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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

A perfect gift for any explorer, whether it's the streets of 1920s London, or the Northumbrian coast, or further afield. These brilliant books are all 40% OFF until December 23rd on our website. @jakecampbell88.bsky.social @tricksterprince.bsky.social @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social #giftideas #booksky

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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. #nationalgriefawarenessweek #booksky

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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

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Books on Tyne 2025: The Newcastle Book Festival

Newcastle Libraries and The Lit & Phil present Books on Tyne 2025

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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.

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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...

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Hidden Histories with Lanre Bakare and Jake Morris-Campbell - New Writing North

Jake Morris-Campbell’s Between the Salt and the Ash asks what stories the North East can tell about itself in the...

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Mike Stores @mstores.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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.

Cover of 'Between the salt and the ash' by Jake Morris-Campbell.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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.

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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?

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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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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...

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

'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).

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.

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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.

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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!

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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!)

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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/

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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'!

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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.

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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...

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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

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Signed. Are you on LinkedIn, Carrie, so I can share with colleagues there?

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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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!

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"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!

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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!

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The Don Valley around Jarra & Boldon: the spiritual and cultural core.

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Keep your eyes peeled for further NE dates later in the spring...

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thanks again, Tom, and for using the title as a tag in your own coastal camino. You're making me homesick seeing those lovely shots of wor coast!

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Talking Northeast @talkingnortheast.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Had a great time last night at the launch of Between the Salt and the Ash by @jakecampbell88.bsky.social. Only had time to skim my copy so far, but it's full of good things. And hard not to love a travelogue that (briefly) visits the cul-de-sac where I grew up in Sunderland!

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Cheers, Andy. Here's to the monkey puzzle tree!

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