The nation's largest association of writing programs, responding to criticism from writers with disabilities, has made a number of changes for its annual meeting next week. Critics acknowledge ...

In her candid memoir, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India (2023), K. Vaishali shares her encounters with a world that almost always misunderstands disabilities and negates the lived ...

A negative voice peppered James Harrison’s thoughts when, last summer, he stood to read aloud the work he had done in a local creative writing workshop. The voice told him, “I can’t do this. This is ...

Working in media has always been an uphill battle for disabled writers, but an ever-shrinking industry gives “hard” a whole new meaning. Over the past decade, I thought I had finally figured out how ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Writing Disability is an event at the Emerging Writers Festival that features writers and activists who ...

Vol. 39, No. 1, Special Series: Writing and Writing Difficulties: Part One of Two (FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 17-30 (14 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. This longitudinal study was conducted to ...

In a chilly November afternoon in 2008, I tapped my white cane down Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California and entered Pegasus Books. At that time, I had only been blind for a year, and often found a ...

Writing, drawing, and advocating for those with disabilities are a few things that Adrianna Procida is passionate about. After years of being part of Girl Scouts, the time came for Procida to put ...