Jenny Chamarette
@jennychambles.bsky.social
Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
In our latest author Q&A, @jennychambles.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about feeling through tendrils of queerness, what compost can teach us about breaking down, & daffodils as symbols of the violent and the sublime. Read an extract: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/08/smal...
Tickets for this year's @coastisqueerfest.bsky.social are on sale now! Author @jennychambles.bsky.social will be appearing on this brilliant panel on Saturday 17th October: coastisqueer.com/event/queer-... #booksky
Queer Nature, Radical Gardens
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And what a gorgeous review it is. Thank you @katebradbury.bsky.social 💚🩷
Caught by the River@caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 2mo ago@jennychambles.bsky.social’s ‘Q is for Garden’ — our July Book of the Month — offers connections between queerness and the soil that @katebradbury.bsky.social didn’t know she needed: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/07/q-is...
Coming up next week, join author @jennychambles.bsky.social in conversation with fellow author Diarmuid Hester at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Notting Hill for a discussion of queerness and gardening, to celebrate Jenny's new book Q is for Garden. Tickets here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/... #booksky
Jenny Chamarette in conversation with Diarmuid Hester
Buy tickets for the event with Jenny Chamarette in conversation with Diarmuid Hester at Daunt Books Notting Hill from Daunt Books today.
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I am EXCITED and also a wee bit nervous to be speaking at Lighthouse Books in their garden tomorrow evening! We will be talking radical roots, tree feelings, the contradictions of looking (especially at gender) and why conventional resilience needs to get f*cked
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 2mo agoTomorrow night in Edinburgh, don't miss author @jennychambles.bsky.social at the brilliant @lighthousebks.bsky.social, in conversation with Mairi about their new book Q is for Garden in the bookshop garden. 🌺 @edincityoflit.bsky.social #booksky
Get yourself an agent like Caro Clarke. You will never look back
Portobello Literary@portyliterary.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo thrilled to get my copies of Q is for Garden by @jennychambles.bsky.social, With My Own Hand by @ashleydouglas.bsky.social, Shorelines by @alycia.bsky.social and the proof of The Shape of Monsters by @clhellisen.bsky.social!
It’s a beautiful thing to have your work out in the world - and being read by a friend is strangely intimate and tender. Thank you for being part of the cultivation of these words, Jona xxx
Jonathan Woods@jonathanwwoods.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m reading the fascinating and beautiful Q is for Garden by my brilliant friend @jennychambles.bsky.social; it’s a wonderful exploration of the queer world of plants, ground and gardens, and a deeply personal memoir.
And here is the radiant @jennychambles.bsky.social with their beautiful new book Q is for Garden - on binaries and boundaries, earthing & unearthing, the porous & the unquantifiable.
My pal @jennychambles.bsky.social's beautiful new book is released today and I feel some of you will be interested in it!
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 3mo ago🌿 Q is for Garden is going on tour! A celebration of the communities rooted in green spaces, join author @jennychambles.bsky.social for conversations about queer cultivation with fellow garden lovers and book readers. Head to our Events page (link in bio) to book. #booksky #pridemonth
'Queer ecology in a garden is about the untamed and unpruned.' Read an extract from @jennychambles.bsky.social’s ‘Q is for Garden’ (@manchesterup.bsky.social) — our July Book of the Month, which explores how queerness & nature entwine 🌿 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/07/jenn...
On Wednesday 15th July at 7pm, the queer theme continues with @jennychambles.bsky.social on Q is for Garden and tending the histories of queer cultivation! lighthousebookshop.com/events/q-is-...
Join @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Queer Nature Extravaganza at Grow Mayow to celebrate the launch of the v excellent Q IS FOR GARDEN by the v excellent @jennychambles.bsky.social 🌱🌺 There's an afternoon & evening of activities planning, so come & be queer in the garden with us! Sat 11 July, 4-9 pm
Q is for Garden Queer Nature Extravaganza
Get ready to dive into a colourful celebration of queer nature, readings, books, music and garden magic all in one fabulous evening
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🌿 Q is for Garden is going on tour! A celebration of the communities rooted in green spaces, join author @jennychambles.bsky.social for conversations about queer cultivation with fellow garden lovers and book readers. Head to our Events page (link in bio) to book. #booksky #pridemonth
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social looking at you 👀
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 3mo agoTo celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek we asked some of our trade authors to share their favourite indie bookshops, discover their picks on our Blog here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... @gsoh31.bsky.social @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social @jennychambles.bsky.social @sacha_coward #booksky
To celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek we asked some of our trade authors to share their favourite indie bookshops, discover their picks on our Blog here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... @gsoh31.bsky.social @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social @jennychambles.bsky.social @sacha_coward #booksky
Kirkdale Bookshop invites you to the launch of my book Q is for Garden at Grow Mayow Community Garden on Saturday 11 July! Eventbrite booking link is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/q-is-for-g.... Early bird and pay what you can tickets available until June. It’ll be a blast - come join us 🌱💚🌱
Q is for Garden Queer Nature Extravaganza
Get ready to dive into a colourful celebration of queer nature, readings, books, music and garden magic all in one fabulous evening
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I see I’m in the very fine company of @sachacoward.bsky.social for MUP’s pride month discount on queer-themed books. If you’re sitting on the fence about buying your copy of Q IS FOR GARDEN, now’s your moment 💚🌱
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're celebrating Pride Month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Browse our curated reading list and use discount code PRIDE30 at checkout for 30% OFF until 30th June 2026. Head to our Blog here to shop now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... @sachacoward.bsky.social @jennychambles.bsky.social #PrideMonth #booksky
The best review from the best of reviewers. What joy it is to feel your words have met someone.
