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Read an interview with Laura Pettenuzzo on Crip Stories
Crip Stories is a collection of short works from disabled people, combining memoir, essays and poetry.
GOOD READING spoke to LAURA PETTENUZZO about her experiences editing the collection, and how the word 'crip' is now reclaimed and celebrated.
MEET LAURA PETTENUZZO
What initially drew you to this collection?
When Michelle (from Mascara Literary Review) first approached me with the idea for this anthology, several years ago ...
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Features
One hot morning in 1952, six-year-old Kya watches her mother walk away from their shack in the North Carolina ...
Nick Brodie's Under Fire gives a history of Australia, measured by the gun. An acclaimed and popular historian, ...
In a world where our bee population is decreasing, it’s more important than ever to provide as much help as we can ...
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Reviews
Anyone who has ventured to Bourke, NSW will be aware that Charles Dickens sent two of his sons to Australia in the ...
Speechwriter and award-winning author Leah Swann’s debut novel Sheerwater is an interesting one that signals great ...
If you love stories about Scandinavia or the 19th century, you’ll love The Bell in the Lake. Through deft and ...
Rumbly wheels, grumbly wheels, Hauling-up-the-hill wheels, Wheels go fast, wheels go slow. Shout what’s coming, if ...
This book is the first in a series and goes back before the Bush Mob, living in the Australian Outback, get ...
Two bushy-tailed squirrels happen to find a wonderful bounty of nuts at the same time.
The first squirrel thinks ...
Would you believe there are, ‘roughly’ 10 quadrillion ants on our planet?
And, ‘if you weighed all of those ants, ...
Funny Bones is a mammoth anthology (100 stories) that includes some of Australia’s bestselling authors and ...
Timmy the famous Shetland pony has everything he wants: fame, a mansion, servants, adoring fans … even his very ...
In the The Prickly Battle, the latest book from the series ‘Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies’, we see the ...
In Pests we are introduced to a bevy of animals, insects and spiders and world of intrigue. Our hero, Stix, a very ...
How would you cope if you suddenly found yourself on the run with your older sister and wheelchair-bound ...
Charlotte – Charlie to her friends – has an interesting condition called ‘synaesthesia’. For her, days have ...
A neurodivergent person is defined as someone whose neurological development is atypical. This can include Autism ...
If you’re interested in fabrics, these two books are for you. If you’re intrigued by the choice of an outfit worn ...
How is it that all animals instinctively know exactly what to eat so that they automatically receive the best ...
Ayik Chut Deng grew up as a child soldier in what is now known as South Sudan. The Lost Boy is his memoir that ...
Child abductions are the worst nightmare of parents and almost certainly a case that every police officer dreads. ...
This is my first Eva Dolan book, but apparently the fifth in the ‘DI Zigic and DS Ferreira’ series. It certainly ...
The Spill is a story of ripple effects and hidden consequences. After a car crash in remote Western Australia in ...
Greenwood opens on a near future that is all too believable – a global forest dieback (the Withering), the dusts ...
Fans of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have eagerly awaited the final part of this trilogy, the story of Thomas ...
If I had to nominate the animal most different from humans, the octopus gets my vote. This distance makes the ...
Anderson is a second- generation farmer which enables him to portray the trials and joys of a farming family with ...
In a remote corner of Tanzania, in 1970, Essie Lawrence lives with her husband in a primitive and underfunded ...
Hannah Mulvey grew up on Chesil, an island off the West Australian coast. It’s an isolated rural community and ...
If you like a book with fast-moving action, this is not for you. Strange Hotel is a cerebral read. I was often ...
Having not read a lot of satirical fiction, I found Adults a pleasant surprise; an outrageously funny story that ...
I loved Mandel’s Station Eleven and have looked forward to her next book. This book is very different.
The hotel ...
I enjoyed Luna’s debut novel Two Girls Down, which introduced the feisty private investigator Alice
Vega, and so ...
Almost 30 years after LAPD officers were videoed beating a black man with batons, the name Rodney King still ...
Not everyone is prepared to move to the other end of Australia to care for an aged parent, but that is what this ...
Publication of this memoir brings this esteemed Chinese author’s family to light for the first time.
This memoir ...
After finishing this extraordinary book, I had to put it aside for a while to process my own reaction to the raw ...
The ‘road less travelled’ is not usually the choice of the biographer but, when it is, the reader may be no less ...
I’m a huge Elena Ferrante fan, having been bewitched by her ‘Neapolitan Quartet’. This book is a different ...
From Helen Garner’s interesting account of extended family life with grandchildren, to Gillian Triggs’ excitement ...
We all eat and enjoy food. It is enmeshed in the social and official histories of many countries and someone who ...
Dog lover’s bookshelves already bulge with fictional and true stories about their faithful friends. This ...
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