The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of writing! We’re joined by Sarah Fawn Montgomery to discuss her new craft chapbook, Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice. Sarah Fawn is in conversation with Zach Powers, author and Artistic Director at The Writer’s Center.

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice. She is also the author of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, which The Paris Review describes as “the wakeup call we need” and The Atlantic says “exemplifies a nuanced approach to life with mental illness.” She is also the author of Halfway from Home, winner of a Nautilus Book Award for lyric prose, as well as three poetry chapbooks. Abbreviate, a collection of flash nonfiction, is forthcoming. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University, where she teaches creative writing and disability studies.

About the Book

Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice is a vital craft text that interrogates power and privilege within the creative writing classroom, making space for disability, chronic illness, and neurodivergence. One of the only craft texts that explores the dangers of the ableist writing workshop, Nerve shares Montgomery’s experience living and writing with disabilities to offer readers essential tools and techniques to develop their own disabled writing practices. Providing a comprehensive overview in a manageable size, this text provides readers ways to unlearn ableist craft advice they may have come across in traditional writing workshops, strategies for developing disabled writing practices, techniques for designing disabled writing spaces, methods to discover disabled forms and structures for creative work, practical tips for the business of being a writer, and various craft exercises and creative writing prompts.

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