Ross Showalter's guest appearances

Ross Showalter

Strange Horizons

Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series

Adrienne Celt

Siri Hustvedt

Ijeoma Oluo

Alexis Coe

Allison Williams

Lori Gottlieb

Neil Patrick Harris

Sebastian Junger

Mo Rocca

Arkady Martine

Caitlin Doughty

Jane Yolen

Pepper Schwartz

Lidia Yuknavitch

Peter Sagal

OwlTail

Sarah Salcedo

John Wiswell

 Join Town Hall Seattle Writer-in-Residence Sarah Salcedo, author John Wiswell, and author Ross Showalter for a virtual-only event as they share their short fiction and discuss the power of stories, creative processes, and the beauty and difficulties inherent in bringing their disabilities into their own work. Sarah Salcedo is an award-winning filmmaker, illustrator, and author. Her writing has been published in Luna Station Quarterly, Hobart After Dark, Not Deer Magazine, Pacifica Literary Review, The Future Fire, Hypertext Magazine, Words &amp; Sports Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been featured at The Daily Drunk and their Marvelous Verses anthology. She is the Spring 2022 Writer-in-Residence for Town Hall Seattle and attended the 2022 Tin House Winter Workshop. John (@Wiswell) is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He is a winner of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for “Open House on Haunted Hill,” as well as a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. His work has appeared at Uncanny Magazine, the LeVar Burton Reads Podcast, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction, among other fine venues. Ross Showalter is a Deaf queer writer based in the Pacific Northwest. His short stories, personal essays, and critical pieces have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, Catapult, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. His work has been a finalist for the Best of the Net anthology, included on Entropy Magazine’s Best of the Year lists, and supported by the Anderson Center and Deaf Spotlight. He earned his BFA in creative writing from Portland State University and he currently teaches creative writing courses in UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

<a href="https://townhallseattle.org/event/sarah-salcedo-with-john-wiswell-and-ross-showalter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Join Town Hall Seattle Writer-in-Residence Sarah Salcedo</a>, author John Wiswell, and author Ross Showalter for a virtual-only event as they share their short fiction and discuss the power of stories, creative processes, and the beauty and difficulties inherent in bringing their disabilities into their own work. <a href="https://email.email.submittable.com/c/eJwVjUsOhCAQBU8juyFNo3wWLNzMPZqPwQQHAxivP5q8VVVSL7qo42LZ7hAQQYACIWZh-IIGlPegg5ZGJjXNkA7aC--XP_YxyJfEQz1YdknZCNtmhQ96JkSy2myChFWoSVrJistjnH2S64TfZ_d9806N8qdTCSnWN_Rw1hxRq7_nK1dPbZxXOV_3B23AMp4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Sarah Salcedo</a> is an award-winning filmmaker, illustrator, and author. Her writing has been published in Luna Station Quarterly, Hobart After Dark, Not Deer Magazine, Pacifica Literary Review, The Future Fire, Hypertext Magazine, Words &amp; Sports Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been featured at The Daily Drunk and their Marvelous Verses anthology. She is the Spring 2022 Writer-in-Residence for Town Hall Seattle and attended the 2022 Tin House Winter Workshop. <a href="http://johnwiswell.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">John (@Wiswell)</a> is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He is a winner of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for “Open House on Haunted Hill,” as well as a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. His work has appeared at Uncanny Magazine, the LeVar Burton Reads Podcast, <a href="http://Tor.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tor.com</a>, Lightspeed Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction, among other fine venues. <a href="https://www.rossshowalter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Ross Showalter</a> is a Deaf queer writer based in the Pacific Northwest. His short stories, personal essays, and critical pieces have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, Catapult, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. His work has been a finalist for the Best of the Net anthology, included on Entropy Magazine’s Best of the Year lists, and supported by the Anderson Center and Deaf Spotlight. He earned his BFA in creative writing from Portland State University and he currently teaches creative writing courses in UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Presented by <a href="https://townhallseattle.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Town Hall Seattle</a>. To become a member or make a donation <a href="https://townhallseattle.org/support/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here</a>.

195. Sarah Salcedo with John Wiswell and Ross Showalter: Disability in Fiction

Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Ross Showalter's “Water Through Our Hands.” You can read the full text of the story here.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Ross Showalter's “Water Through Our Hands.” You can read the full text of the story here.

“Water Through Our Hands” by Ross Showalter, read by Anaea Lay