We don't talk about grief, and yet the #neurodivergent community feels is acutely. This #nonfiction anthology explores grief in all its forms. #OwnVoices include authors who are #AuDHD and #ActuallyAutistic.

https://books2read.com/grief

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#SpoonieAuthor

We don't talk about grief, and yet the #neurodivergent community feels is acutely. This #nonfiction anthology explores grief in all its forms. #OwnVoices include authors who are #AuDHD and #ActuallyAutistic.

https://books2read.com/grief

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#SpoonieAuthor

We don't talk about grief, and yet the #neurodivergent community feels is acutely. This #nonfiction anthology explores grief in all its forms. #OwnVoices include authors who are #AuDHD and #ActuallyAutistic.

https://books2read.com/grief

๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“šโ™พ๏ธโ™ฟ
#SpoonieAuthor

We don't talk about grief, and yet the #neurodivergent community feels is acutely. This #nonfiction anthology explores grief in all its forms. #OwnVoices include authors who are #AuDHD and #ActuallyAutistic.

https://books2read.com/grief

๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“šโ™พ๏ธโ™ฟ
#SpoonieAuthor

We don't talk about grief, and yet the #neurodivergent community feels is acutely. This #nonfiction anthology explores grief in all its forms. #OwnVoices include authors who are #AuDHD and #ActuallyAutistic.

https://books2read.com/grief

๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“šโ™พ๏ธโ™ฟ
#SpoonieAuthor

Looking for autistic Irish teenagers (15-18 years) to write for an anthology of essays for teenage readers. Essays can be about anything to do with being autistic or how autism shapes your life. Book to be published next year in collaboration with New Island publishers and Little Island publishers.

#Autistic #Irish #Writing #OwnVoices

While all the essays in *Disability Visibility* are important and often revelatory reads, I think A. H. Rheaume's "Why My Novel Is Dedicated to My Disabled Friend Maddy" will be of particular interest to #bookstodon readers. #ownVoices #disability

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/da6443ca-3c06-4fc3-bdfe-44d1d74781b1

Yesterday I finished "Marshmallow and Jordan" by Alina Chau. It's an excellent cozy graphic novel about a friendship between a wheelchair-using athlete and a baby elephant in Indonesia. It's got lovely vibrant art, an interesting plot, and a final twist that fits nicely.

Not sure it's totally realistic about the accessibility of water polo, and it's not #OwnVoices but the author made what to me seems like a good effort to be both respectful and neither too-positive nor too-paternalistic about disability. Would be curious to hear the perspective of someone who use mobility aids about this of course.

#AmReading #ReadingNow

Just finished "Libertad" by Bessie Flores Zaldรญvar. An #OwnVoices novel about being queer in Honduras, both personally and politically, that grapples aptly with complicated questions of politics and belonging at a personal scale.

CW for domestic violence and lethal state repression.

It wasn't everything I'd hoped for from the cover, but my hopes weren't exactly reasonable and it *is* very good.

#AmReading #ReadingNow

Today's reading roundup features books by disabled authors or featuring disability. Most should be by #OwnVoices authors, the ones that might not be weren't clear in author information. #LoveOzYA #LoveOzMG

@sophiegreenbooks @allenandunwin @wordsbyoliviamuscat @chelsea_luker_psych @riveted_press Dr Helen Edwards Writes @drhelenedwardswrites

https://ashleighmeikle.com.au/2026/01/08/disabled-authors-and-books-read/

https://ashleighthebookmuse.substack.com/p/disabled-authors-and-books-read

Disabled Authors and Books Read

Each year, I also try to read books that feature disability and by disabled authors. Much like my LGBTQIA count, this is limited by what I can find, what I am sent and by what is published. The latโ€ฆ

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