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[left] Book jacket designed by Angela Carlino of DISABILITY VISIBILITY: 17 First-Person Stories for Today adapted for young readers edited by Alice Wong. The cover has thin vertical gray lines with overlapping geometric shapes in green, blue, magenta, yellow and purple. [right] Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman with a mask over her nose attached to a tube for her ventilator. She is in a power wheelchair and wearing a gray sweatshirt with a tiger and leopard-print red and black pants. Behind her are bamboo trees. Credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography

Posted October 26, 2021 DVP News and Events

Disability Visibility anthology for young readers

I’m delighted to share my new anthology adapted for young readers, DISABILITY VISIBILITY: 17 First-Person Stories for Today, available now from Delacorte Press. This book has 17 edited pieces from … Continue Reading Disability Visibility anthology for young readers

$Graphic with a leaf green background. Left: A white woman with short hair and an occluded cataract on her right eye wearing purple hearing aids and a pearl necklace, looking with raised eyebrows at camera between trees. Photo credit: Lis Mitchell, 2021. Right: Cover image of Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson. From the letter “I” in “BEING,” the color of Elsa’s cataract refracts in a rainbow-colored prismatic effect over a dark background. “Deafblind” is emphasized with light.$

Posted October 24, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

Congratulations on your first memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, available October 26, 2021 from Simon and Schuster! How are you feeling right now in … Continue Reading Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

Screenshot from a piece from Publisher's Weekly. On the left is a photo of Alice Wong, wearing a gray sweatshirt with a tiger, she has a mask over her nose attached to a tube. She is in a wheelchair and wearing bright red lipstick. Behind her are bamboo trees. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography. On the right, text: Wong Memoir Goes to Vintage, Activist and consultant Alice Wong sold a memoir, Year of the Tiger, to Anna Kaufman at Vintage in a world English rights agreement. Vintage said the book is a “mosaic memoir” that charts the author’s life and work as an activist through an array of visual and prose forms, including photos, essays, artwork, and horoscopes. Wong, who founded the Disability Visibility Project (an online forum that aims to amplify the voices of those in the disabled community), also edited the anthology Disability Visibility, which Vintage published last year. She was represented by Julia Kardon at HG Literary. Year of the Tiger is slated for 2022.

Posted February 16, 2021 DVP News and Events

Year of the Tiger: New book in 2022!

I am delighted to share that I will be coming out with a new book next year, Year of the Tiger, published by Vintage Books. The title refers to the … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger: New book in 2022!

[left] A photo of Jamison Hill, a young white man with an almost clean-shaven head with expressive blue eyes. He is looking away from the camera, slightly to the right and wearing a light blue, long-sleeved button down shirt. He is smiling. [right] Light blue book cover with white text that reads, WHEN FORCE MEETS FATE. In the middle is an image of a hospital ID bracelet with text, “A mission to solve an invisible illness.” At the top, “A riveting true-life story” - AJ Baime, New York Times bestselling author of The Arsenal of Democracy. At the bottom: JAMISON HILL, Foreword by Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid.

Posted January 24, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Jamison Hill

Jamison Hill is a contributor to my anthology, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books) and I was delighted to interview him about his new memoir which … Continue Reading Q&A with Jamison Hill

Graphic with a white border and a pale blue-green background. On the left is ‘2020’ in stylized numerals with 20 20 stacked on top of each other. On the right in orange-red, ‘YEAR I REVIEW’ below in smaller text in dark blue, ‘DISABILITY VISIBILITY PROJECT’

Posted December 27, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP 2020: Year in Review

Hello comrades! I looked at my 2019 year in review and it felt like those events occurred eons ago. 2020 has been ROUGH for people all over the world. We … Continue Reading DVP 2020: Year in Review

A young white woman with long curly brown hair and brown eyes smiles at the camera. She stands beside a brown tree trunk and is wearing an emerald green tunic top and a white cardigan sweater.

