A restful virtual reading series starring disabled poets ◽️Founder @kyjamieson ◽️ Tweets @hannah_siden ◽️ Here for disability justice, joy, & community
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30 Mar 2022
Hi friendly people, if you have a tweet that lies at the intersection of poetry and disability feel free to tag Rest Days for a RT. Let’s amplify this community. 📣
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Has anyone noticed current themed calls for poetry on illness or disability?
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28 Mar 2023
Calling all sick/disabled writers, artists, & poets - we are accepting submissions until April 20th! Yes, we pay all contributors! More info at: sickmagazine.co.uk/
#chronicillness #disability #disabledwriters
ALT WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: Personal essays, creative and experimental nonfiction, lyric essays / Poetry / Short fiction / Reported features / Op-eds / Interviews with writers, artists, creatives, activists / Visual art of any medium
ALT PAYMENT Writers will be paid 11 pence per word; poets & artists will receive £50 for selected work. SICK aims to increase these rates as the magazine continues to grow, and we have proudly done so twice since launching in 2019. Contributors are paid upon completion or acceptance of work.
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19 Feb 2023
Today’s the day! Submissions are now open for Sunder issue 1 - GATHER.
Remember, we accept poetry in whatever form you make it — want to scan and send an empty chip packet with some words on it? We can’t wait to see it.
More info here: sunderjournal.com/submit
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8 Feb 2023
Can anyone think of a paragraph or so from someone with an illness about why they write about their experience of illness? Drawing a blank! 🫠
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10 Feb 2023
Y’all know of any poetry venues still offering VIRTUAL events? (open mics, slams, workshops, co-writing spaces, etc.)
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3 Feb 2023
We're looking for facilitators for our 2023 Writers Salons. Are you a deaf or disabled writer with a book coming out this year? If so we want to hear from you! DM us or contact team@cripticarts.org for more info.
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22 Jan 2023
💫poets! i'm interested in making a (non-exhaustive, ever-growing) list of autistic Black poets for personal study. can y'all put me on? who comes to mind?
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22 Jan 2023
This flopped on my personal, so I’ll ask here. I want to submit my gastroparesis themed chapbook to a contest, but want another set of eyes on it first. It’s about 25pgs. Would be willing to read/offer critiques on your work in exchange!
#WritingCommunity
#AmWritingCNF
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19 Jan 2023
Join us on Thursday January 26, 2023 at 7pm EST via ZOOM for our Accessibility in Literary Arts webinar with Kyla Jamieson and Olivia Spring!
Register here: bit.ly/3GTfy3f
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pain really fucks with me, threatens to steal wonder & sense of humor. been a rough few days of pain that’s cruelly worse when i try to sleep/rest. been thinking about my relationship to pain over time. curious about any poems, or work across genre, that folks recommend on pain
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30 Dec 2022
#FF It’s National Resolution Planning Day! To celebrate, and give some ❤️ and a follow to these members of the lit community beginning with the letter “R”:
@ReservoirRoad
@RestDays3
@riddlebirdmag
@RiotThroat
@River_Heron
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12 Dec 2022
In this fantastic #PlathFest event, poets @pollyrowena @HodgsonWrites & @betty_poet read from their prize-winning collections, exploring creativity, chronic illness, and the disabled body.
Watch it now, along w 5 other events, by buying a Digital Ticket: ticketsource.co.uk/plathfest…
ALT Graphic with the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival logo and the text: Writing and the (Dis)Abled Body Featuring poets Polly Atkin, Hannah Hodgson and Betty Doyle. Hosted by Katie Hale. 21 October 2022.
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8 Dec 2022
So excited to be co-running an @arvonfoundation course for D/deaf and/or disabled poets with @mailbykite - registration is open and course runs March 8th - April 5th 2023
arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
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13 Jun 2022
I wish more poetry books were accessible in ebook. I asked to pay for an ecopy of a disability poetry book this year from the publisher, and the publisher was like 🥰no🥰. Some indie publishers don't make room for accessibility. Big ones do because they want my disabled dollars.
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17 Oct 2022
Hey guys, it’s Hollie popping on to remind y’all we’re open for Issue 9 submissions. Send us your
🌟art/photography
🌟short/flash fiction, non-fiction/memoir
🌟poetry
🌟translated work
🌟script or novel extracts
🌟reviews: book/tv/film
wishbonewords.com/submit-con… RT 💓
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17 Oct 2022
I’m happy for this blindness for it’s helped me see much more I focus on life’s beauty now more than I did before #TheBlindPoet
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23 Sep 2022
On Sun 23 Oct, @HodgsonWrites & @pollyrowena lead a digital workshop for writers who identify as disabled. We will explore the body and mind through the lens of disability poetics, looking at ways to write about living with illness and death.
ticketsource.co.uk/plathfest… #PlathFest
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