Verb Festival's Disability Literati event
By Arts Access Aotearoa | Posted: Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Writing for children and young people
Date:
Sun 10 Nov 2024, 10:30 am - 11:30am
Venue:
Embassy Theatre
10 Kent Terrace, Wellington, Wellington, 6011
Wellington
Category:
Community Event, Disability Cause Event, Projects Causes, Writing Publishing, Community Expo
Accessibility:
Wheelchair Access, Accessible Toilets, Mobility Parking
Cost:
$15
Website or Reg:
The popular Verb Festival 2024 runs in Wellington from 7 to 10 November, with two Crip the Lit events featuring disabled writers, some events NZSL interpreted and events wheelchair-accessible unless otherwise stated in the programme. One of the events is called Disability Literati: Writing for children and young people.
Children's literature has a history of presenting disabled kids as life lessons, plucky objects of pity, grotesque enemies, or simply absent. What's it like writing young characters who are disabled like you—or in different ways to yourself? Crip the Lit challenges stereotypes so that disability is represented and celebrated as part of the richness and diversity of humanity in all genres of literature, and in film, television and video.
Mandy Hager (Gracehopper), Erin Donohue (Because Everything Is Right but Everything Is Wrong) and Helen Vivienne Fletcher (Beside The River Styx) talk about their writing process, their favourites, and what they want to see in the future. Chaired by Elizabeth Heritage. This is a mask-friendly event.
To buy tickets and for more information about this event, visit the Verb Festival programme.