Posted September 16, 2020 Guest Blog Posts

Life is Too Short for Someone Else’s Shame

“Life is Too Short for Someone Else’s Shame”: Why I Call Myself a Disabled Writer Amanda Leduc From 2008 – 2010, I lived for a time in Edinburgh, Scotland. … Continue Reading Life is Too Short for Someone Else’s Shame

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Posted August 23, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Ode to A Spit Cup

Below is a short excerpt of an essay I wrote that is part of an anthology edited by Kelly Jensen available now by Workman Publishing, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore … Continue Reading Ode to A Spit Cup

Posted August 23, 2020 Podcast

Ep 84: Anthologies

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/84_Ep_84_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s episode is all about anthologies with Kelly Jensen, a … Continue Reading Ep 84: Anthologies

Graphic with a background of overlapping triangles in bright colors with text: Available now! In the middle is an image of a book titled ‘Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century Edited by Alice Wong’ the book cover has overlapping triangles in a variety of bright colors with black text overlaying them and an off-white background. Book cover by Madeline Partner.

Posted June 30, 2020 DVP News and Events

Available now! Disability Visibility anthology

Hey friends! I made a thing and now it’s out in the world today. My anthology, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century (Vintage Books, June 30, 2020), … Continue Reading Available now! Disability Visibility anthology

$Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink. In the center, black text that reads: Disability Visibility Book Circle Kay Ulanday Barrett • Ellen Chang • torrin greathouse Porochista Khakpour • Robert Kingett Raymond Luczak • J. Albert Mann • Amber McDowell Lateef McLeod • John Poehler • H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL Sejal Shah • Maxfield Sparrow$

Posted June 30, 2020 DVP News and Events

Disability Visibility Book Circle 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has changed everyone’s lives. It is a privilege to have a book published and yet the pressure to promote can be incredibly difficult and inaccessible for … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Book Circle 2020

Text reads: Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century Online Book Launch. July 25th, 2020. 4-5:15 pm PT. Join us for this webinar featuring a discussion and readings by the editor Alice Wong and contributors to the book from the Bay Area. 10 lucky participants will receive a free copy! Register: https://tinyurl.com/DVBookLaunch. Webinar co-organized by the Disability visibility Project and the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. The image is of the book cover has multicolored triangles with the book title over it. Edited by Alice Wong.

Posted June 21, 2020 DVP News and Events

7/25 Disability Visibility Online Book Event

On June 30, 2020 I have a book coming out, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century from Vintage Books. It’s an anthology I edited featuring work by … Continue Reading 7/25 Disability Visibility Online Book Event

A white non-binary person smiles with trees and green plants in the background.

Posted April 12, 2020 Podcast

Ep 74a: Coronavirus and Spirituality

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/p/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/74a_FINAL_VERSION.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s episode is about the coronavirus and spirituality with Elliot … Continue Reading Ep 74a: Coronavirus and Spirituality

$Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink. In the center black text: Disability Visibility Book Circle, Funds for Video Conference Book Events by Disabled Writers. Deadline: May 1, 2020, DisabilityVisibilityProject.com. On the lower right corner is a QR code$

Posted April 6, 2020 DVP News and Events

Disability Visibility Book Circle: Call for Submissions

Deadline: May 1, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has changed everyone’s lives. It is a privilege to have a book published and yet the pressure to promote can be incredibly … Continue Reading Disability Visibility Book Circle: Call for Submissions

Posted March 9, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Marieke Nijkamp: The Oracle Code

Q&A with Marieke Nijkamp: The Oracle Code *This Q&A contains spoilers for the graphic novel, The Oracle Code available March 10, 2020, DC Comics Content warnings: eugenics, institutionalization, ableism, … Continue Reading Q&A with Marieke Nijkamp: The Oracle Code

A brown-haired brown-eyed woman stands smiling beside a tree trunk. She wears a deep green shirt and an ivory cardigan.

Posted February 10, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Amanda Leduc on Fairy Tales and Disability

Tell me a little about yourself! I’m a disabled Canadian writer with cerebral palsy currently living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I’ve always been interested in the weird and wonderful—my first … Continue Reading Q&A with Amanda Leduc on Fairy Tales and Disability

Photo of Nadia LaSpina, an Italian American woman with long curly gray hair with a microphone in front of her. She is wearing a black puffy jacket outdoors.

Posted November 22, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Book excerpt from Nadina LaSpina’s memoir “Such a Pretty Girl”

The following is a short adapted excerpt from Chapter 24 in a new memoir by Nadina LaSpina, Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride. Chapter … Continue Reading Book excerpt from Nadina LaSpina’s memoir “Such a Pretty Girl”