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So excited to see a heap of disabled writers’ books due to come out. We need more representation - and we’re getting it. These books aren’t just for other disabked people to read - they’re for everybody.
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. @kyliemaslen’s Show Me Where it Hurts is out in September through @text_publishing https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/show-me-where-it-hurts-living-with-invisible-illness
. @Imani_Barbarin has signed to an agent to work on a memoir https://twitter.com/imani_barbarin/status/1281623380517695489?s=21 https://twitter.com/imani_barbarin/status/1281623380517695489
. @SFdirewolf - @DisVisibility - has just released Disability Visibility through @PenguinBooksAus https://www.penguin.com.au/books/disability-visibility-9781984899422
Rebekah Taussig is releasing Sitting Pretty through @HarperCollins next month! https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062936790/sitting-pretty/
. @Keah_Maria released The Pretty One last year through @SimonSchusterAU. https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Pretty-One/Keah-Brown/9781982100544
. @kaymariek’s Please Don’t Hug Me is out now through @text_publishing - and is @jouljet and my #DisabilityReads book this month https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/please-don-t-hug-me
A journalist I admire a lot - @FrancesRyanPhD - released Crippled
Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People https://www.booktopia.com.au/crippled-frances-ryan/book/9781786637888.html
Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People https://www.booktopia.com.au/crippled-frances-ryan/book/9781786637888.html
Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal is out through Allen ans Unwin, it’s by @AnnaWhateley https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/childrens/Peta-Lyres-Rating-Normal-Anna-Whateley-9781760525309
Able by @DylanAlcott is out now - through @HarperCollinsAU https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780733339875/able-gold-medals-grand-slams-and-smashing-glass-ceilings/
Hearing Maud by @ladyredjess has just been shortlisted for the National Biography Award. It’s out now through @uwapublishing https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/jessica-white
The Disabled Voices Antholgy by SB Smith is out now https://www.booktopia.com.au/disabled-voices-anthology-sb-smith/book/9781775301950.html
. @HabenGirma’s memoir is out through @HachetteAus in October in Australia (and in US and UK now) https://www.hachette.com.au/haben-girma/haben-the-deafblind-woman-who-conquered-harvard-law
. @Tara_Moss has written a multitude of fiction and non fixtion books for the last 15 or so years - so accomplished https://taramoss.com/books/
. @judithheumann has written Being Heumann
An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist https://www.booktopia.com.au/being-heumann-judith-heumann/book/9780807019290.html
An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist https://www.booktopia.com.au/being-heumann-judith-heumann/book/9780807019290.html
Growing Up Disabled in Australia is out with @BlackIncBooks Feb 2021 - feat @bluntshovels @Jordonsteele @kz_barton @witchinguptales @JessHealyWalton @toddocracy @carlyjaywriter @fi_murphy_ @Olivia_A_Muscat @BGayleKennedy @isis_holtT35 and more https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/growing-disabled-australia
Aboriginal and disabled writer @BGayleKennedy has written many books - fiction and graphic novels https://www.booktopia.com.au/search.ep?author=Gayle%20Kennedy
Andy Jackson is a marvelous poet - he’s written a few books and edited poetry journals https://amongtheregulars.com/525-2/
Sarah Madden - @IrrefutableYou - wrote Blue in the Red House - which is part memoir, part speculative fiction https://www.booktopia.com.au/blue-in-the-red-house-sarah-madden/book/9780648174233.html
. @kurtfearnley wrote a memoir a few years back - sporty of course, but great disability pride messages https://www.booktopia.com.au/pushing-the-limits-kurt-fearnley/book/9780143799924.html
. @RobertHoge wrote Ugly and Ugly Junior
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538309/ugly-by-robert-hoge/
https://www.hachette.com.au/robert-hoge/ugly-younger-readers-the-bestselling-australian-story-now-published-internationally
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538309/ugly-by-robert-hoge/
https://www.hachette.com.au/robert-hoge/ugly-younger-readers-the-bestselling-australian-story-now-published-internationally
. @ninagcomedian wrote Stutterer Intereupted - not sure if it’s available in Australia https://www.ninagcomedian.com/the-book
Jessica Smith wrote a kid’s book - Little Miss Jessica goes to school http://www.jessicasmith.com.au/little-miss-jessica-goes-to-school
. @TheSineadBurke has a kid’s book coming out later this year! It’s called Break the Mould: How to Take Your Place in the World and is our through @HachetteAus https://www.hachette.com.au/sinead-burke-natalie-byrne/break-the-mould-how-to-take-your-place-in-the-world
Loretta Smith wrote A Spanner in the Works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia s first all-girl garage - it’s out through @HachetteAus https://www.hachette.com.au/loretta-smith/a-spanner-in-the-works-the-extraordinary-story-of-alice-anderson-and-australia-s-first-all-girl-garage
The wonderful radio presenter, and my friend @Jacinta_Parsons is also releasing a book soon! Yay yay!
Deaf artist Asphyxia has a new book our later this year - it’s called Future Girl, and has written and illustrate a number of other books for young readers https://www.allenandunwin.com/authors/a/asphyxia
My friend and mentor @JRJPartridge from @FaceEqualityInt and @FaceEquality has a new memoir out called Standing Out for Face Equality - my copy just arrived! https://jamespartridge.wordpress.com .
. @ariel_henley9’s A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome is out in the second half of 2021! https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374314095
. @AmandaLeduc has written Disfigured
On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space - out now https://www.booktopia.com.au/disfigured-amanda-leduc/book/9781552453957.html
On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space - out now https://www.booktopia.com.au/disfigured-amanda-leduc/book/9781552453957.html
Have you got any more suggestions? Add them to the list plese! Links and Twitter handles please!
Also - there are so many #OwnVoices books by disabled people, about disability and also other topics. So many publishers are committed to publishing disabked writers. So there really shouldn’t be an excuse for non disabled writers to take up space writing about disability.
