DISABILITY LITERATURE CONSORTIUM BOOKS AT AWP

When the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference (better known as AWP) opens on March 30, it will have something new in its vendors' section. A booth dedicated to disability literature. The booth, known as the Dis Lit Consortium, is the brain-child of Sean Mahoney, a writer with MS who was disappointed at attending last years conference in finding out just how difficult disability literature was to come by.

The consortium members are all small literary journals of disability: Breath and Shadow, Kaleidoscope, Pentimento, The Intima, and, naturally, Wordgathering. One of the purposes of the Dis Lit Consortium booth will be to provide information about the various journals including the type of work they use and how to submit to them. The larger purpose, however, is to make available the published books of writers with disabilities – particularly those that come from small presses not represented at the conference.

The response by authors to our invitation to send in their books has been impressive, and, in order to give potential readers a foretaste of what they can expect to find, Wordgathering is publishing the entire list to date of books available. Links are provided for those books that have been reviewed in this journal.

Poetry

Jennifer Bartlett, Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography
Sheila Black, House of Bone
      Wren Kroy
Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto, Waveform
Jim Ferris, The Hospital Poems
     The Facts of Life
     Slouching Towards Guantanamo
Lisa, Gill, Caput Nili
Ona Gritz, Geode
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, hook
Therese Halscheid, Frozen Latitudes
Paul Hostovsky, Dear Truth
     A Little in Love A Lot
     Naming Names
     The Bad Guys
     Selected Poems
Anne Kaier, In Fire
Paul Kahn, Landscapes: The Poetry of Paul Kahn
Marie Kane, Survivors in the Garden
Des Kenny, My Sense of Blind
      Past Tense
Jill Khoury, Borrowed Bodies
Ed Krizek, What Lies Ahead
Laurie Clements Lambeth, Veil and Burn
Karen Lie-Nielsen, Handbuzz and Other Poems
Cali Linfor, The Book of Ugly Things
MaryAnn Miller, Locus Mentor
Kobus Moolman, A Book of Rooms
      Left Over
     Light After
Adam Pottle, Beautiful Mutants
Daniel Simpson, School for the Blind
David Simpson, The Way Love Comes to Me
Hal Sirowitz, Stray Cat Blues
Jillian Weise,The Amputees Guide to Sex
Liz Whiteacre, Hit the Ground
Kathi Wolfe, The Uppity Blind Girl Poems
      Helen Keller Takes the Stage

Fiction
Catherine Edmunds, Bacchus Wynd
Donna W. Hill, The Heart of Applebutter Hill, (YA)
Suzanne Kamata, Gadget Girl (YA)
Ed Krizek, The Colors of the Mind
     Afterlife and Other Stories
Erika Madden, Cries from the Fifth Floor
Adam Pottle, Mantis Dreams
David Rawson, Fuckhead
Kristin Ringman, Makara
Robert Rudney, Lovers Lame
Lizz Schumer, Buffalo Steel
Rachel Simon, The Story of a Beautiful Girl
Michael Uniacke, The Quest for Edith Acres
Jillian Weise, The Colony
Avra Wing, After Isaac (YA)
Kristin Witucki, The Translator

Memoir and Personal Essay
John Lee Clark,Where I Stand
Eileen Cronin, Mermaid
Anne Kaier, Home with Henry
Raymond Luczak, Silence is a Four Letter Word
Harilyn Rousso, Don't Call Me Inspirational
Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus With My Sister
Michael Uniacke, Deafness Down
      Deafness Gain

Disability Studies
Kathryn Allan and Djibril Al-Ayad, Accessing the Future
David Bolt, Elizabeth Donaldson and Julia Miele Rhodas The Madwoman and the Blindman
Jeffrey Brune and Daniel Wilson, Disability and Passing
Jay Dolmage, Disability Rhetoric
Patricia Dunn, Disabled Characters
Petra Kuppers, Pearl Stitch
Alex Lubet, Music,Disability and Society

Literary Anthologies and Mixed Genre
Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black and Michael Northen Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Rebecca Chamaa, Pills, Poetry and Prose
John Lee Clark, Deaf Lit Extravaganza
Nicola Griffith, And Now We are Going to Have a Party
Inglis House Poetry Workshop, Quasimodo's Eyes
Raymond Luczak, QDA: Queer Disability Anthology
      From Heart to Art
Tracy Todd and Sean Mahoney, Something on Our Minds (vol. 2-3),

The AWP conference is coming up quickly, but authors interested in having their work at the Dis Lit Consortium booth can make inquiries to dislit666@gmail.com. The Disability Literature Consortium blog will provide additional information as well as the latest updates to the consortium's work.