Minx Marple@minxmarple.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is a bloody marvel. @jennychambles.bsky.social has found ways to be extremely erudite and extremely tender. It’s out on July 4th and you really should make it your summer read — but not just for summer.
Publishing in July, a bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine - and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in. There is a Q in garden, but you can't always see it. Pre-order your copy today! @jennychambles.bsky.social #booksky #gardening #LGBTQIA
With all eyes on #RHSChelsea Flower Show this week, we asked author @jennychambles.bsky.social to make a short film of their garden - the place at the centre of their forthcoming book, Q is for Garden, which is out in July. Watch it on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DYjjN4kuTOt/ #booksky
jenny.chamarette on Instagram: "With all eyes on Chelsea Flower Show this week, I wrapped up in my red dressing gown to make an early morning film of my garden - t…"
With all eyes on Chelsea Flower Show this week, I wrapped up in my red dressing gown to make an early morning film of my garden - the place at the centre of my forthcoming book, Q is for Garden. In true cat fashion, Kalli chose to make herself the star of my amateur garden show, which also features several of the plants who appear in the book.I wrote Q from this garden, and my garden became the centre of what I learned about writing, plants, culture cultivation and sexuality. Gardening is a beautiful, radical act as @blacklodgepress point out. And all the interventions of more-than-human beings along the way are what helped this book to grow. ...#rhschelsea #qisforgarden #naturewriting #queergardener #catsofthegramView all comments
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It’s coming!!! Q is for Garden coming out on 7 July. More details below!
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 4mo ago12 brilliant queer books to add to your summer reading list, courtesy of @gcnmag.bsky.social, including @jennychambles.bsky.social's 'Q is for Garden' which is publishing in July. Full list here: gcn.ie/12-queer-boo... #booksky #queerreads #summerreads
Oh look it’s my book! On promotion! If you like queerness and gardens, give Q is for Garden a pre-order
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 7mo ago25% OFF on books coming soon! Only on the @waterstones website & app, 17-20th February. Pre-order your most wanted titles with code: FEB26 #WPreorder #booksky
Thank you so much @nicolawriting.bsky.social - it was a joy to review The Book of Bogs!
Nicola Chester@nicolawriting.bsky.social · 8mo ago‘The Book of Bogs contains fragile, furious, resilient ecosystems of writing, demanding the protection of a vulnerable environment we need more than we know.’ Wonderful review of a spell of a book I’m so proud to be in, by @jennychambles.bsky.social @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
‘Consider it a spell, to encircle the wild peat of your heart.’ Brontës and Boggarts: @jennychambles.bsky.social sinks into @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers’ (eds), ‘The Book of Bogs’ (@littletollerbooks.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/the-...
A bit of news from me: Q IS FOR GARDEN is out with MUP in July 2026! Please stay tuned for event updates…
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe are delighted to announce we are publishing @jennychambles.bsky.social's bold exploration of how queerness & nature entwine in July 2026. 'Q is for garden' blends memoir, history & cultural criticism, drawing on the histories of queer gardeners, botanists, artists & agriculturalists. #booksky
💥NEW EPISODE!💥 This month Tim is joined by film academic @jennychambles.bsky.social to discuss Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934). Available wherever you get your podcasts.
Currently reading Theory of Water. Looking forward to listening to this conversation, then re-reading, then re-listening. 🌊
David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · last yr.What would happen to our writing, our politics, our living if we thought of land as pedagogy, theory as something embodied & kinetic? Theory of Water is the touchstone book for me this year, a map for the future. Audio📻🌊: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
Lovelies, I’m not getting on with this app. It looks a wee bit too much like the formerly and deceased and I’ve lost my mojo for sharing, spouting, oo-er silliness and reframing good stuff. I can’t sort my algorithm and there’s… All This Going On Out Here. Want to help me get my mojo back?
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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