Jake Morris-Campbell
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social
Writer & Poet
'Between the salt and the ash: a journey into the soul of Northumbria' (MUP, March 2025)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175373/
'Between the salt and the ash: a journey into the soul of Northumbria' (MUP, March 2025)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175373/
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Don't miss
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social on a mini book tour in the North-East this autumn, with events at Durham Book Festival,
@crossingthetees.bsky.social, Blyth Celebrates and #Newcastle @litandphil.bsky.social.
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social on a mini book tour in the North-East this autumn, with events at Durham Book Festival,
@crossingthetees.bsky.social, Blyth Celebrates and #Newcastle @litandphil.bsky.social.
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Don't miss
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social on a mini book tour in the North-East this autumn, with events at Durham Book Festival,
@crossingthetees.bsky.social, Blyth Celebrates and #Newcastle @litandphil.bsky.social.
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social on a mini book tour in the North-East this autumn, with events at Durham Book Festival,
@crossingthetees.bsky.social, Blyth Celebrates and #Newcastle @litandphil.bsky.social.
Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.
Join us next month as @lilydunn.bsky.social hits the road next month to launch her new book, 'Into being', sharing the secrets of writing memoir.
Coming to a bookshop, festival or university near you, visit our Events page for more info and tickets: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events #booksky
Coming to a bookshop, festival or university near you, visit our Events page for more info and tickets: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events #booksky
September 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.
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Tickets are on sale now for Hidden Histories with @lanre-bakare.bsky.social & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social at Durham Book Festival.
Both authors highlight the unsung stories of people from across the North, painting a portrait of a diverse and rich heritage: newwritingnorth.com/event/hidden...
Both authors highlight the unsung stories of people from across the North, painting a portrait of a diverse and rich heritage: newwritingnorth.com/event/hidden...
August 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Tickets are on sale now for Hidden Histories with @lanre-bakare.bsky.social & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social at Durham Book Festival.
Both authors highlight the unsung stories of people from across the North, painting a portrait of a diverse and rich heritage: newwritingnorth.com/event/hidden...
Both authors highlight the unsung stories of people from across the North, painting a portrait of a diverse and rich heritage: newwritingnorth.com/event/hidden...
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Just read @jakecampbell88.bsky.social 's excellent 'Between the salt and the ash'. It chronicles his pilgrimage around the passionate places among the passionate people of the North East. A place I still think of as hyem.
July 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just read @jakecampbell88.bsky.social 's excellent 'Between the salt and the ash'. It chronicles his pilgrimage around the passionate places among the passionate people of the North East. A place I still think of as hyem.
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Coming up soon, @forumbooks.bsky.social presents an evening with @jakecampbell88.bsky.social in conversation with John Challis at the bound, Whitley Bay.
17th July
Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/whi...
#Newcastle #booksky
17th July
Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/whi...
#Newcastle #booksky
July 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Coming up soon, @forumbooks.bsky.social presents an evening with @jakecampbell88.bsky.social in conversation with John Challis at the bound, Whitley Bay.
17th July
Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/whi...
#Newcastle #booksky
17th July
Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/whi...
#Newcastle #booksky
Sharing again for afternoon crowd.
This is an urban-based study, but now I'm living in the countryside, I'm increasingly aware of the dearth of opportunities for writers away from metropolitan areas.
Does anyone know of any work in this area: to promote networks of writers in rural communities?
This is an urban-based study, but now I'm living in the countryside, I'm increasingly aware of the dearth of opportunities for writers away from metropolitan areas.
Does anyone know of any work in this area: to promote networks of writers in rural communities?
Article I co-wrote with James Annesley has been published by Creative Industries journal. In it, we discuss the North-East's literary ecology (how contemporary writing happens & is supported, basically) through the prism of New Writing North, England's largest regional writing development agency.
New writing North: writing development, the cultural industries and the North East’s literary ecology
This paper looks at England’s regional writing development agencies (RWDAs) and considers the ways they make contemporary writing happen. Focussing on New Writing North, it starts by describing the...
www.tandfonline.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sharing again for afternoon crowd.
This is an urban-based study, but now I'm living in the countryside, I'm increasingly aware of the dearth of opportunities for writers away from metropolitan areas.
Does anyone know of any work in this area: to promote networks of writers in rural communities?
This is an urban-based study, but now I'm living in the countryside, I'm increasingly aware of the dearth of opportunities for writers away from metropolitan areas.
Does anyone know of any work in this area: to promote networks of writers in rural communities?
Article I co-wrote with James Annesley has been published by Creative Industries journal. In it, we discuss the North-East's literary ecology (how contemporary writing happens & is supported, basically) through the prism of New Writing North, England's largest regional writing development agency.
