'Writing the Missing- All at Sea', by disabled author, activist, and Difference member, Lisette Auton, is a stunning piece of creative film-making that deals with disability, access, and kindness in ways you will not have experienced before.

Join us in celebrating International Day of Disabled People with the screening of Lisette's film. Lisette and Claire Malcolm MBE, Chief Executive of New Writing North, will be available for a friendly and informal Q&A afterwards.

The film is BSL interpreted, captioned and audio described. The Q&A will be BSL interpreted with closed captions available.

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‘Things I know about this film: it will be a startlingly beautiful lyrical essay, mesmeric, with a thread of the dark and political, truth that bites. It will be audio described, captioned, and BSL interpreted. Roaring surges of anger, laughter and tears are to be anticipated. Expect the sea, a purple stick, care, access, disability and neurodiversity.’- Lisette Auton

The film was commissioned for Durham Book Festival, following the success of Writing the Missing – A River Cycle which premiered in 2020. It was made with filmmaker and editor Rob Irish.

Lisette Auton does stuff with words: disabled writer, activist and creative practitioner. Award-winning poet; 2019 Early Careers Fellow for Literature at Cove Park; TSS Publishing list of Best British & Irish Flash Fiction. Debut novel The Secret of Haven Point forthcoming from Penguin, February 2022. Currently focused on Writing the Missing.