Subverting Fairy Tales: Amanda Leduc & Natalie Zina Walschots

Amanda Leduc, Natalie Zina Walschots and K.J. Aiello

Subverting Fairy Tales: Amanda Leduc & Natalie Zina Walschots

Amanda Leduc, Natalie Zina Walschots and K.J. Aiello

5:00pm

Tuesday, October 27

45 mins

Subverting fairy tales and superhero tropes will be on the forefront of this engaging double interview with writer and disability rights advocate Amanda Leduc (Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability and Making Space), and author, poet and journalist Natalie Zina Walschots (Hench). Dive in to these authors’ new works and challenge your views of how disability is explored (or excluded) in these popular fiction genres.

Interviewer: K.J. Aiello

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Subverting fairy tales and superhero tropes will be on the forefront of this engaging double interview with writer and disability rights advocate Amanda Leduc (Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability and Making Space), and author, poet and journalist Natalie Zina Walschots (Hench). Dive in to these authors’ new works and challenge your views of how disability is explored (or excluded) in these popular fiction genres.

Interviewer: K.J. Aiello

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Featured Authors

Amanda Leduc's essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the USA and the UK. She is the author of the novels  The Miracles of Ordinary Men and the forthcoming  The Centaur's Wife. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada's first festival for diverse authors and stories.

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Natalie Zina Walschots is a freelance writer, community manager and bailed academic based in Toronto. She writes everything from reviews of science fiction novels and interviews with heavy metal musicians to in-depth feminist games criticism and pieces of long-form journalism. She is the author of two books of poetry. In her free time, she has been exploring the poetic potential of the notes engine in the video game Bloodborne, writing a collection of polyamorous fairytales, developing interactive narrative classes and composing short text-based body horror games.

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K.J. Aiello is a Toronto-based writer. K.J.’s work includes essays, op-eds and book reviews, and has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, THIS Magazine and Toronto Life, among others. K.J. is currently working on a book of nonfiction, The Monster and the Mirror, which explores the intersection of speculative fiction and mental illness. The Monster and the Mirror will be published by ECW Press with an expected release in April 2024.

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5:00pm

Tuesday, October 27

45 mins

What to read

Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability and Making Space by , Hench by ,
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