Writers with disability in the Castlemaine region are welcome to join a free workshop with acclaimed writer and activist Arnold Zable later this month, as part of our Writeability Goes Regional program. In Get Writing, Arnold will help participants decide how to write their story and answer basic questions about writing, techniques and how to get going. […]
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Sarah Widdup was a Write-ability Fellow in 2014. She was host and guest speaker at the Write-ability Salon (Nothing About Us, Without Us) at The Wheeler Centre in December 2015. He was just going down the shops, for smokes or milk or something. Probably smokes, even though he was a baby in the scheme of
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My neighbour’s growling four-wheel drive reverses past our headboard. Thin walls and a driveway less than a metre from our bedroom negating any need for an alarm clock. Pavlovian instinct kicks in triggering my first curse of the morning. An unsteady hand extends from the covers. Sausage fingers stabbing at the screen turning off flight
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How do you define disability? What does it mean to you, and why? For a long time I mostly saw disability through the eyes of an able-bodied person with little experience of that world, until I realised it was broader than I imagined and I belonged in it. I had thought that disability would be
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Ashlee Bye was a Write-ability Fellow in 2015. She read this extract from ‘Out of the Shadows’ at the Write-ability Salon (Nothing About Us, Without Us) at The Wheeler Centre in December 2015. The line for the bar was ridiculous, but unsurprising; it was a Saturday night and this was one of the go-to nightspots
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Every fortnight, our Writeability Writers’ Group sessions give writers with disability the opportunity to meet and discuss their work. At December’s Writeability Salon, these talented emerging writers will share some of their stories. ‘Nothing about us, without us’ is the theme for this year’s Salon, which coincides with 2015’s International Day of People with Disability.
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Writers Victoria’s Write-ability program has been built around the importance of self-told stories, disability leadership and peer support — creating opportunities for even the quietest voices to be heard. Now in its third year, Write-ability has grown to include a regional focus with Geelong-based Harriet Gaffney as our first regional project officer. Over the next year,
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Five writers with disability will receive six hours of free mentoring with authors, assessors and industry experts through the third annual Write-ability Fellowships announced this week. Fellowships were awarded to writers working in a range of styles and genres, including creative fiction, memoir and non-fiction journalism. Emerging writer Naomi Fryers will work with outgoing Director
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In 2014, Arts Access Victoria and the University of Melbourne undertook a research project to investigate the creative case for inclusive arts practice as it relates to people with disability. The Beyond Access research project developed a number of videos designed to raise awareness of the amazing and diverse work produced by artists with disability.
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For the second year in a row, writers with disability will take over The Salon during the Emerging Writers’ Festival. This poignant and political event will showcase stories from six emerging writers: Jax Jacki Brown, Carly Findlay, Claire Barnier, David Maney, Nicki Bielinski and Daniel Kirby. Evolving from fortnightly Writeability Writers Group sessions for writers
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