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Author: noe.bartmess
Monsters In My Mind: An Interview with Ada Hoffmann
Today I’m interviewing Ada Hoffmann, who recently published the poetry and short story collection MONSTERS IN MY MIND. Noe: The pieces in MONSTERS IN MY MIND cover a period from 2010 to 2017. Since 2012, you’ve reviewed books and short stories with autistic characters or autistic authors in your Autistic Book Party review series. Has…
Deciding Whether to Attend Clarion West, for Disabled Writers
(Update, Feb 2020: Clarion West redid their FAQ this year, and paid me to incorporate much of this post’s content into it! So go read their FAQ. There’s a little material in here that isn’t in there, mostly about my own personal experience, but the FAQ is more current.)
In Summer 2016 I attended Clarion West, a six-week residential writers workshop. I’m disabled, and before I went I worried about whether I would be able to handle it. This post is about disability-relevant aspects of Clarion West, and I’m writing it to help other disabled people figure out whether it’s realistic for them to attend.