Posts by Leslie Kirk Campbell
AWP Conference 2023 March 8-11, 2023
AWP: Association of Writers & Writing Programs Seattle Convention Center Panel: Ambition of the Short Story: Bringing the Short Form Front and Center: Leslie Kirk Campbell, Sidik Fofana, Erica Plouffe Lazure, and Daniel Olivas Panel: Journey to the Prize: Five Women, Five Prizewinning Debut Story Collections: Kerry Dolan, Kate McIntyre, AJ Bermudez, Leslie Kirk Campbell, and Erica Plouffe Lazure…
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Western Connecticut State University MFA Residency: Guest Author January 3-8, 2023
In-person events Danbury, CT Reading & Lecture (Date & Time TBA)
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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.
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…
Read MoreLeslie Kirk Campbell Recommends… in Poets & Writers
“I remember the dramatic moments that nearly stopped me as I wrote my first story collection. After a tough manuscript review with a top-notch editor, I dove, seemingly irretrievably, into deep despair. I lost belief in myself. I mean, it was bad. Days dragged into weeks, my desk uninhabited. Then one day, I went and…
Read MoreCalm Before the Storm
THE BOOK TOUR: Well, the rubber really did hit the road. I did six book events in February. I have seven book events in March. Five in April. And I just found out I will be presenting on a featured fiction panel during the Bay Area Book Festival the first week of May! My book…
Read MoreA Constellation of Fiction: How to Tell When You Have a Short Story Collection in LitHub
Leslie Kirk Campbell on Finding the Shape of a Book Alnitak, 800 light years from the Earth; Alnilam, 1340 light years, and Mintaka, 915 light years from where you are sitting now—the three stars that make up Orion’s Belt, one of the most recognizable stellar events in the Earth’s night sky, are each more than…
Read MoreExhaustion & Gratitude
On this day, the day before the public launch of my book, this is how I feel. Exhausted after juggling dozens of balls in the air for months – details, people, dates, queries, correspondences, posts, promotions – and grateful for the many incredible people I have met along the way, which includes, most recently, reviewers and event…
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