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Over the next two years we will focus on historical writers, then we will concentrate on contemporary writers. Through this approach, we aim to highlight a lineage of disabled writers which has long been overlooked in Australian literature.

Our Authors

Barcroft Boake

Boake’s poetry was celebrated for its exceptionally vivid sense-images rather than word-images, perhaps a tell-tale sign that he was keenly attuned to the sensory experience of being in the world as some Autistic people are.

Guy Boothby

Two characteristics in Boothby’s writing that might denote an Autistic style are the focus on sensory experiences; and Wittgensteinian language games in which every word may be used as a tool for play.

Dorothy Cottrell

‘The day on which I burned the last overpriced crutch and brace and sat down marked the real beginning of my recovery. Not of recovery from my disability – that has become neither better nor worse than it was the day the first specialist reviewed my case – but of recovery as an individual, as the builder of a life.’

Patricia Carlon

As communicating with the hearing world is difficult, deaf writers often turn inwards, contemplating their rich interior lives. Rather than being ‘trapped’ … Carlon’s deafness was immensely generative.

Judith Wright

Deafness was Wright’s ‘dark source’, as she writes in her poem ‘Silence’. It was a condition which occasionally hindered her, but which also enabled her creativity and writing.

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