JAKE MORRIS-CAMPBELL was born in South Shields and now lives in the Welsh Marches near Oswestry. His book of narrative non-fiction, Between the Salt and the Ash: A Journey into the Soul of Northumbria, was published by Manchester University Press in 2025.
In 2021, Blue Diode Press published his debut collection of poetry, Corrigenda for Costafine Town, which was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Selected as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, Jake makes regular broadcast appearances on Radio 3, and has been commissioned to write new materials for programmes including The Essay, Northern Drift and Free Thinking.
He regularly collaborates with creative practitioners on multidisciplinary arts shows, often using walking methods as a basis for his writing. Jake is an experienced mentor, facilitator and workshop leader, currently working as Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University and was Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Chester. He has taught for the Poetry School and widely in community settings.
- Areas of expertise: poetry (paerticularly lyric poetry concerned with space, place and belonging), narrative non-fiction (especially memoir & travel), creative non-fiction (including hybrid works of poetry prose)
- Locations: Shropshire, North Wales, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Possible meeting places: Booka Bookshop café (Oswestry), Gladstone’s Library (Hawarden), Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Pink Lane Coffee (Newcastle)
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