Writers & Readers Salon: Disability and Lived Experience Edition

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Date

Wednesday 29 April 2026

Time

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Costs

FREE

Location

Zoom

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Join us for an evening of readings and discussion hosted by novelist and poet Elspeth Wilson.

About the event

In our spring Writers & Readers Salon, poet and debut novelist Elspeth Wilson will be joined by the crime novelist and London Writers Awards alumni Chris Bridges, as well as award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist Gayathiri Kamalakanthan. Each speaker will read from their latest works, which will be followed by a panel discussion about developing a career as an author with a focus on writers who are either disabled and/or have lived experience of disability.

Access information

This event will run for 1.5 hours with a break halfway through.

It will also be BSL interpreted.

If you require access support please email [email protected] ideally two weeks before the event date.

Our sponsors

This event is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Sam and Rosie Berwick and sponsorship from ALCS.

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About the Authors

  • Elspeth Wilson

    Elspeth Wilson

    Elspeth Wilson is a Scottish writer and poet. Her debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2025 and explores how far we’ll go to belong. She also runs the Substack Neurodivergent Notes on Writing.

  • Chris Bridges

    Chris Bridges

    Chris Bridges is an alumnus of the 2022 London Writers Award. His debut novel Sick to Death was shortlisted for the 2025 McDermid Debut Awards. He previously wrote a weekly column for an LGBTQ+ lifestyle website and was a theatre reviewer for various sites. As a former NHS nurse with a hidden disability, he likes to feature the untold stories of sick, dying, and disabled people in his work and smash the trope of the passive disabled character with a background role.

  • Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

    Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

    Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil writer and access worker based in London. They’re interested in how language shapes belonging and how we might use it to build freer futures. They won the Poetry Archive Now Prize 2025 and the Disabled Poets Prize 2024. Their play Period Parrrty is a trans Tamil rom-com and opened at Soho Theatre in 2025. Their debut novel Bad Queer is forthcoming with Faber.

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