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We would like to inform our readers that our Summer 2026 issue (No. 308) — Disability: The Revolution normally distributed July 15 is unavoidably delayed. The issue is now expected to ship from our printer August 26, which means that once it reaches our office, it will only be shipped to subscribers and newsstands in early September.

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Kirti Bhadresa lives in Calgary, Alberta on Treaty 7 territory. Kirti has fiction and nonfiction writing in many publications including The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and Room Magazine. Her first book, a short story collection entitled An Astonishment of Stars, was published in October 2024 by ECW Press.

Not Lost, Just Late: Women and the ADHD Awakening
Nowhere Girl, Carla Ciccone. Random House Canada, 2025.

“There’s nothing I love more than intellectualizing my problems rather than confronting them,” writes Carla Ciccone near the end of her reported memoir, Nowhere Girl: Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation. Not for the first time, I felt bizarrely seen by this smart, vulnerable, and meticulous book.

Curiosity Elevates This Cait
Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, Cait Gordon. Dinsdale Press, 2025.

This review is being written under duress. No, Cait Gordon isn’t holding a gun to my head or anything. She’s more subtle than that. Instead, Cait (pronounced “Cat”) went and put together a short story collection so remarkable that anyone reading her book HAS to sing its praises.

Medicalization is Not Care
Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain, Jaipreet Virdi. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.

Love, Death, Disability, and Deer
The Reign, Shane Neilson. icehouse poetry, 2025.

Hands-free, a writer drags us laughing into the weeds of loss and pain
Look Ma, No Hands, Gabrielle Drolet. McClelland & Stewart, 2025.

Poetry Editor Chuqiao Yang's Interview with 2025 Poetry Contest winner Melanie Power whose poem "Ode to the Bakeapple" was published in