#95 Crystal Randall Barnett on Writing, Disability & Intuition

Welcome to the next instalment of this string of episodes on writing with limitations and disabilities.

In this episode, Crystal Randall Barnett, a member of my Writerly Love Community, adds to the conversations we’ve been having in this series of episodes on writing slowly and listening to your body.

Crystal Randall Barnett is an emerging writer from Ontario. She has been published by The League of Canadian Poets and Blank Spaces and her first-place short story appeared in a 2023 fiction anthology from Chicken House Press. Her writing is physically impacted and creatively influenced by her disability, Persistent Post-Concussion Syndrome.

Crystal shares how she adapted her reading habits when her experience of persistent post-concussive symptoms made reading on the page a barrier. She also shares a simple hack to make audiobooks even more accessible—one I’ve implemented for myself.

And she reads from a poem I had the pleasure of publishing as an editor with Room.

All of the notes for this episode are up at rachelthompson.co/95

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