I have had work published in a range of forms, publications and styles – from my exploration of disability arts for the Wellcome Collection titled Art, Activism and Access to my disability journalism for the Guardian. To commission work, please contact me.
August 2021 Write Across London with Daljit Nagra (discussion and collaborative poem)
April 2021 Bedtime Stories for the End of the World – Knights of the Round Table (podcast and poetry (search “Jamie Hale”)
Mar 2021 Zoeglossia – bird song
Feb 2021 Yale-UCL Poetry Prize – Fibrotic
Jan 2021 Verve Press – Shield
Nov 2020 Novara Media (“Shielders have been abandoned during lockdown. It can’t happen again”)
Nov 2020 Wellcome article (“The Freedom to Provoke”)
Sept 2020 Wellcome article (“Giving Shape to Sound”)
Sept 2020 Inspirations: Jamie Hale and Hannah Gadsby
Aug 2020 Wellcome article (“Acting, Disableism and Inclusive Theatre”)
May 2020 Wellcome article (“Talent, Tech, and Visual Art”)
May 2020 BBC Ouch (“Meet the Vulnerables: Jamie Hale”)
Apr 2020 Wellcome article (“Disabled musicians and the fight to perform”)
Apr 2020 Graeae (“When We Got Sick” – written by Jamie Hale, performed by Simon Statin, directed by Nickie Miles-Wildin, introduced by Jack Thorne)
Apr 2020 Spread the Word (“Writers At Home”)
Edition 75 Magma – Resistencía (“‘Furias Para Danzar’, Gioconda Belli, trans. Jamie Hale”)
Mar 2020 Wellcome article (“The politics and power of audio-description”)
Mar 2020 Guardian article (“As coronavirus hits, Britain’s ‘vulnerable’ are terrified to see our rights removed”
Mar 2020 Red Pepper article (“The politics of COVID-19: government contempt for disabled people”)
Mar 2020 I news interview (“We’re making masks out of t-shirts”)
Jan 2020 Wellcome Collection essay (“How hospital care fails disabled bodies”)
Edition 92 The Rialto (poetry) (“Faggot”)
Dec 2019 Disability News Service Interview (“Lewisham commission hopes to put disabled people at heart of decision-making”)
Dec 2019 Lewisham Council Interview (“Interview with Jamie Hale, Chair of the new Lewisham Disabled Peoples’ Commission”)
Nov 2019 Guardian opinion article on NHS underfunding (“I’m stuck in a hospital that’s starved of funds – let’s not forget the NHS when we vote”)
Oct 2019 The Reviews Hub review (” Hale’s response to that sort of attitude is clear from their clothing – the T-Shirt slogan “Piss on Pity” summing up their defiant take on life.”)
June 2019 The Stage Interview (“My show went from coming to terms with dying to coming to terms with living”)
May 2019 Disability Arts Online Interview (“Previous winner, Jamie Hale on the London Writers Awards, which are open for submission”)
May 2019 Spread the Word Interview (“London Writers’ Awards”)
Aug 2018 Wellcome Collection article on reliance on social care, (“Everybody desires a degree of independence”)
July-Sept 2018 Articles for Muscular Dystrophy UK on direct payments and why young disabled people should employ their own carers.
June 2018 Guardian opinion article on disabled opposition to assisted suicide (“We’re told we are a burden. No wonder disabled people fear assisted suicide”)
April 2018 Guardian Opinion article on public transport (“Britain’s public transport system is great, if you’re not disabled”)
April 2018 Canary interview on public transport (“A series of tweets shows what a nightmare public transport is for disabled people”)
March 2018 Unite Magazine (“Introduction to social care”)
Dec 2017 Poetry Quarterly (“Icarus”)
July 2017 Guardian Opinion article on disabled opposition to assisted suicide (“We are told we are a burden. Legalising assisted suicide would further devalue our lives”)