When they couldn’t find the stories that they needed, these young writers wrote them for themselves.
Writer, disability and women's rights advocate Hannah Diviney (I’ll Let Myself In) always knew that her experience of the world was different from those around her so, she surrounded herself with the fantastical worlds she found in books.
When Matilda Boseley (The Year I Met My Brain) was diagnosed with ADHD in early adulthood, it was an earth-shattering revelation, leaving her on her own to figure out how the diagnosis would affect her and her future.
Hear how Hannah and Matilda navigate the world, in-conversation with author Fiona Murphy.
Matilda Boseley is an award-winning social media reporter and presenter for Guardian Australia. Through the publication's popular TikTok channel, she writes and hosts their short-form news explainers. This work won a Quill Award for Innovation in Journalism and was nominated for a Walkley Award for the same category. She was named Walkley Awards' 2019 Student Journalist of the Year. Her first book, The Year I Met My Brain, documents her experiences after being diagnosed with ADHD at 23 and investigates the hidden costs of ADHD among adults.
Hannah Diviney is a leading disability advocate/media figure/actress and debut author. Her first book, the personal essay collection I'll Let Myself In, was published in September 2023. She is now working on some fiction, hoping to write both novels and screenplays. Hannah is also the Editor in Chief of global media company Missing Perspectives, which aims to be recognised as the #1 destination for female storytelling in the world.
Fiona Murphy is an arts critic and the author of "The Shape of Sound", a memoir about deafness. It was highly commended in the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Her writing about disability and accessibility has been published in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Wellcome Collection, and many more outlets.
