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To mark National Grief Awareness Week (December 2nd - 8th) we're proud to share the cover for @jtwelsch.bsky.social's forthcoming book, The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets, which is publishing April 2026.
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In 'Between the Salt and the Ash' author @jakecampbell88.bsky.social asks what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.
Don't miss his event at the @litandphil.bsky.social as part of Books on Tyne this Thursday, tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdf3hxhf #booksky
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.
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.
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...
Cover of 'Between the salt and the ash' by Jake Morris-Campbell.
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.
Thanks for reading, Mike!
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...
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Thanks! These are great things to know about. The way the activity faces, as you put it, is really what interests me — i.e. moving away from this idea of the rural as a blackwater periphery. Also, doesn't have to have a professional element, but I know what you mean.
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?
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.
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).
The photograph is of the books page of the June/July issue of The Northumbrian magazine pictured beside a copy of the late William Martin’s book Marratide: New & Selected Poems. The cover picture is from The Book of Kells, c. 800 AD.
'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).
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.
Ahh that's lush, thank you. Really appreciate you taking the time to come out and to get a copy of my book. I hope you enjoy it!
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!)
Oh, that is a powerful piece.
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:
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/
Btw, I meant that I'd also read the Guardian article on Conduit Books. I expect you're getting a lot of nonsense pushback. Keep gannin'!
Read both pieces with interest & – dare I admit this? – approval. I agree: we need publishing to be a broad church. As a father to a small boy, I want to think of him being able to read great male (and female)-authored books. So, more power to you, Jude. This feels to me like a timely initiative.
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...
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
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
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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
Looking forward to it!
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...
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...
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Will share soon. Thanks.
