From navigating submissions through to finding community and navigating the ups and downs of energy, the life of a disabled writer is filled with both richness and challenge. Join disabled author Amanda Leduc for a session on how to chart a path for yourself and your work, access resources, and advocate for change while also prioritizing your rest and joy.
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This session will be closed-captioned. Closed captioning provided by Zoom auto transcription.
This session will be followed by a Q&A.
Author
Amanda Leduc is a disabled writer and author of the non-fiction book DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE, which was published by Coach House Books in 2020 and shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Non-Fiction and longlisted for the 2020 Barbellion Prize. She is also the author of the novels THE CENTAUR’S WIFE, published in 2021 by Random House Canada, and THE MIRACLES OF ORDINARY MEN, published in 2013 by ECW Press.
Her latest novel, WILD LIFE, was published in the spring of 2025 and longlisted for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Giller Prize.
Her essays and stories have appeared across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia, and she speaks regularly across North America on accessibility and the role of disability in storytelling. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews. Amanda has cerebral palsy and presently makes her home in Hamilton, Ontario, where she lives with a very lovable dog named Sitka, who once ate and then peed on a manuscript. (Everyone’s a critic, it seems.)
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