Spaced at Fuse Festival by The Waiting Room Arts Company. In September 2021 Liel created and performed work through Spaced. Spaced is a cry for solidarity between members of the disability community and those who identify as D/deaf. It gets deep and meaningful about psychosocial disabilities and physical impairments, tackling forbidden subjects like advocacy and curing disabilities. Two of Liel’s poems, Spark and Your Skin, appear here.
SANE Australia: in 2021 Liel has combined her passions and knowledge for both writing and mental health to write for SANE Australia. You can find posts about Disability, mental health and wellbeing – exploring the relationship between disability and mental health, alongside useful strategies to look after oneself. There is also a post about how to identify and recognize perinatal anxiety – providing ways to recognise if you’re feeling anxious in pregnancy or after having a new baby, and strategies to manage this common experience. Lastly, find her useful post about How to talk with children about your mental health issues.
We’ve Got This – Stories by Disabled Parents
In March 2022, a chapter of Liel’s writing will be published in this anthology by Black Inc. Books. This is the first major anthology by parents with disabilities, edited by Eliza Hull. Find out more and pre-order the book here.
[Image description: A book cove of We’ve Got This – Stories by disabled parents. The cover is blue with large yellow and orange three dimensional text reading WE’VE GOT THIS. Smaller yellow text reads STORIES BY DISABLED PARENTS and white text reads Edited by Eliza Hull.]
ABC Article: As a part of the ABC TOP 5 Arts residency, Liel wrote a piece about disability representation in Australian fiction. Find it here: ‘Publishing more fiction by Australian authors with disability is crucial for disabled people’s representation – and their wellbeing’
Media
In April 2022 a radio package Liel created has been aired on The Book Show of the ABC. The package focussed on disability writing in fiction by disabled authors. Listen here (start at 24’20”).
In April 2022 Liel spoke on 3RC about writing disability parenting for We’ve Got This. Listen here.