. Without responding in complete sentences, what would you say THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS OF LEGS is about? Leslie Kirk Campbell: *BODIES PHYSICALLY MARKED BY MEMORIES: The way our bodies hold our pasts, visibly – bruises, scars, tattoos – and invisibly over a lifetime, or through generations. How…
Read MoreWelcoming The Storm
Yes! It was 24 degrees Fahrenheit in Madison when I arrived last Friday. And it snowed two inches on the first day of April!! Mamma mia! In Chicago, the cold rain chilled all exposed parts. In Wisconsin, the wind felt Arctic! But the storm is also a metaphor: I have been performing THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS…
Read MoreInterview with Caroline Leavitt, NYT best-selling novelist and co-founder of A Mighty Blaze, a social platform for authors
Leslie Kirk Campbell, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction talks about her astounding new collection, THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS OF LEGS, longings, settings, and so much more. I always think that writers are haunted into writing their stories, or looking to write their way into an answer for some questions they…
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