If you’re here because of my recent interview for theMSGuide.com, hello and welcome. I’m a novelist—this website and blog is mostly about my life and work; MS is often peripheral to my interests. If you’d rather just focus on MS then here’s a short resume of me, my interests in and thoughts on MS and disability.
Read moreFor Disability Pride Month a post about what disabled do—or, rather, about one crip’s fabulous life. Flaunt it, baby!
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This is the essay version of the Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture I gave last year at Ohio State University. It was first…
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In Disability Arts Online I discuss So Lucky and all things #CripLit.
Read moreA new interview with me about So Lucky now up at A&U magazine.
Read morePart of a critic’s job is to offer an expert, informed opinion of art. Keyword: informed. We need disabled critics to review disabled art.
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Read moreToday I have an Op-Ed in the New York Times about the rewriting the familiar disability script and changing the world.
Read moreI resist the idea that nothing can change and that every system is broken. I resist the idea that representation is enough when what we really want is power.
An interview with Alice Wong, editor of Resistance & Hope
Read moreThe thirteenth #CripLit chat, co-hosted by novelist Nicola Griffith and Alice Wong, is timed to celebrate the publication of Resistance and Hope, an anthology of essays by disabled people: Sunday 28 October, 4pm Pacific.
Read moreOne weird trick for booksellers to increase revenues by 25%: make your store, website, and social media accessible. Here are some tips and resources.
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Seattle Arts & Lectures, in concert with the Seattle Public Library, has once again put together a book-related bingo card. In terms of disability, it’s problematic.
Read moreThe 12th #CripLit Twitter chat, on new nonfiction by disabled writers, will be guest hosted by Naomi Ortiz (@thinkfreestyle) on Sunday 6/10, 7 pm Eastern.
Read moreJoin us Saturday May 19, 7 pm Eastern/4 pm Pacific for a special Twitter chat with Nicola Griffith and Anne Finger who will be talking about their new novels So Lucky and A Woman, In Bed, both published the same day (Tues 5/15)! Come ask questions or just listen in!
Read moreOut yesterday, an interview I did with Marian Ryan for Catapult in which I chat about the importance of seeing characters like ourselves in fiction.
Read moreFor our tenth #Criplit chat for disabled writers we’ve invited representatives from three summer writing workshops to come and chat about what they’re doing to make their writing programmes accessible.
Read moreThe Fries Test for fiction: Does a work have more than one disabled character. Do those character have their own narrative purpose? Are they not killed or cured?
Read moreHoly shit! I have a book coming out in seven months! My new novel So Lucky will be published on May 15, 2018, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux .
Read moreIn a Curve magazine article, I talk about disabled visibility in the queer community.
Read moreThe Disability Literature Consortium (DLC) is a group of disability journals who have come together to provide a booth at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference to showcase the work of disabled writers. They are raising funds on Generosity.
Read moreYou are invited to the ninth #CripLit Twitter chat co-hosted by novelist Nicola Griffith and Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project®. We want to talk about the experience of writing about and from being disabled. Please join us on 6 August, 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern
Read moreAfter I have fulfilled my immediate contractual obligations, I will no longer support in any way any writing-related programme or organisation that does not have a public commitment to and specific timetable for becoming accessible.
Read moreTo celebrate a special issue of The Deaf Poets Society, “Crips in Space,” we’ll hold a #CripLit Twitter chat on Thursday 11 May 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern.
Read moreThe Storify of Sunday’s #CripLit chat on YA/KidLit is up. That means we now have seven chats archived.
Read moreOn Sunday April 9, 7pm Eastern we’ll host the seventh #CripLit chat, in which disabled writers and editors and other interested parties get together to talk about issues relating to disability and literature. Today’s chat centres on YA/KidLit.
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