The Winter 2025-2026 issue of Wordgathering includes the following 17 book reviews:
- K. J. Aiello, The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell
- Rachael Boast (ed.), Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets
- Dave Brennan, A Cyborg’s Father: Misreading Donna Haraway
- Shane and Hannah Burcaw, Interabled: True Stories About Love and Disability from Squirmy & Grubs and Other Interabled Couples
- Amanda Cachia, The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique
- The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Pills and Jacksonvilles
- Katie Ellis, Mike Kent, and Kim Cousins (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies
- D. Christopher Gabbard and Talia Schaffer (eds.), Care and Disability: Relational Representations
- Tea Gerbeza, How I Bend Into More: A Long Poem
- The Borg Collective, Borg4Borg Productions, and Including Disability, BORG.DIEM
- Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway, Kerry Shying (eds.), Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability
- Anne Kaier, How Can I Say It Was Not Enough?
- Raymond Luczak (ed.), I’LL TELL YOU LATER: Deaf Survivors of Dinner Table Syndrome and Animals Out-There W-i-l-d: A Bestiary in English and ASL Gloss
- Liv Mammone, Fire in the Waiting Room
- Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things
- Travis Chi Wing Lau, What’s Left is Tender
- Tiffany A. Yu, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto
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.
Back to Volume 19, Issue 2 – Winter 2025-2026