What does accessibility actually look like in the publishing industry?

Crip Culture is hosted by Rosie Putland and Fiona Murphy, our producer is Honor Marino. In this episode we talk to author Kylie Maslen and poet Esther Ottaway. Esther tells us about working with 23 disabled writers to create the poetry anthology, Raging Grace. Kylie shares what it is like to write and edit a book on a tight deadline.

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Guest bios:

Kylie Maslen is a writer and critic living on Country stolen from the Kaurna people of the Adelaide plains. Kylie's first book – SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS: LIVING WITH INVISIBLE ILLNESS – was shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in non-fiction, named in Guardian Australia's '20 best Australian books of 2020', named a Saturday Paper's 'Best new talent of 2020', included in bookseller Readings' 'Most talked about books of 2020' and declared 'a Millennial masterpiece' by Columbia University's Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine. Kylie's cultural criticism, social commentary and critical essays have appeared in the Guardian, Meanjin, InDaily, Adelaide Review, Crikey, Money Magazine, The Shot, Kill Your Darlings and Junkee, among other outlets. Kylie was an inaugural member of the External Strategic Advisory Board for Flinders University's Caring Future Institute and are the disability advocate on Splinter Journal's founding Advisory Committee.

Esther Ottaway is the author of She Doesn't Seem Autistic and a landmark anthology of Australian disability writing, Raging Grace: Australian writers speak out on disability (co-edited with Andy Jackson and Kerri Shying), and two other poetry volumes. She is the winner of the $25,000 Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry and People's Choice in the Tasmanian Literary Awards, and has won or been shortlisted for many international and Australian prizes. Esther convenes the Women's Poetry Oasis workshop series. She is AuDHD and has invisible physical disabilities.

Links and resources:

• Esther Ottaway

• Esther Ottaway, Instagram

• Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out On Disability, Edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying

• Kylie Maslen

• Kylie Maslen, Patreon

• Kylie Maslen, instagram

• Cover art by Judy Kuo, Instagram: @judyk__

• Judy Kuo

• Rosie Putland

• Fiona Murphy

• Honor Marino

Cover art: Judy Kuo

Music credits: -Moments Like These — Simon Folwar (Uppbeat) License: BEB32FWJ6WULT877 -My Tiny Love — Soundroll (Uppbeat) License: VPFSMMM3K2C71ONF