David Gillon

Alice Wong (@SFDirewolf) and Nicola Griffith (@Nicolaz) have been running monthly twitter chats on disability literature. Last night's was specifically on YA fiction, with guest authors Marieke Nijkamp (@Mariekeyn - This is Where it Ends, Before I Let Go, Unbroken (editor) and the forthcoming Oracle: Rising) and Brigit Young (@BrigitYoung - Worth A Thousand Words). YA's not my main focus, but it's the first of these chats I've remembered to set a reminder for and it was an interesting chat on the problems of writing YA criplit - mostly non-disabled writers and society, and expectations that are just plain wrong. Someone put it nicely as publishers prioritizing non-disabled voices speaking for us over our own voices. The overall conclusion was we're nowhere near where we should be, but it wasn't in any way a depressing chat, more one with a lot of energy for fixing it.

Alice Wong has now collated everything together on wakelet (which is new to me) and it can be read here.