Oleb Books launches new award for writers with disabilities

Disability publisher Oleb Books has launched the Oleb Books Personal Essay Award (OBPEA) for writers with disabilities. The literary prize will be administered by Pen 2 Paper (P2P), an international creative writing competition of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, which is the first in Texas to focus solely on stories about disabilities. The idea for the award came about after Oleb Books founder Belo Cipriani, a blind author and journalist, was with a group of friends and was asked to name 100 writers with disabilities. To his dismay, he…

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