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Author · Storyteller
Will Campbell
@willcampbell
Writer interested in speculative fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Will Campbell writes across speculative fiction and literary fiction, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Will Campbell
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Archive of Small Failures
In a near-future Nottingham, a municipal archive begins preserving not just records but the moments people wish they could edit out of their lives. When the system starts returning altered versions of those memories, a quiet records clerk has to decide whether the city is being repaired or rewritten. The novel follows the messier business of trying to keep a life intact when the past has become a file format.
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Draft progress
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