Ten Questions for torrin a. greathouse
“I’d love to be the kind of writer who sits down at my desk at a specific and predictable time...and write, but I’ve never been that writer. —torrin a greathouse, author of DEED.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
An introduction to three new anthologies, including Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection.
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Ghosted: How an Agent Helped Me Write About My Disability—Then Disappeared
Rejection of your work can be crushing, especially when the subject of your writing is personal. A writing teacher and book coach recounts her experience being guided and then stood up by an agent who expressed interest in her book.
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Ten Questions for Jennifer Lunden
“You are going to read a book that will inspire you to write a book.” —Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
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Ten Questions for John Lee Clark
“Isn’t poetry supposed to be a spiritual practice?” —John Lee Clark, author of How to Communicate
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Vision Loss and the Ekphrastic Novelist: Revising My Identity as a Writer
Faced with two separate causes of potential vision loss, an author reconsiders her identify as a “visual writer,” which has been integral to her mode of creating.
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2022 Disability Futures Fellowship Recipients Announced
Seven poets and writers are among the class of 2022 Disability Futures fellows.
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Craft Capsule: Writing With Limitations
The author of Martha Moody finds new strategies to sustain her creative life after suffering a head injury.
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Grants Celebrate Disability Culture
The Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have launched a fellowship program that honors disabled writers and artists in a variety of disciplines with grants of $50,000 each.
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