[AWP Offsite] Stuttering & Writing: Five Authors on Speech Disability in Literature

Amid the welcome attention now paid to writers with disabilities, stuttering continues to receive scant notice. 

This panel, comprised of writers who themselves stutter and have made it the theme of their works, will discuss with the audience why and how they have come to to write, in prose and verse, about stammering in an otherwise fluent world. Participants include Adam Giannelli, Amy Reardon, Jordan Scott, David Shields and John Whittier Treat.

Adam Giannelli s the author of Tremulous Hinge, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012), which was shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and the editor of High Lonesome (Oberlin College Press, 2006), a collection of critical essays on Charles Wright. His writing has appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, New York Times Magazine, Washington Post…