New writing North: writing development, the cultural industries and the North East’s literary ecology
This paper looks at England’s regional writing development agencies (RWDAs) and considers the ways they make contemporary writing happen. Focussing on New Writing North, it starts by describing the...
www.tandfonline.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Article I co-wrote with James Annesley has been published by Creative Industries journal. In it, we discuss the North-East's literary ecology (how contemporary writing happens & is supported, basically) through the prism of New Writing North, England's largest regional writing development agency.
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Thanks to Andy Potts and @northeastbylines.co.uk for this excellent review of the late William Martin’s Marratide: Selected Poems (edited by Peter Armstrong & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social).
Marratide: a timely retrospective of a Wearside bard
Review of the new anthology collection by Sunderlands, poet William Martin
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
Review of the new anthology collection by Sunderlands, poet William Martin
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
Marratide: a timely retrospective of a Wearside bard
Review of the new anthology collection by Sunderlands, poet William Martin
northeastbylines.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thanks to Andy Potts and @northeastbylines.co.uk for this excellent review of the late William Martin’s Marratide: Selected Poems (edited by Peter Armstrong & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social).
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'A must-buy for lovers of the extraordinary poetry of William Martin [...] These verses are exquisitely spare yet depthlessly rich in their vision and musicality.' – Jane Pikett, The Northumbrian, on Marratide: Selected Poems (edited by Peter Armstrong & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social).
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
'A must-buy for lovers of the extraordinary poetry of William Martin [...] These verses are exquisitely spare yet depthlessly rich in their vision and musicality.' – Jane Pikett, The Northumbrian, on Marratide: Selected Poems (edited by Peter Armstrong & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social).
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Editors Peter Armstrong & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social will be launching Marratide: Selected Poems and remembering William Martin at the @litandphil.bsky.social in Newcastle tomorrow evening, 21 May, 7.30pm, and at St Chad's College Chapel in Durham on 27 May, 7pm - both with poet #GillianAllnutt.
May 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Editors Peter Armstrong & @jakecampbell88.bsky.social will be launching Marratide: Selected Poems and remembering William Martin at the @litandphil.bsky.social in Newcastle tomorrow evening, 21 May, 7.30pm, and at St Chad's College Chapel in Durham on 27 May, 7pm - both with poet #GillianAllnutt.
Wild Writing: Shores of Memory, Tides of Truth.
Next Monday I'm reading from my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book at @wowfest.bsky.social with two incredible Merseyside authors: Tony Wailey and @wildtwin.bsky.social
Celebrate 25 years of radical writing in Liverpool (with a Northumbrian twist!)
Next Monday I'm reading from my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book at @wowfest.bsky.social with two incredible Merseyside authors: Tony Wailey and @wildtwin.bsky.social
Celebrate 25 years of radical writing in Liverpool (with a Northumbrian twist!)
May 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Wild Writing: Shores of Memory, Tides of Truth.
Next Monday I'm reading from my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book at @wowfest.bsky.social with two incredible Merseyside authors: Tony Wailey and @wildtwin.bsky.social
Celebrate 25 years of radical writing in Liverpool (with a Northumbrian twist!)
Next Monday I'm reading from my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book at @wowfest.bsky.social with two incredible Merseyside authors: Tony Wailey and @wildtwin.bsky.social
Celebrate 25 years of radical writing in Liverpool (with a Northumbrian twist!)
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Don't miss @jakecampbell88.bsky.social, Tony Wailey and @wildtwin.bsky.social at the upcoming @wowfest.bsky.social in #Liverpool in May!
Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling as the panel explore memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between.
Tickets:
Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling as the panel explore memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between.
Tickets:
Wild Writing: Shores of Memory, Tides of Truth - Writing on the Wall
Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling with 'Wild Writing,' a festival exploration of memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between
writingonthewall.org.uk
May 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Don't miss @jakecampbell88.bsky.social, Tony Wailey and @wildtwin.bsky.social at the upcoming @wowfest.bsky.social in #Liverpool in May!
Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling as the panel explore memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between.
Tickets:
Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling as the panel explore memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between.
Tickets:
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We're thrilled to have FIVE authors at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social!
2nd June- @jakecampbell88.bsky.social & Jean Strouse (online)
5th June- Mikael Klintman (online)
7th June- @emmahcasey.bsky.social (in-person)
9th June- @aldersonday.bsky.social (in-person)
yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calendar/
2nd June- @jakecampbell88.bsky.social & Jean Strouse (online)
5th June- Mikael Klintman (online)
7th June- @emmahcasey.bsky.social (in-person)
9th June- @aldersonday.bsky.social (in-person)
yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calendar/
May 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We're thrilled to have FIVE authors at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social!
