The Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering includes the following 13 book reviews:
- Shahd Alshammari, Confetti and Ashes: Reflections on Wellness
- Kirsten T. Behling, Eileen H. Bellemore, Lisa B. Bibeau, Andrew S. Cioffi, and Bridget A. McNamee (eds.), Disability Services in Higher Education: An Insider’s Guide
- Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Bad Weather Mammals
- Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Erik Parens (Eds.), The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability
- Annie Carl (ed.), Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors
- Ishaa Vinod Chopra, Finding Order in Disorder
- Amber E. George (ed.), Disability and the Superhero: Essays on Ableism and Representation in Comic Media
- Judith Heumann, with Kristen Joiner, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- Petra Kuppers, Diver Beneath the Street
- Meg Eden Kuyatt, The Girl in the Walls
- Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice
- Ricky Ray, The Soul We Share
- Michael A. Rembis, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum
As Wordgathering has grown, the number of requests that we receive for book reviews has likewise grown. Writers who would like to review books for or have books reviewed by Wordgathering should send queries to wordgathering@syr.edu. Please refer to our Submission Guidelines for more information.
If you would like to become a potentially “frequent flyer” book reviewer for Wordgathering, thereby joining our (of course, accessible) reviewers’ “pool,” please reach out to us at wordgathering@syr.edu with a short summary of your areas of interest and expertise, a short statement of how you understand yourself and your writing to be in alignment with the journal’s goals, and a short bio, and we will be in touch with you as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for your interest and commitment.