Interview - Adelle Purdham and I Dont Do Disability and Other Lies Ive Told Myself @canadareadsinspired
Interview - Adelle Purdham and I Dont Do Disability and Other Lies Ive Told Myself  @canadareadsinspired
Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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Tara is excited to chat with Adelle Purdham, who is an educator, parent disability advocate and author of the memoir-in-essays I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself published by Dundurn Press in 2024. It was named a Fall 2024 Most Anticipated Memoir & Biography by Indigo and 49th Shelf. Her prose and poetry appear in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online. Adelle has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and is a qualified French teacher. She currently woks as a Seasonal Part-time Faculty member at Trent University where she teaches creative writing in her hometown, Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), ON.
adellepurdham.ca
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dundurn.com
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