NJ CAMPBELL

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Novels:

2017. Two Dollar Radio: Found Audio 

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Short Stories (Print):

2017. New Rivers Press’ American Fiction Vol. 15: India, 1899  

2015. Rafu Shimpo: Fish Market In Little Tokyo

2014. TRN Literary Magazine: Bus

2013. Eleven and A Half Journal: Tanker

2012. Pork and Mead #5: Luxury

2012. TRN Literary Magazine: Luxury

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Short Stories (Online):

2023. Cutleaf: Alaska, 1951

2016. Brilliant Flash Fiction: Deep River, Iowa

2016. Spelk: Rain 

2016. ZEROFLASH: Fun

2015. Little Tokyo Historical Society Los Angeles: Fish Market In Little Tokyo

2015. Discover Nikkei: Fish Market In Little Tokyo

2015. Maudlin House: Transcendence

2015. Drafthorse Literary Journal: Social Services

2014. Drunk Monkeys: People In Between

2013. Twisted South Magazine: 27  

2013. Nanoism: 530  

2012. #Velvet Blory: Broke

2012. 7 x 20: Moon / Her

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Poetry: 

2014. Spoken Word Poetry: that thing i can’t name

2013. Dead Flowers: You and Me

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Articles:

2017. Publisher’s Weekly: 10 Books That Puzzle The Reader

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Awards and Accolades:

Little Tokyo Short Story Contest - 1st Place (2015)

American Fiction Prize - Finalist (2015)

North American Review Bicentennial Conference - Panelist (2015)

Accolades From The California State Legislature For Cultural Contribution (2015)

Publisher’s Weekly’s “Writers To Watch” (2017)

Ashland University M.F.A. - Visiting Writer (2018)

Maharishi International University M.F.A. - Visiting Writer (2021)

Sarah Lawrence College - Visiting Writer (2021)

Found Audio taught at Sarah Lawerence College (2021)

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Press:

2017. Chicago Tribune: The Ultimate Summer Reading List: No. 1

2017. Publisher’s Weekly: Writers to Watch Fall 2017: Anticipated Debuts

2017. Publisher’s Weekly: Best Summer Books 2017

2017. Boston Globe: New England Literary News

2017. Chicago Review of Books: 12 Books You Should Read This July

2017. Omaha World-Herald: Summer Book Preview

2017. Omaha World-Herald: Mark Your Calendar For These New Releases

2017. Electric Literature: The Great 2017 Indie Press Preview

2017. Vol. 1 Brooklyn: July 2017 Book Preview

2017. Writer’s Bone: 18 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: July 2017

2017. Book Riot: New Releases July 11, 2017

2017. Entropy: Small Press New Releases

2017. The Daily Iowan: Traversing The Enigma Inside A Mystery 

2017. Book Riot: 8 Rad Small Press Books To Check Out In July

2017. Fairfield Weekly Reader: Fairfield Resident’s Book Gets National Attention

2017. Outlandish Lit: 10 Books To Look For This July

2017. Coode Street: Debut Novels Of 2017

2017. Brazos Bookstore: Staff Summer Picks

2017. Book Riot: Peek Over Our Shoulders: What Rioters Are Reading

2017. Fairfield Ledger: Author With Ties To Community Has Successful Debut

2017. Maudlin House: Books We Recommend This September

2017. Mechanics’ Instituite - Library & Chess Room: New Titles for August

2017. Richmond Public Library: Tiny & Terrific

2017. Read It Forward: 14 Notable Epistolary Novels

2017. Changing Hands Bookstore: Best Books Of 2017

2017. Charleston Gazette-Mail: Impressive Debuts From First Time Authors

2017. Hot Off The Shelf: Found Audio by N.J. Campbell

2017. Book Riot: One Woman’s Reading Habits

2017. LitReactor: Staff Picks: The Best Books of 2017

2017. Not Without My Bowler Hat: Top Books of 2017

2017: Writer’s Bone: The 35 Best Books Of 2017

2017: Queen Mob’s: Review of 2017

2017: BookTrib: Best Books of 2017

2017: LitReactor: The Best Books of 2017

2018: Shreveport News: Out And About

2018: Lit Books: 10 Punchy Novellas to Read Now

2021: Electric Literature: 7 Books That Belong On The Literary Stunt Index

2022: Minnesota Public Radio: Ask A Bookseller: Found Audio

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Reviews:

2017. Publisher’s Weekly: Review of Found Audio

2017. Kirkus Reviews: Review of Found Audio

2017. Foreword Reviews: Review of Found Audio

2017. 3:AM Magazine: The Complicit Reader: N.J. Campbell’s Found Audio

2017. LitReactor: Bookshots: ‘Found Audio’ by N.J. Campbell 

2017. The Bookshelf: Review: Found Audio

2017. Heavy Feather Review: Review: Found Audio by N.J. Campbell

2017. Seeing The World Through Books: N.J. Campbell - Found Audio

2017. Books and Palettes: Review: Found Audio by N.J. Campbell 

2017. The Bookchemist: Found Audio by N.J. Campbell Review

2017. The Book Table: Review: Found Audio

2017. Las Vegas Weekly: Read Deeply Into The Uncomfortable Silences

2017. The Gazette: Debut Novel ‘Found Audio’ Questions What is Normal

2017. Outlandish Lit: Review of Found Audio

2017. The Ardent Biblio: Review of Found Audio

2017. Grand Hotel Abyss: Review of Found Audio 

2017. Cats Out Of The Box: Review of Found Audio

2017. Locus Magazine: Review of Found Audio

2017. Thoughts On Books I Read: Review of Found Audio

2017. The Collagist: Found Audio by N.J. Campbell

2018. The Literary Giraffe: Review of Found Audio

2018. American Book Review: Mix and Match Media

2020. Nerds Of A Feather, Flock Together: A Mystery Within A Mystery 

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Interviews:

