An engaging three-day event you won't want to miss.
Disability as an Expansive Force in Writing
Kate Crane with Petra Lord and Addie Tsai
A Note from Kate Crane About a year ago, I joined a Discord server for people with debut books coming out in 2026 through traditional publishers. And I started following authors who followed the @2026debuts handle on Instagram. This led me to a video of a woman talking about managing a five-hundred-thousand-word book draft with a debilitating injury. My people! Disability of various flavors has both stymied and expanded my own writing practice over the past dozen years or so. It’s now central to my writing life, something so omnipresent I often forget about it. It’s also, I think, underdiscussed. So I reached out to Petra Lord, author of Queen of Faces—the woman in that IG video—and Addie Tsai, author of Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, and Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture. On a recent Thursday afternoon, we dug into disability as an unlikely cocreator in our writing lives.
A Note from Kate Crane
About a year ago, I joined a Discord server for people with debut books coming out in 2026 through traditional publishers. And I started following authors who followed the @2026debuts handle on Instagram. This led me to a video of a woman talking about managing a five-hundred-thousand-word book draft with a debilitating injury. My people! Disability of various flavors has both stymied and expanded my own writing practice over the past dozen years or so. It’s now central to my writing life, something so omnipresent I often forget about it. It’s also, I think, underdiscussed. So I reached out to Petra Lord, author of Queen of Faces—the woman in that IG video—and Addie Tsai, author of Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, and Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture. On a recent Thursday afternoon, we dug into disability as an unlikely cocreator in our writing lives.
The Big Conversation
Writing the Outdoors
Imagined Selves
Reading as a Form of Community Listening
The Lazy Writer’s Guide to World-Building
Know Thine Enemy
Recognizing the Tics and Tells of AI-Generated Content
Advice for Memoirists Who Fear Having Their Lives Judged by Readers
Too Much and Not Enough
Unlikely Cocreator
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