For Deaf and Disabled writers, the context is immutable. Deaf and Disabled people are currently being scapegoated, silenced and dehumanised in the media and by politicians. Our human and legal rights are being violated. Disabled people are being forced to fight for our survival. Beyond is a collection of work by Welsh Deaf and Disabled writers writing back.

A bold collection of essays on disability and deafness in 21st century Britain.

About the Author

Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist from South Wales. Bethany campaigns for better access to nature for Disabled people. Her work explores nature and disability, challenging the barriers Disabled people experience, and has been published in POETRY, Poetry Wales and Country Living, and featured by the Poetry Foundation, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Wales, amongst others. Bethany is one of the writers on Literature Wales' Representing Wales 2023-4, she was a finalist in Nine Arches Press' Primers, and she was awarded Creative Future's Gold Prize for Creative Non-fiction 2023. She was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition 2024. Bethany is an Ambassador for Ramblers Cymru, promoting better access to paths. Her debut poetry pamphlet will be published by Seren in February 2025 and she is currently writing her first non-fiction book on access to nature.

Megan Angharad Hunter is an author and screenwriter from Penygroes, Dyffryn Nantlle. Since graduating in 2022 with a degree in Welsh and Philosophy, she has been working as an author and children's book editor. Her debut novel, tu ol i'r awyr, won the Wales Book of the Year award in 2021, and her second novel, Cat, was published as part of the award-winning Y Pump series. In 2023, Megan took part in the Mathrubhumi Festival of Letters in India before contributing to a panel discussion on accessibility in the publishing industry at the London Book Fair. Astronot yn yr Atig, her first book for children has been shortlisted for the 2024 Tir na n-Og award.

Erin is a Welsh author, poet, creative practitioner and editor, who also works as a coordinator for Welsh poetry press, Barddas. She's the author of three books - Y Goeden Hud (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2020), Rhyngom (Gwasg y Lolfa, 2022), and O'r Rhuddin (Gwasg y Lolfa, 2024).

Reviews
We are resisting the forced silencing to build community and solidarity. This bilingual anthology builds community by presenting our voices together, celebrating our joy, our experiences, our defiance at a time when it is radical to do so. There is currently nothing like this anthology in Wales. The Deaf and Disabled community is sporadically spread across Wales. Beyond draws our voices together from throughout Wales to say this is our community and our voices belong together. Together, we write beyond the boundaries of our inaccessible and ableist society. Together, we write. -- Publisher: Lucent Dreaming



Book Information
ISBN 9781916632080
Author Various
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Lucent Dreaming
Publisher Lucent Dreaming
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm