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Five writers – Nasim Marie Jafry, Laura Elliott, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright and Louise Kenward – discuss what it’s like to write with M.E. and how chronic illness has forced them to discover new modes of understanding, new forms of expression, new realms of imagination (as edited by author Katy Wimhurst).
Read More “Our Words, Our Lives: Writing and M.E.”
Hannah Hodgson’s latest collection of poetry, 163 Days, powerfully bridges the gap between body and mind, the lived experience of disability and the medical establishment’s version of it, writes our reviewer Clare Moore.
Read More “My Body is a Word Search: A Review of Hannah Hodgson’s 163 Days”
In this powerful poem, Lizzy Yarwood contemplates the “electric current” of chronic nerve pain, and the emotional effect it has on both mind and body.
Read More “‘blinding’ by Lizzy Yarwood”
In her essay, author Katy Wimhurst explores how the experience of chronic illness challenges established (and often ableist) conventions of storytelling, opening up fiction – and indeed language itself – to new, imaginative possibilities.
Read More “Speaking from the Shadows: Writing Fiction and Chronic Illness”
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