Events

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Upcoming Book Events for

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs

Winner of the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction – Sarabande Books

Marvelous…sexy…harrowing.

Anthony Doerr, All the Light You Cannot See & Cloud Cuckoo Land

Compelling…unpredictable….vibrant and vital…a memorable force.

Stuart Dybek, Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories

Hypnotic, strange, and lovely..

Michelle Wildgen, You're Not You

2023 Readings & Events

Scroll down to see readings & events for 2023 events & 2022 Events.

Western Connecticut State University MFA Residency: Guest Author

January 3-8, 2023

In-person events

Danbury, CT

Reading & Lecture

January 7th & January 8th

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 Bermudez, Leslie Kirk Campbell, and Erica Plouffe Lazure

San Francisco State University

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

SFSU Creative Writing Department

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs assigned to students

Virtual event

Q&A with author 2 pm

Central Oregon Writer’s Guild

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

In-person event (zoom option)

Downtown Bend Library

601 NW Wall Street, Bend, OR

PRESENTATION: “THE DYNAMIC POWER OF LANGUAGE (+ HEART):

How to Get Your Writing to Light Up in the Slush Pile in Paragraph One!!”

Presentation & Book Signing 5:30-7:30pm

Noe Valley Library Anniversary Reading

Wednesday, April 26

In-person event

Noe Valley Library

451 Jersey St. San Francisco

Reading and Q&A  6:30-7:45 pm

February 2022

SAN FRANCISCO BOOK LAUNCH

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 (Pub date!)

GREEN APPLE BOOKS ON THE PARK

In-person event plus live streaming option

1231-9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA

Reading & Book Signing 7pm PST

In conversation with author Nora Caspers, The Fifth Woman, winner of the 2016 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction


IF YOU MISSED IT:

COPPERFIELD’S BOOKS

Friday, February 4, 2022

COPPERFIELD’S BOOKS (Montgomery Village)

Virtual event

Hosted in Santa Rosa, CA

Reading & Book Signing 6pm PST

In conversation with author Scott Landers, Coswell’s Guide to Tambralinga


IF YOU MISSED IT:

LITERATI BOOKSTORE

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

#1 Indie Bookstore 2019

Virtual event

At Home with Literati Series

Hosted in Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Reading & Conversation 7 pm EST

In conversation with playwright/memoirist Tanya Shaffer, The Fourth Messenger


IF YOU MISSED IT:

ZOOM FORWARD

Friday, February 18, 2022

Hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz

Virtual Event

Reading 5pm PST

With Nancy Wang & Lisa Okuhn    


IF YOU MISSED IT:

PROSPECT STREET READINGS

(previously Bennington Writers Reading)

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Virtual Event – Facebook LIve

Reading 7pm EST

With Erica Plouffe Lazure, Kim Young & Betsy Stone

Link to Prospect Street.org.

March 2022

LOS ANGELES BOOK LAUNCH

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

SKYLIGHT BOOKS

In-person event

1818 N Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 

Reading & Book Signing 7pm PST

In conversation with poet/essayist Elena Karina Byrne, If This Makes You Nervous

WORD WEEKEND

Sunday, March 6, 2022

FOLIO BOOKS

In-person event

Bethany United Methodist Church

1270 Sanchez St. San Francisco, CA

Reading & Book Signing 5pm PST

In conversation with author Allison Bartlett Hoover, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

CENTER FOR FICTION

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

In-person event

15 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, NY

Reading, Conversation & Signing 7pm EST 

In conversation with Sidik Fofana, Stories from the Tenants Downstairs

BOOK CLUB

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Virtual Event

Hosted in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Featured Author Q&A 7:45 pm EST

HONOLULU BOOK LAUNCH

Sunday, March 20, 2022

ARTS & LETTERS NU’UANU

In-person event

1164 Nu’uanu Ave., Honolulu, HI

Reading & Party 4-6pm GMT-10

In conversation with Lyla (Bonnie) Berg, Leaving the Gilded Cage

Music by Bailey Matsuda

AWP CONFERENCE

March 24-26, Philadelphia, PA

In-person event

Sarabande Books Booth

Book signing. Saturday, 3/26, 11:30am

CHICAGO SUNDAY SALON

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Virtual Event

Reading 6pm CST

with Gerald Brennan, Archy Jamjun, Natania Rosenfeld, and Irene Zabytko


IF YOU MISSED IT:

MYSTERY TO ME BOOKS

Thursday, March 31, 2022

In-person event

1863 Monroe St., Madison, WI 

Reading & Book Signing 6pm CST

In conversation with Michelle Wildgen, Bread & Butter and You Are Not You; Past Executive Editor, Tin House

April 2022

MAGERS & QUINN BOOKSELLERS

Monday, April 4, 2022

In-person event

3038 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, MN

Reading & Signing 7 pm CST

In conversation with Kathryn Savage, Groundglass (Coffee House Press, 8/2022)


IF YOU MISSED IT:

ROUNDABOUT BOOKS

Thursday, April 7, 2022

In-person event

900 NW Mt. Washington Dr. Suite 110, Bend, OR

Reading & Book Signing 6pm PST

In conversation with Ellen Santasiero, writer & teacher


IF YOU MISSED IT:

POWELL’S BOOKS

Friday, April 8, 2022

In-person event

Cedar Hills Crossing

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, OR (15 minutes from downtown Portland)

Reading & Signing 7pm PST

In conversation with Whitney Otto, Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives.

PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

In-person event

356 Commercial St, Provincetown, MA

Reading and Q&A 6pm EST

STORIES ON STAGE SACRAMENTO

Friday, April 22, 2022

In-Person event

The Auditorium at CLARA
1425-24th Street, Sacramento, CA

PERFORMANCE, Q&A and BOOK SIGNING with the authors, 7-8:30 pm PST

Actors performing the fiction of Leslie Kirk Campbell & Steve Almond, All the Secrets of the World


IF YOU MISSED IT:

Intro to Leslie @4.00 minutes; Performance of Leslie’s stories @7:30-31.00 minutes
(Steve Almond performance and Q&A @50 minutes)

Watch Facebook Live Recording

May 2022

BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL

Sunday, May 7, 2022

In-person event

Residence Inn, Ballroom 2
2121 Center Street, Berkeley (Adjacent to BART Station)

Featured Fiction Panel 11:30am-12:30pm PST

Featured Fiction Panel: “Keep Calm and Quietly Go Mad” Molly Giles, Leslie Kirk Campbell, Sarah Moss

FOLIO BOOKS – ODD MONDAYS

Monday, May 9, 2022

Virtual event

“Spring Fiction Fling”

Hosted in San Francisco

Reading, 7-8pm PST

Readings by Leslie Kirk Campbell, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs; Mimi Lok, Last of Her Name; Karen Melander Magoon, Footsteps Whispering; & Toni Mirosevich, Spell Heaven

June 2022

NATIVE BOOKS

Thursday, June 30, 2022

In-person event

1164 Nu’uanu Ave., Honolulu, HI 

BOOK SIGNING & TALK STORY, 4-6pm

July 2022

MRS. DALLOWAY’S BOOKSTORE

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

In-person event

2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA  94705

Reading & Signing  7pm PST

In conversation with author Keenan Norris

September 2022

The Bookery & Myrtle Tree Arts

Friday, September 23, 2022

In-person event

Green Room Social Club

251 Main Street, Placerville, CA

Reading & Signing 5pm

In conversation with local writer, Ameera Godwin

Poetry of the Sierra Foothills

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Hosted by: El Dorado County’s Poet Laureate, Lara Gularte

In-person event

Myrtle Tree Arts, Downtown Placerville, CA from 2-3:30pm

(Exact location available after registration)

October 2022

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:

Past Events

HILL STREET WOMEN ARTIST SALON

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Presenting artists:

Christina Leilani Campbell, playwright, actor & producer (Orange, CA)

Erica Hunt, poet & essayist (Brooklyn, NY)

Corinne Quinajon, composer & lyricist (Hilo, HI)

Leslie Kirk Campbell, fiction writer (San Francisco, CA)

2021

Women’s Artist Salon on Hill - Sunday, May 16, 11 am – 1 pm

Caoilinn Hughes, Irish poet and fiction (Dublin)
Karen Kao , author (Amsterdam)
Leah Korican, visual artist (Oakland)
Lenore Weiss , poet and fiction writer (Oakland)


Women’s Artist Salon on Hill - April 11, 2021

Kamini Ramani, memoirist. (San Francisco)
Tammie Knight, miniaturist (Concord)
Ann Coffey Proctor, water-colorist (Carmel Valley)
Leslie Kirk Campbell (San Francisco)

2020

Women’s Artist Salon on Hill - December 20, 2020

Josie Iselin, seaweed photographer (San Francisco)
Karen Wiederholt, writer (San Francisco)
Happy Hyder, photographer (Mendocino)
Helen Cohen, painter (San Francisco)

Sunday, February 16, 1-5:30 pm: Women’s Artist Salon on Hill


Saturday, March 28th 4-6 pm: San Francisco Book Launch for Cathy Colman’s brilliant book of poems, Time Crunch


Sunday, April 26, 1-5 pm: Hill Street Salon & West Coast Launch for Jenn Hollmeyer’s award-winning short fiction collection, Orders of Protection, Anne Coffey Proctor: watercolors; Rain Graves: healing stones/jewelry; Tribute to Caryl Joy Finn Campbell 1926-2020: a reading


Sunday, May 31, 4-6pm ON ZOOM: Women Artist Salon on Hill – Lenore Weiss: fiction; Corinne Quinajon: original songs; Christina Leilani Campbell: spoken word; Colette Lafia: painting; Leslie Kirk Campbell: fiction


Sunday, August 16, 4-6 ON ZOOM: Women Artist Salon on Hill – Karen Wiederholt: ceramics, Colette Lafia: painting; Jenn Hollmeyer: fiction; Leslie Kirk Campbell: fiction


Sunday, October 18, 4-6pm ON ZOOM – Women Artist Salon on Hill – Bonnie Oda Homsey: modern dance/choreography; Elena Felix: fiction; Tammie Knight: miniatures (micro-art gallery); Cathy Colman: poems; Helen Cohen: painting


Sunday, December 20, 4-6pm ON ZOOM – Women Artist Salon in Hill – Artists TBA

2019 Readings

Monday, August 19, 7:30pm: Lit Nite @ Ocean Ale House

Sunday, October 20, 1-5pm: Women’s Artists Salon on Hill

Monday, October 21, 7pm: Lit Nite @ Ocean Ale House

Sunday, November 17, 1-5pm: Women’s Artist Salon on Hill

Sunday, December 15, 1-5pm: Women’s Artist Salon on Hill