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Join award-winning multidisciplinary artist Lisette Auton, bestselling author Penny Batchelor and CRIPtic Arts Director Jamie Hale as they open the Access to Literature symposium. Drawing on their experiences as disabled writers, creatives and activists, they will discuss what’s next for the literature sector, who gets to tell the stories they want to tell, and why it is critically important that sustained opportunities are opened up for disabled writers, readers and audiences.
The conversation will draw on their experiences as disabled writers, creatives and activists for change in the literature and publishing sectors, including Lisette’s role in the recently published Reflecting Disability report into representation of disabled people in UK children’s books and Penny’s co-founding of the ACDI Literary Prize for disabled and chronically ill authors who include positive disability representation in their novels and #KeepFestivalsHybrid campaign.
Hosted by Jamie Hale, artistic director of CRIPtic Arts, co-lead on Access to Literature and founder of the Disabled Poets Prize, the conversation will explore what’s next for the literature and publishing sectors, who gets to tell the stories they want to tell and why it is critically important that sustained opportunities are opened up for disabled writers, readers and audiences.
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BSL interpreted by Lynne Bateman and Jemima Hoadley.
Reading materials provided in advance, email hello@londonwriterscentre.org.uk if required.
About Access to Literature
Access to Literature is run by CRIPtic Arts and London Writers Centre. We are working with disabled trainers and partners New Writing South, the National Centre for Writing, Apples & Snakes and the Poetry Translation Centre to co-create a toolkit for change so disabled writers don’t have to fight for a space at the table. We’ll be sharing everything we learn through free videos and resources and offering a wide range of disabled-led training for the literature sector, ensuring that change to improve access can be truly embedded in every organisation’s practice.
Access to Literature is supported through public funding by Arts Council England.