Jen Campbell

Feb 6, 2025 | thebookseller.com | James Catchpole |Lucy Catchpole |Jen Campbell

Owning It was born out of a conversation between us, three disabled writers – James and Lucy Catchpole, agents and authors, and Jen Campbell, author and book reviewer. Back in that strange, pandemic spring of 2021, Jen hosted the online book launch for James’s book What Happened to You?, and the three of us got to talking. Disability is often such a private thing. When we get to have those rare and precious conversations, there can be such a buzz: so much laughter and shared understanding.

Jul 31, 2024 | bookriot.com | Jen Campbell |Kendra Winchester

As July comes to a close, so does Disability Pride Month. Throughout this season of celebrating disabled, chronically ill, Deaf, and neurodivergent authors, we’ve featured a host of memoirs, how-to, and other nonfiction titles. For the last day of Disability Pride, we’re delving into poetry inspired by the authors’ lives. But first, let’s jump into bookish goods!I might lean team Corgi, but I am 100% also team cat. These are ADORABLE. Perfect bookmarks for any cat lover.

Nov 6, 2023 | bookshop.org | Jen Campbell

(Author) FORMAT Paperback$16.95$15.76(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussing her own relationship with hospitals -- both as a disabled person, and as an adult reflecting on childhood while going through IVF.

Sep 17, 2023 | bookanista.com | Jen Campbell

When I started writing the poems in Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit, it had been four years since my first IVF appointment. I wrote the collection over the following two years, not knowing what the end would be; I’d aimed to finish the book by winter 2022, realising I might be pregnant by then, I might not be. Wherever my body found itself, the book would meet me there. It was a strange but also vital time to be writing.

Aug 24, 2023 | ssentinel.com | Jen Campbell

(Note to readers: The Sentinel collaborated with Jen Campbell of Hartfield who has seen first hand the transformation of local young people through martial arts. This is one such story.)by Jen Campbell – The story of Manny Fernandez’s rise to the world stage of Thai boxing begins in his Topping backyard where he started training.