Crip Stories: An Anthology of Disabled Writers
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The word crip was once used to discriminate. Today, it is reclaimed and celebrated.Crip Stories is a gathering of vibrant and diverse experiences from disabled people. Bringing together memoir, essays and poetry, these writers explore creativity, care, rage and refusal. Together, they offer a celebration of disability pride and community.
Michelle Cahill will introduce the event with one of the anthology editors, Laura Pettenuzzo, who is also a disability advocate and prize winning writer. There will be readings by the Tasmanian writers from the book: Priya Gore Johnson, Sam Hamad, Joey Harper, and Rosie Putland.
Michelle Cahill is a prize-winning Australian novelist and poet. She was the Red Room Poetry Fellow in 2020. Her most recent book Daisy & Woolf was longlisted in the Voss Literary Prize and ALS Gold Medal. Her short fictions Letter to Pessoa won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for New Writing and will be published in India this year. She was a Hedberg Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tasmania.
Laura Pettenuzzo (she/her) is a disabled writer, speaker and accessible communications professional living on Wurundjeri land. Her work explores disability pride, systemic and internalised ableism as well as the power of self-acceptance. Her reviews, memoir and opinion pieces have been published in places such as Griffith Review, Archer Magazine, Meanjin and The Age.
Join these incredible authors at the Afterword Cafe.
Date
Thursday 18 June 2026 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM (UTC+10)Location
Fullers Bookshop
131 Collins St, Hobart TAS 7000
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