Other Writing

A Selection

Book Reviews

• The Best Novels About Life in a Haunted House by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

  Shepherd, January 2023
  The books I picked & why.

• Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay

  Washington Independent, December 9, 2022
  An exuberant if overstated ode to…well, you know.

• The Last Karankawas: A Novel by Kimberly Garza

  Washington Independent, September 15, 2022
  A diverse Galveston community grapples with turmoil on the ground and looming in the clouds.

• Mother of Strangers: A Novel by Suad Amiry

  Washington Independent, August 9, 2022
  An earnest, deeply flawed story of Palestinian suffering.

• The Fell: A Novel by Sarah Moss

  Washington Independent, March 15, 2022
  This story’s quiet start belies its propulsive finish.

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Essays

• Stories We Love: “Stranger,” by Steven Schwartz

  Fiction Writers Review, May 2, 2022
  “In Schwartz’s fiction, as in life, it is often the unspoken or withheld that holds power”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on the story “Stranger,” by Steven Schwartz, from his collection Madagascar.

• On Resisting the Pigeonhole

  Fiction Writers Review, November 15, 2021
  Ellen Prentiss Campbell: “I read and I write to explore lives I haven’t lived. To encounter different lives, responses, experiences. Historical fiction can be something like the illumination of starlight, reaching us, seemingly alive and bright, years after.”

• Resonant Places

  Cleaver Magazine, May 8, 2021
  Ellen Prentiss Campbell writes about “Houses We Live In, Homes that Live in Our Writing.”

• Many Things Are Wonderful

  Fiction Writers Review, February 15, 2021
  Ellen Prentiss Campbell meditates on the influence of teachers, fulfilling promises, and becoming who we’re meant to be in this homage to her teacher Sally Nash.

• Friendship on the Page

  On the Seawall, May 12, 2020
  Featured essay by Ellen Prentiss Campbell.

• Soothing Stories

  Washington Independent, May 7, 2020
  Favorite childhood tales feel like long-lost friends right now.

• Talking Walls

  Fiction Writers Review, November 2019
  Following the vapor trail of memory.

• Kintsugi on the Page

  Fiction Writers Review, September 2018
  If writing is kintsugi on the page, kintsugi is the art of losing.

• The Edge of the Sea by Josephine Jacobsen

  Fiction Writers Review, May 2018
  Jacobsen’s work is about the mystery of balance and falling.

• No Trespassing

  Talking Writing, February 2017
  A Therapist’s Intuition Uncover Hidden History.

• Creative Defiance

  Fiction Writers Review, December 2011
  Writing is the ultimate act of creative defiance.

• Come to Greentown

  Fiction Writers Review, November 2012
  Ray Bradbury’s Pulitzer –winning stories provide a portal back to childhood, and the ultimate SciFi shape shifter: age.

• Stories We Love: “Travel,” by Laurie Colwin

  Fiction Writers Review, May 2014
  Certain stories, like certain poems, etch onto memory.

Stories

Excerpts

• Problem Set

  The American Literary Review: Fall 2012-Spring 2013
  Joy navigated past a stream of trucks. She hated highway driving, mistrusted her night vision.

• Your Guardian, Angela

  The MacGuffin, Spring/Summer 2012
  I pride myself on my credentials as a Generalist. Good, classic pearls of wisdom go with any ensemble.

• Duets and Solos

  Talking River, 2010
  One afternoon a week they were excused early from school and rode with Mrs. Crichton in her big black sedan, one of the cars left behind by her husband. He had left her behind, too.