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The Association of Illustrators (AOI) is hosting “a friendly, honest conversation” about working with disabled illustrators next month. Aimed at both commissioners and illustrators, the event takes place on 6th October from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. It is free and hosted online via the AOI website. It will celebrate the launch of a new resource called “Working with Disabled Illustrators” and will feature illustrators Megan Rhiannon (pictured), Hayley Wall and agent James Catchpole in conversation with Jhinuk Sarkar. The AOI explained: “We will consider why disability in illustration has so little visibility, and how this is changing. As well as practical considera- tions such as accommodations that can be made when commissioning disabled illustrators, we will look at how the recognition of a disability can influence illustrators’ commissions. With practical examples and a spotlight on creative projects, this friendly, honest conversation is an important event for commissioners and illustrators alike.”
Access to Literature seeks to spotlight barriers to access for disabled writers
Disability arts hub CRIPtic Arts and writer development charity Spread the Word are collaborating on research to understand the literature sector’s barriers to access for d/Deaf and disabled writers, poets and audiences. Called Access to Literature, the research seeks to improve access
to in-person and online literature opportunities. Through collecting responses via surveys and consulting focus groups, it will build a data and evidence base to support change and the opening up of opportu- nities for d/Deaf and disabled writers and audiences. Two focus groups took place in September, facilitated by poet
Jamie Hale and playwright Vici Wreford-Sinnott. One was for d/Deaf and disabled writers, and the other was for organisations such as literature festivals, writer and reader development groups, and live literature producers. The Access to Literature surveys and focus group research will be compiled into a report and online best practice guidance will be made available online via the Spread the Word and CRIPtic Arts websites. Three training sessions for creative practitioners, funded and
non-funded literature organisations will take place in October. The research is funded by Arts Council England. Anyone who is interested in the training sessions and the area of work can email
hello@spreadtheword.org.uk. Spread the Word and CRIPtic Arts have previously collaborated on two online retreats for d/Deaf and disabled writers in the past year and a half, and are hosting free, online bimonthly writers salons for d/Deaf and disabled writers.
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ubmissions are now open for the 2021 Barbellion Prize, launched last year for the
furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing. The prize is awarded annually
to an author whose work has best represented the experience of chronic illness and/or disability. The awarded work can be of any
genre in fiction, memoir, biography, poetry or critical non-fiction from around the world, whether it is in English, in translation, traditionally published or self-published. It is named in tribute to English
diarist W N P Barbellion, who wrote eloquently on his life with multiple sclerosis before his death in 1919. Self-published author Jake Goldsmith, who suffers with cystic fibrosis and other conditions, decided to found the competition last year while writing his own memoir.
In February, the inaugural award
was won by artist and author Riva Lehrer for Golem Girl: A Memoir (Virago). Lehrer (pictured) took home £1,000, a custom-made crystal glass Barbellion Prize trophy and certifi- cate, as well as a copy of Barbellion’s The Journal of a Disappointed Man. Submissions for the prize are
now open, and close on 31st October 2021. For more information, visit
thebarbellionprize.com.
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