I am honored, awed, and humbled that my short story anthology just received its third distinction. I was notified that The Trail Back Out was selected as a Finalist for the 2021 IAN Book of the Year Award (Short Story Collection) by the Independent Author Network. Go to this link for the finalists and winners:
2021 IAN Book of the Year Awards
The Trail Back Out was also named a 2020 Best Book Award Finalist in Fiction: Anthologies for the American Book Fest. In addition, the title story The Trail Back Out was longlisted for the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Award.
I’ve been going for long walks on the trails in the woods and orchards here, trying to absorb the news. The Trail Back Out is available for purchase and download.
NOTES: ©Jadi Campbell 2021. My other books are Grounded, Broken In: A Novel in Stories and Tsunami Cowboys.
Tsunami Cowboys was longlisted for the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Award.
Broken In: A Novel in Stories was a semifinalist for the international 2020 Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection Award from Hidden River Arts. And Broken In just received a second distinction, which will get its own post!
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Here is what readers can expect: From tales of Eddie, high on LSD and trapped by “What Died in the Fridge”, and a compulsive gambler hiding during a Category Five storm in “Better Weather”, to the luminous title story of two strangers meeting by chance in the backwoods during a pandemic, the stories describe the pain and humor of being alive. Included in this collection are “Rules to Live By”, a funny and deeply thoughtful story about what we choose to teach our children. The author examines our responsibility to others when a hunter is shot and left for dead in “The Green Under the Snow”. In “Do Dreams Float?” a wife considers a hit-man’s offer of revenge. And the eternal search for happiness is carried out by a gloomy little girl nicknamed “Princess Rain Clouds”. In ten stories, Campbell paints vivid descriptions of everyday life in strange times. Whether during the upheaval of the last century or the present COVID-19 crisis, The Trail Back Out guides the reader through a labyrinth of questions about how to live and love.
Congratulations!
1,000 thank you!
Congratulations Jadi!
Alison
Thanks so much, I am over the moon. Less than a week later I received a second distinction – two of my books are listed as Short Stories Finalists for 20221 Book of the Year. You can’t make this stuff up!! 🙂
Having read it, I’m not at all surprised. Congratulations, Jadi!
Thanks for such a beautiful compliment Emilie! I am so glad you liked the book!
Congratulations! How wonderful for you!
Wonderful is the right word – I still can’t believe it’s real!
That was to be expected because it shows that your talent is recognized. My congratulations and for sure more successes will come. Happy week.
Happy week is right. Thank you!
You are welcome
Wow. Bravo!!
Thank you – I’ve been walking around in a happy daze!
An appropriate and well-deserved recognition of your talent and skill as a writer. Congratulations.
Thank you! The news hasn’t quite sunk in yet!
Fantastic Jadi! Congratulations!
Oh Lise, I am so happy! I’m pretty sure I read versions of some of these stories to you and Rita and Riley, sitting on her beautiful balcony that summer!
Amazing and well deserved- huge congratulations to you
Thanks Beth, I am still floating