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#91 Shantell Powell on Visceral Writing and Writing with ADHD
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#91 Shantell Powell on Visceral Writing and Writing with ADHD

Part of the Writing with Disabilities and Limitations Series of Episodes

Welcome to the first interview in my series of episodes on writing with disabilities and limitations.

I sit down with a wonderful Writerly Love membership community member, Shantell Powell, a two-spirit author, artist, and self-described swamp hag who grew up on the land and off the grid. Her publication credits include Augur, Solarpunk Magazine, MetaStellar, The Deadlands, and honestly keep racking up—we talk about how she does this in the episode, and she has an excellent hack for writers with ADHD to track submissions that I think is brilliant and would be helpful to many writers, myself included.

We get into her often very visceral writing; she reads a piece that I would describe that way, visceral, and speculates a little about why that flavour comes out in her work. For this series and focus, we talk about how she works with her various limitations and disabilities, which include neurodivergence and now long COVID-19, among other conditions and limitations.

Listen in to hear from a singular writer whose writing practice shows that there is not one way to be a writer.

Show notes: https://rachelthompson.co/91

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