R/evolution in disability lit is accelerating
There are now two serious prizes for disability literature, and the pace of change is accelerating.
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My MS resume
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 moreThings disabled people do
For Disability Pride Month a post about what disabled do—or, rather, about one crip’s fabulous life. Flaunt it, baby!
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Neither Dying Nor Being Cured
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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New Interview up at Disability Arts Online
In Disability Arts Online I discuss So Lucky and all things #CripLit.
Read moreI am not anyone’s metaphor
A new interview with me about So Lucky now up at A&U magazine.
Read moreThe gift of a negative review
Part 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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#CripLit: Fabulous New YA and MG Fiction, Sunday 12/09, 1pm Pacific
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Read moreRewriting the Old Disability Script
Today I have an Op-Ed in the New York Times about the rewriting the familiar disability script and changing the world.
Read moreResistance & Hope: an interview with Alice Wong
I 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 more#CripLit chat Sunday 10/28: Resistance and Hope
The 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 moreBooksellers, this one weird trick could increase your bottom line by 25%!
One 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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Book Bingo 2018 and ableism
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 more#CripLit chat Sun 6/10: New Nonfiction by Disabled Writers
The 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 more#CripLit chat Sat 5/19: New Fiction by Disabled Writers
Join 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 moreA piece in Catapult about representation
Out 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 more8/6 #CripLit Twitter chat—writing workshop accessibility
For 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 disabled characters in fiction
The 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 moreNew novel, So Lucky, out 15 May 2018
Holy 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 moreDisability visibility in the queer community
In a Curve magazine article, I talk about disabled visibility in the queer community.
Read moreDisability Literature Consortium
The 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 more8/6 #CripLit Twitter Chat: Writing Disability
You 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 moreAn open letter to all writing programmes, workshops, and retreats
After 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 moreSpecial #CripLit: “Crips in Space” Thursday May 11
To 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 moreStorify of Sunday’s #CripLit chat on YA/KidLit
The Storify of Sunday’s #CripLit chat on YA/KidLit is up. That means we now have seven chats archived.
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