About the Disability Readathon
Readathon Hosts
Erin Hawley
Erin is a writer, accessibility consultant, and editorial director living in New Jersey.. Her disabilities are Muscular Dystrophy and anxiety. Her favorite book genres are mystery and fantasy, but she reads a wide range of genres regularly. You can subscribe to her booktube channel or check out her podcast, Everything You Know About Disability is Wrong, with co-host Lily!
Anna Goldberg
Anna Goldberg (they/she) is a queer, disabled geek and booktuber living in the Baltimore metro area. They love to escape into a good scifi/fantasy novel, though any genre will do! When they're not reading, Anna enjoys gardening, board games and tabletop rpg's, and spending time outside with her husband and their two dogs. You can find her @nymeria941 on Instagram and Bluesky, and as Anna G. on YouTube.
Lily Ellora Newton
Lily Ellora Newton is a queer and Autistic producer, filmmaker, and disability advocate with EDS. She co-hosts the Easterseals podcast, “Everything You Know About Disability is Wrong” with her bestie and co-host Erin. Lily consults with brands about Neurodiversity and is on the advisory council for the Sensodyne Inclusion Initiative. Outside of her disability advocacy, Lily makes films with her film company @ForcedPartyFilms, and hosts “True Blue Comedy,” a monthly community building variety show in Chicago.
Disabled people are underrepresented in literature, and also within the publishing industry at large. Part of why we started the Disability Readathon is to draw attention to stories by and about disabled people.
We want disabled people to witness themselves in novels and blog posts and podcasts - finding yourself on the page can be powerful and validating to your existence.
The Disability Readathon purposely includes and centers texts by multiply-marginalized disabled people and our experiences with disability differ vastly based on other vectors of identity.
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We also want nondisabled people to better understand their relationship to disability and to challenge their biases.
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If you would like to get in touch with us, please send us an email on the contact page!