The word crip was once used to discriminate. Today, it is reclaimed and celebrated.

In this remarkable anthology editors BS Windon, Laura Pettenuzzo, Misbah Wolf and Katie Hansord bring together a collection of writing on disability. Each contribution challenges dominant power structures and invites readers to rethink assumptions about disability, identity and belonging. Crip Stories is published in partnership with Mascara Literary Review, with the support of Creative Australia.

The contributors to the collection are: Mona Zahra Attamimi, Pat Bui, Hem Sid Chandran (aka Sid), Sandra Collins, Angela Costi, Sharleigh Crittenden, Skye Cusack, Julie Dickson, Carly Findlay, Irina Frolova, Hannah Hall, Sam Hamad, Katie Hansord, Joey Harper. Jenny Hedley, Judith Huang, Franklyn Hudson, Priya Gore Johnson, Mario Licón Cabrera, CB MAKO, J Marahuyo, Carly-Jay Metcalfe. Akii Ngo, Ann Nguyen, Arty Owens, Ethan Patrick, Laura Pettenuzzo, Rosie Putland, Ariel Riveros, Paris Rosemont, Marina Sano. Kerri Shying. Ari Spanos, TextaQueen, BS Windon and Misbah Wolf.

'Crip Stories is a collection that foregrounds the wisdom of lived experience. In accordance with the disability justice principle of leadership of the most impacted, it boldly and unapologetically holds space for narratives that have too often been pushed to the margins. Working on this anthology has been a transformative experience, and I am sure that its audience will find that reading it is, too. ' – Laura Pettenuzzo, co-editor

'Crip beingness-crip identities formed and shaped this book you hold- we are not on the margins- we are here, centred, a magnetic invocation of sharing, exploring and interfacing with disabled worlds- come with an open heart and explore our stories- we’re so glad you arrived!' –Misbah Wolf, co-editor

‘Crip Stories stands firmly on the ground of blak and brown work|words, allyship, love, community, reciprocity, disability pride, and sector development strategy marvellously deployed to resist the occlusive gaze of the ‘ablebodymind’. It questions binary categories such as difference and normality, shredding hateful stereotypes with a reinvented language, embracing older writers and vibrant emerging voices, to weave and inaugurate a way forward. Timely and vital, this book is not merely a miracle; it is a prayer.’— Michelle Cahill, author and artistic director of Mascara Literary Review

Crip Stories is a celebration and a call to action: to listen, to learn, and to imagine a more inclusive future. It invites us to rethink the stories we tell about disability and the spaces we create for belonging.

About the Editors

BS Windon is a neurodivergent writer of Wiradjuri descent based in Naarm. He writes quirky stories about quirky people and all of the dark goo living inside him. He is more confident on a stage in front of an audience than in social gatherings.

Misbah Wolf (she/they) is a CALD neurodivergent multidimensional artist living in Naarm. She writes books, poetry, performs, teaches, researches, and creates. Her creative work—which explores love, be/longing, ghosts, wildness– anything gothic—has appeared in many places.

Laura Pettenuzzo (she/her) is a disabled writer, speaker and accessible communications professional. Her work explores disability pride, systemic and internalised ableism as well as the power of self-acceptance. Her reviews, memoir and opinion pieces have been published in places such as Griffith Review, Archer Magazine, Meanjin and The Age.

Katie Hansord (she/they) is a neurodivergent and queer writer and researcher in Naarm. Her interests include poetry, gender, disability, and print cultures, and her writing has been published in Mascara, Unusual Work, LOR Journal, and the Long Paddock, Southerly Journal.

Crip Stories will be published by NewSouth Publishing in April 2026.