This year the Six Bridges Book Festival will be virtual. You can find out more about the festival’s plans on their website.
The 5th annual New England Cerebral Palsy Conference will be taking place virtually. For more information, please visit their website.
Event: Different Worlds and Different Bodies: Representation of the Disabled Body in Literature.
This year’s Victoria Festival of Authors will be virtual. You can find out more information about the festival on their website.
Session: Truth, Trauma, Beauty, Beast. With Michael Prior and Jesse Thistle. Moderated by Carla Funk.
Join me on Friday, May 8, 2020, at 7pm EST as I read an excerpt from DISFIGURED on YouTube Live as part of #CanadaPerforms.
Accessibility Info: Reading will be offered via YouTube Live and closed-captioning will be provided.
Check out the 2020 Festival of Literary Diversity–all online and all free! Join me and over twenty acclaimed authors from Canada and around the world as we talk about and share the stories that bring us together.
PANEL ONE: FRACTURED FAIRYTALES, Thursday April 30, 2020, 8pm – 9:30pm EST.
PANEL TWO: FIVE YEARS OF FOLD, Monday May 4, 2020, 8pm – 9:30pm EST.
Accessibility Info: All panels and performances at #FOLD2020 will be close-captioned.
- “The Disability Narrative”. With Dorothy Ellen Palmer and Rasiqra Revulva
- Accessibility Info: gritLit 2020 takes place in Homewood Suites by Hilton in downtown Hamilton. All sessions take place in wheelchair accessible rooms with easy access to wheelchair accessible washrooms. For detailed accessibility information, please visit the hotel website.
- Saturday, April 4, 9:00am: “Different Worlds and Different Bodies: The Disabled Body in Literature” Discussion Class
- Accessibility Info: This discussion class is located in Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel, across the hall from a single-occupant, wheelchair accessible restroom. All session rooms at Muse & the Marketplace will have chairs removed from theater style seating for attendees using wheelchairs or other mobility devices, in addition to companion seating options.
- For detailed accessibility information on the Park Plaza Hotel, please see their accessibility statement.
- For more information on the #MUSE2020 conference, please visit their website.
- As part of Dr. Michelle Owens’ “Embodied Subjects” class in Disability Studies
- Accessibility info: McNally Robinson has wheelchair accessible entry and wheelchair accessible washrooms.