2nd June- @jakecampbell88.bsky.social & Jean Strouse (online)
5th June- Mikael Klintman (online)
7th June- @emmahcasey.bsky.social (in-person)
9th June- @aldersonday.bsky.social (in-person)
yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calendar/
2nd June- @jakecampbell88.bsky.social & Jean Strouse (online)
5th June- Mikael Klintman (online)
7th June- @emmahcasey.bsky.social (in-person)
9th June- @aldersonday.bsky.social (in-person)
yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calendar/
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Looking forward to Wild Writing and celebrating 25 years of Radical Writing with Writing on the Wall
Quaker Meeting House: 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT
May 12, 2025, 7:00 pm
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social @wowfest.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
Quaker Meeting House: 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT
May 12, 2025, 7:00 pm
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social @wowfest.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
Wild Writing: Shores of Memory, Tides of Truth - Writing on the Wall
Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling with 'Wild Writing,' a festival exploration of memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between
writingonthewall.org.uk
April 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Looking forward to Wild Writing and celebrating 25 years of Radical Writing with Writing on the Wall
Quaker Meeting House: 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT
May 12, 2025, 7:00 pm
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social @wowfest.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
Quaker Meeting House: 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT
May 12, 2025, 7:00 pm
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social @wowfest.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
Marvelous Merseyside launch for Salt & Ash tonight at Dead Ink Books, Smithdoon. Here I am with my wonderful friend and colleague, fellow poet @helentookey.bsky.social who led such a rich discussion. Big love to the friends, students & co-workers who made it out in support: true marras! Gan canny x
April 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Marvelous Merseyside launch for Salt & Ash tonight at Dead Ink Books, Smithdoon. Here I am with my wonderful friend and colleague, fellow poet @helentookey.bsky.social who led such a rich discussion. Big love to the friends, students & co-workers who made it out in support: true marras! Gan canny x
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Join #HolyPlaces author @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social and #BetweenTheSaltAndTheAsh author @jakecampbell88.bsky.social for a evening of pilgrimage and place at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social. More info below!
📅 Thurs 1st May
🕡 6:30–8:30pm
📍 Blackwell's Manchester
🎟️ Via 🔗
📅 Thurs 1st May
🕡 6:30–8:30pm
📍 Blackwell's Manchester
🎟️ Via 🔗
Jake Morris-Campbell & Kathryn Hurlock in conversation with Peter Scott
Join us on a journey through pilgrimage and place, with Jake Morris-Campbell & Kathryn Hurlock in conversation with Professor Peter Scott
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Join #HolyPlaces author @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social and #BetweenTheSaltAndTheAsh author @jakecampbell88.bsky.social for a evening of pilgrimage and place at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social. More info below!
📅 Thurs 1st May
🕡 6:30–8:30pm
📍 Blackwell's Manchester
🎟️ Via 🔗
📅 Thurs 1st May
🕡 6:30–8:30pm
📍 Blackwell's Manchester
🎟️ Via 🔗
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This week at @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social don't miss @jakecampbell88.bsky.social in conversation with Helen Tookey about his acclaimed new book, Between the salt and the ash.
Tickets and info at the link below 👇 #Liverpool #booksky
Tickets and info at the link below 👇 #Liverpool #booksky
HELLO let's have a look at what's coming up for the next few weeks at the bookshop! For all these events, you can find more info / tickets via the link in our bio or head straight for deadinkbookshop.com!
April 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This week at @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social don't miss @jakecampbell88.bsky.social in conversation with Helen Tookey about his acclaimed new book, Between the salt and the ash.
Tickets and info at the link below 👇 #Liverpool #booksky
Tickets and info at the link below 👇 #Liverpool #booksky
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Event!
Wild Writing at Writing on the Wall. Mon May 12 at Quaker Meeting House with Tony Wailey and Jake Morris-Campbell. @wowfest.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @jakecampbell88.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
Wild Writing at Writing on the Wall. Mon May 12 at Quaker Meeting House with Tony Wailey and Jake Morris-Campbell. @wowfest.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @jakecampbell88.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
Wild Writing: Shores of Memory, Tides of Truth - Writing on the Wall
Dive into the raw, untamed heart of storytelling with 'Wild Writing,' a festival exploration of memoir, fiction, and the spaces in between
writingonthewall.org.uk
April 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Event!
Wild Writing at Writing on the Wall. Mon May 12 at Quaker Meeting House with Tony Wailey and Jake Morris-Campbell. @wowfest.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @jakecampbell88.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
Wild Writing at Writing on the Wall. Mon May 12 at Quaker Meeting House with Tony Wailey and Jake Morris-Campbell. @wowfest.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @jakecampbell88.bsky.social
writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/wil...
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We are thrilled to bring you an evening of pilgrimage and place writing with authors @jakecampbell88.bsky.social and Kathryn Hurlock, who will be discussing their new books at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social on May 1st.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jake-morri...