2017. Writer’s Bone: Episode 206: Found Audio Author N.J. Campbell 

2017. The Believer: An Interview with Writer N.J. Campbell by Aaron Shulman

2017. PANK: The Mystery and Mythology of Found Audio by N.J. Campbell

2017. Electric Literature: N.J. Campbell Wants To Make You A Mixtape

2017. The Gazette: Author who grew up in Midwest Learned Early...

2017. Vol. 1 Brooklyn: The Central Mysteries

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Readings:

2017. Prairie Lights: Iowa City, IA - 7-16

2017. Arbor Bar: Fairfield, IA - 7-20

2017. Dead Rabbits Reading Series (DTUT): New York, New York - 9-10

2017. Literati: Ann Arbor, MI With Annie Hartnett, Author of Rabbit Cake - 9-18

2018. Two Dollar Radio HQ: Columbus, OH - 11-15

2021. Maharishi International University: Fairfield, IA - 2-16

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Recordings: 

2017. University of Iowa Libraries: Virtual Writing University Archive

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I’m thrilled to announce my debut novel, Found Audio, will be published on 7/11/2017 from Two Dollar Radio. 

"Amid the static of contemporary literature can be heard blips of fiction-future in N.J. Campbell’s defiantly bold Found Audio." —Steve Erickson “N.J. Campbell’s Found Audio is a wild, wonderful creature: part Borges, part VanderMeer, part forgotten '70s psychedelic action movie. Convincing, complex, and emotionally resonant—this is a book not to be missed.” —Christian Kiefer

Synopsis Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist.

On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams." Spanning decades, his quest leads him from a snake-hunter in the Louisiana bayou to the walled city of Kowloon on the eve of its destruction, from the Singing Dunes of Mongolia to a chess tournament in Istanbul. The deposition also begs the question: Who is making the recording, and why?

Despite being explicitly instructed not to, curiosity gets the better of Singh and she mails a transcription of the cassettes with her analysis to an acquaintance before vanishing. The man who bore the cassettes, too, has disappeared. The journalist was unnamed.

Here—for the first time—is the complete archival manuscript of the mysterious recordings accompanied by Singh's analysis.

If you’d like to pre-order a copy, you can do so here.

If you’re a critic, librarian, or reviewer, you can request an Advance Reader Copy here. 

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I’m pleased to announce the publication of my story, India, 1899, in New Rivers Press’ anthology American Fiction Vol. 15.

To be picked for inclusion in this anthology, I was selected as one of 21 finalists for New Rivers Press’ American Fiction Short Story Award in 2015. Steve Almond judged and he picked three fantastic stories, and although I wasn’t one of them, I did receive an honorable mention in his introduction to the collection. In it, he said he “deeply admired” the story and called it a “startling evocation of the imperial mindset as well as a tragedy of the first order”.

If you would like to check the story out for yourself, you can purchase a copy of it from New Rivers Press here.

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Hey Friends!

More good news. I’m excited to be sharing a second publication within a short time! That’s big for me, as oftentimes there’s a huge lag-time between publications. This piece is out as part of the latest issue from Brilliant Flash Fiction. If you want to check it out or any of the other great work they put out, just click here.

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Hey Friends! 

I’m excited to have a new short story, Rain, up at Spelk. They’re a great venue that curates good work. If you want to read my piece or check out any of their other fine fiction you can do that here.

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Hey Friends!

I’m so excited to have a new short story, “Fun,” on ZEROFLASH!

The whole page has a bunch of good stories. If you scroll through, you’ll see mine and many other good folks’.

Enjoy!

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Hello Friends, 

I’m excited to share a link to my award winning 1st place short story: 

Fish Market In Little Tokyo

I entered this in Little Tokyo Historical Society of Los Angeles’ short story competition at the beginning of 2015 and, despite some tough competition, I won! 

Although I’m excited to have won, I’m also excited to bring some attention to some of the local treasures and scenery in the story. If you’re in the area, go visit and see some of the places described in the story!

On a personal note, in addition to receiving a very nice 1st place award to frame, I also received a note from Miguel Santiago, the Majority Whip of the California Legislature commending me on my cultural contribution to the Los Angeles community. I teared up when I read that. I felt really recognized and also really glad to be able to celebrate Little Tokyo and LA in some small way. 

I hope you enjoy the story!

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Hey Everybody!

I’m so excited to have won a six word story publication on Maudlin House! If you’re inclined to see this short story, just click on the picture or click here.

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Hey, Friends!

I was mentioned in the ‘Recent Winners’ section of the January/February 2016 issue of Poets & Writers for winning the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s Short Story Contest last year!

In case you’re interested and you’d like to read the story, you can find it here.

Also, on that website you can find out how to submit to the contest this year if you’ve got a story!

As for the whole experience, it was absolutely wonderful. Little Tokyo is an amazing place and to be able to have contributed to its cultural scene is a great honor. After I won, I got to meet really cool people in the Skype-in to the awards reception, like Todd Shimoda (one of the judges and an award winning novelist who’s novel Subduction is fantastic) and Bill Watanabe (my contact about the awards ceremony and an all around great person). 

I can’t wait to see the work that comes out of this year’s contest!

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the silo sitting among the trees

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the quick flow of the river after the early summer rains

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the faded colors of the leaves in the bright light of the early afternoon

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the trees along the border fences 

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the debris on the forest floor after a storm

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the pines folding into the oaks in the forest

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the barn below the washed out light at midday 

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the shed on the hill in the distance