Events
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!!”
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
With Nancy Wang & Lisa Okuhn
IF YOU MISSED IT:
PROSPECT STREET READINGS (previously Bennington Writers Reading)
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Virtual Event – Facebook LIve
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
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
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
In conversation with Kathryn Savage, Groundglass (Coffee House Press, 8/2022)
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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)
In conversation with Whitney Otto, Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives.
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)
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
July 2022
MRS. DALLOWAY’S BOOKSTORE Wednesday, July 6, 2022
In-person event
2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705
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
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
In-person event
Arcana: Wine Bar & Greenhouse
2512 Mission St., San Francisco
Reading with Sarabande authors and poets: CJ Evans, Adam Davis, and Elizabeth Hughey.
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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