Disabled Tales

@DisabledTales

Discussing disability in fairy tales and folklore | Submissions open | Founded/run by @bethowriter

disabledtales.co.uk Joined February 2022

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Disabled Tales @DisabledTales Jan 16, 2023

Call For Submissions!

We're open to #fairytale & #folklore related poems, stories, essays & artwork that focus on disability!

Full guidelines here: disabledtales.co.uk/submit.html

Please RT & spread the word! 💚

#DisabilityTwitter #WritingCommunity #Disability #PoetryCommunity

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Disabled Tales @DisabledTales Sep 30

HERE WE GO!!! This project has been a JOY and I cannot wait to share this folktale collection with you all!!!

Cures and Curses: Disability in Folklore and Folk Tales - out Feb 2027 with the wonderful @THP_Folklore! 🩵

Beth O'Brien @bethowriter Sep 29

COVER REVEAL!!!!

My new book, CURES & CURSES, brings together 28 traditional folk tales from around the world that show disability has always been a part of our story!

Thank you to @THP_Folklore & Ele Marr for the perfect cover! 🩵

Out Feb 2027! Pre-order link below👇

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Disabled Tales @DisabledTales Aug 13

'Modern diseases have scientific labels,
scleroderma, myositis.
Some, old names from fairy tales,
rickets, scarlet fever. Hers was both'.

What if Fairy Tales were Diagnosis Stories by Christa Fairbrother: disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/what-if…

#Folklore #Fairyales #Disability #Poem

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Disabled Tales @DisabledTales Aug 6

'The body speaks
and nothing answers.
Pain repeats itself
until it becomes background.'

Read The Gatekeeper by Meg Dolan: disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/the-gat…

#Folklore #Fairytale #Disability #Poetry #WritingCommunity

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Disabled Tales @DisabledTales Jul 30

'“You know,” the chimpanzee answered. “Like when you are born without legs or arms.”
“What’s wrong with that?” a python asked.'

Read Norm Cowie's humorous short story, Noah's Ache: disabledtales.co.uk/fiction/noahs-…

#Folklore #Fairytales #Disability #ShortStory

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