I have schizophrenia of the paranoid variety. I write about it quite a lot, both directly from my experience and not. The title story of my second short story collection was called ‘Walking’. It was about me walking out of the psych ward at The Alfred hospital going to my new accommodation at a boarding […]
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You have published poems and short stories in several literary journals and magazines. Now, having published a novel, is there one form of writing you prefer? I am passionate about all those forms, but for me writing a longer work of fiction was a rewarding challenge. I have often struggled to finish things; to focus
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You have published poems and short stories in several literary journals and magazines. Now, having published a novel, is there one form of writing you prefer? I am passionate about all those forms, but for me writing a longer work of fiction was a rewarding challenge. I have often struggled to finish things; to focus
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To help celebrate International Day of People With Disability, Writeability is proud to publish 2018 Writeability Fellow Anthony Riddell’s “speculative non-fiction” work Days of love and E.F.T.P.O.S. A prolific writer, Anthony’s work is some of the most wildly energetic, seemingly nonsensical writing you will ever read. As former Writeability Project Coordinator Harriet Gaffney said when assessing Anthony’s fellowship
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Things I fear: Being buried alive The awful, breathless struggle of drowning Losing the ones I love Being late That I will lose my job That the planet will die due to climate change That I am unlovable That my anxiety will win I thought I was broken; that there was something wrong with me.
Ahead of her Disability Binaries in Writing workshop, presented as part of the Writeability program, Micheline Lee spoke to Katy Hocking about overcoming fears and biases – both internal and external. Your debut novel ‘The Healing Party’ came out in 2016. Has your writing process changed since then? Yes. ‘The Healing Party’ was my first attempt at creative
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Ahead of her Disability Binaries in Writing workshop, presented as part of the Writeability program, Micheline Lee spoke to Katy Hocking about overcoming fears and biases – both internal and external. Your debut novel ‘The Healing Party’ came out in 2016. Has your writing process changed since then? Yes. ‘The Healing Party’ was my first attempt at
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Jax Jacki Brown has been at the forefront of increasing the prominence of writers with disability in publishing. Ahead of our Own Voices: Why Writing Matters forum in Wodonga, she talks about change, the importance of stories, and her involvement in WV’s new Publishability program. You presented the writing workshop at the first Own Voices:
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Six writers have been named as the winners of this year’s Dulcie Stone Writing Awards at a recent ceremony at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. The awards for writers with intellectual disability are presented by VALiD and Writers Victoria, and in their second year attracted more than sixty written and illustrated stories on the theme ‘Community –
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For six years Write-ability, in partnership with the Grace Marion Wilson Trust, has supported writers with disability through the Write-ability Fellowship program, giving five writers the opportunity to receive one-on-one support for their writing project through tailored professional development such as manuscript assessments, mentoring and curated programs of craft workshops. This year’s judges noted that it was extremely difficult to make
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