#holyweek #manchester #booksky
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jake-morri...
#holyweek #manchester #booksky
Jake Morris-Campbell & Kathryn Hurlock in conversation with Peter Scott
Join us on a journey through pilgrimage and place, with Jake Morris-Campbell & Kathryn Hurlock in conversation with Professor Peter Scott
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We are thrilled to bring you an evening of pilgrimage and place writing with authors @jakecampbell88.bsky.social and Kathryn Hurlock, who will be discussing their new books at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social on May 1st.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jake-morri...
#holyweek #manchester #booksky
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jake-morri...
#holyweek #manchester #booksky
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Our letter urging the restoration of the Creative Writing A Level in England appears in @thetls.bsky.social with co-signers @kitdewaal.bsky.social and Derek Neale. Let’s go!
April 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Our letter urging the restoration of the Creative Writing A Level in England appears in @thetls.bsky.social with co-signers @kitdewaal.bsky.social and Derek Neale. Let’s go!
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Really looking forward to this event at @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Smithdown Rd on 24th - Jake will be reading from his fantastic new book and we’ll be chatting about it:
Scousers: the next Salt & Ash event is at your mega indie bookseller on Smithdown Road, @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social where I'll be in conversation with my friend and colleague, the wonderful writer Helen Tookey. Get doon!
April 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Really looking forward to this event at @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Smithdown Rd on 24th - Jake will be reading from his fantastic new book and we’ll be chatting about it:
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The full @wowfest.bsky.social programme is now available to browse on their website, don't miss events with @jakecampbell88.bsky.social and The Singh Twins at this year's festival! 👇🎟️ #booksky #Liverpool #WoWFEST25
📚✊WoWFEST: 25 Years of Radical Writing✊📚
🎉We’ve released LOADS more incredible names to the #WoWFEST25 lineup!
➡️https://ow.ly/ymne50VqpPf
Stay tuned for a MASSIVE final announcement next week!
🎉We’ve released LOADS more incredible names to the #WoWFEST25 lineup!
➡️https://ow.ly/ymne50VqpPf
Stay tuned for a MASSIVE final announcement next week!
April 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The full @wowfest.bsky.social programme is now available to browse on their website, don't miss events with @jakecampbell88.bsky.social and The Singh Twins at this year's festival! 👇🎟️ #booksky #Liverpool #WoWFEST25
Scousers: the next Salt & Ash event is at your mega indie bookseller on Smithdown Road, @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social where I'll be in conversation with my friend and colleague, the wonderful writer Helen Tookey. Get doon!
April 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Scousers: the next Salt & Ash event is at your mega indie bookseller on Smithdown Road, @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social where I'll be in conversation with my friend and colleague, the wonderful writer Helen Tookey. Get doon!
"The book is beautifully crafted and gloriously self-centred".
Grateful to Rob Colls for this thoughtful appraisal of Between the Salt and the Ash – Book of the Day in New Statesman!
Grateful to Rob Colls for this thoughtful appraisal of Between the Salt and the Ash – Book of the Day in New Statesman!
A poet’s journey through the north-east reveals our universal desire to belong to a place we call home.
📖 Book of the Day: Robert Colls on a Northumbrian pilgrimage
📖 Book of the Day: Robert Colls on a Northumbrian pilgrimage
A Northumbrian pilgrimage
A poet’s journey through the north-east reveals our universal desire to belong to a place we call home.
www.newstatesman.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"The book is beautifully crafted and gloriously self-centred".
Grateful to Rob Colls for this thoughtful appraisal of Between the Salt and the Ash – Book of the Day in New Statesman!
Grateful to Rob Colls for this thoughtful appraisal of Between the Salt and the Ash – Book of the Day in New Statesman!
Never use a 'yes' when an 'aye' will dee.
Really grateful to Jen for the opportunity to discuss Between the Salt and the Ash and cover some fair auld northern ground!
Really grateful to Jen for the opportunity to discuss Between the Salt and the Ash and cover some fair auld northern ground!
'The North of England isn't glitzy or fancy, it's a beautiful, rugged and honest place.'
Poet and pilgrim @jakecampbell88.bsky.social on his new books from @manchesterup.bsky.social and @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, walking the North and his mining heritage.
on.soundcloud.com/DLuYkLMTorAY...
Poet and pilgrim @jakecampbell88.bsky.social on his new books from @manchesterup.bsky.social and @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, walking the North and his mining heritage.
on.soundcloud.com/DLuYkLMTorAY...
March 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Never use a 'yes' when an 'aye' will dee.
Really grateful to Jen for the opportunity to discuss Between the Salt and the Ash and cover some fair auld northern ground!
Really grateful to Jen for the opportunity to discuss Between the Salt and the Ash and cover some fair auld northern ground!