This special issue of TEXT aims to highlight the myriad ways in which disability engenders creative writing. We invite papers that explore the influence of impairment and disablement on writing techniques or topics. We are particularly, but by no means exclusively, interested in how these are entangled with other personal characteristics such as race, gender, age, and class.
Potential topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Analysis of a particular disabled author
- How impairment shapes creative writing
- How disabled authors influence each other’s writing
- Learning and unlearning writing conventions
- Translating individual experience for a diverse audience
- Stories told and stories concealed
- Crip style, genre, etc
- Disability politics and poetics
Editors: Associate Professor Jessica White and Dr Amanda Tink
Abstracts are due by 1 June.
Read the full details and submission guidelines via the TEXT website.