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Accessible Writing Tools and Technology
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Vision loss and print disability shouldn’t be a barrier to continuing to write. Learn from our team of experts in the Vision Australia Accessible Technology team how you can keep doing the all-important task of writing.
A Focus on Indigenous Authors during NAIDOC Week
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The Vision Australia Library has a range of fiction and non-fiction books by Indigenous authors. We encourage our members to explore our collection during NAIDOC Week and enjoy the work of some of Australia’s talented Indigenous authors.
Recommended Reads from the Melbourne Writers Festival
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Vision Australia Library was proud to partner with the 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival in May, hosting Toby Walsh in conversation on Machines Behaving Badly and Louise Milligan in conversation on her debut novel Pheasants Nest. Machines Behaving Badly and Pheasants Nest are both available in DAISY audio from the Vision Australia Library, along with the following selection of Festival highlights: International headliners Day by Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham headlined the Festival’s opening night to introduce his first novel in ten years, Day. This family saga follows the inner lives of a Brooklyn family through three days of a pandemic, haunted by unconventional loves and unrealised dreams. Available in DAISY audio. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Beloved US author Ann Patchett returned to the Festival on the back of her bestseller Tom Lake, a gentle meditation on family love and the passage of time. Set in a Michigan cherry orchard, narrator Lara tells her adult children about the youthful love affair she shared with the famous actor Peter Duke. Available in DAISY audio. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray The Bee Sting, by Irish writer Paul Murray, follows the four members of the Barnes family as they flounder in the wake of economic and environmental turmoil. Secrets from the past reverberate through to the present as Dickie, his wife Imelda, teenage daughter Cass and 12-year-old PJ reckon with their history and whether the future is already written. Available in DAISY audio. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s debut novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold is set in an underground café that’s been serving carefully brewed coffee with a beguiling promise – the chance to travel back in time. Available in DAISY audio. Local voices Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright Alexis Wright appeared at the Festival after winning the Stella Prize for Praiseworthy – the first writer to win the prize twice. Praiseworthy is an Australian epic, described as the most ‘ambitions and accomplished Australian novel of this century’ for its deep exploration of sovereignty and identity set in the fictional township of Praiseworthy. Available in DAISY audio. Women and Children by Tony Birch Women and Children is a tender novel set in 1965 that follows Joe, his mum and sister as they navigate life in a working-class suburb. Tony Birch was presented with The Age 2024 Fiction Book of the Year award on the Festival’s opening night, with Women and Children lauded as a novel of ‘great humanity’ with ‘particular relevance as the discussion about violence against women and within families is at the forefront of our minds’. Available in DAISY audio. Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Robyn Davidson Robyn Davidson journeyed solo across the Australian desert in 1977 with her camels and dog, an experience recounted in her 1980 bestseller Tracks. After a lifetime of travel, Robyn takes a journey back to her past in Unfinished Woman, a revealing memoir confronting the early losses of her childhood. Available in DAISY audio. A Brilliant Life by Rachelle Unreich Over seventy years had passed since Rachelle Unreich’s mother Mira was freed from a concentration camp in Germany. When Rachelle realized time was running out for Mira, who was ill with cancer, she resolved to undertake the most important interview of her life and discover the surprising secrets to her mother’s resilience and joy. A Brilliant Life captures the connection between mother and daughter and retells Mira’s extraordinary life. Available in DAISY Audio.
Writing opportunities for disabled writers
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What are the next steps to furthering your writing?
Coming-of-age stories in the Vision Australia Library
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The Vision Australia Library has both classic and contemporary coming-of-age stories that are sure to be hits with all ages.
This week on Talking Vision: Feelix celebrates 20 years of readin...
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Talking Vision is Vision Australia Radio’s flagship program, discussing the latest news and issues from a blindness and low vision perspective.
Summer Reads from the Vision Australia Library
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Dive into summer with this selection of diverse Australian voices for your reading pile.
Final Intergenerational Storytime for 2023 wrap up!
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Our final Intergenerational Storytime for 2023 was 30 million years in the making!
Vision Australia celebrates 20 years of life-changing sensory rea...
Feelix Library
Since its inception in 2003, Vision Australia’s Feelix Library has aimed to deliver the same literacy and knowledge to children who are blind or have low vision as their sighted peers.