Episode 6 of The WIP Show featuring Abhishek Anicca is now live on YouTube.
The sixth episode of our long-awaited The WIP Show is live now only on our YouTube Channel.
About The WIP Show
The WIP Show is a platform dedicated to unraveling the intricacies of the writing process.
We speak to accomplished authors, publishers, and literary personalities to share their unique journeys—exploring challenges, triumphs, and the creative alchemy behind crafting captivating stories.
Hosted by Namrata, the Founder of Keemiya Creatives and Bookbots India, the show aims to inspire and connect with fellow writers and readers.
Did You Know? We also host a podcast on book marketing called the Bookbot Theory.
About Abhishek Anicca
Abhishek Anicca is a writer, poet, and a performer. He identifies as a person with disability and chronic illness. Abhishek did his graduation from Delhi University and Masters from TISS, Mumbai and an MPhil degree in Women and Gender Studies from Ambedkar University. He is a researcher who works on disability and gender, especially on the relationship between disability, masculinity and sexuality.
Abhishek is the founder of Dislang, an online magazine that publishes narratives by disabled and chronically ill people. He has written columns and other non-fiction pieces, for different publications over the years. His work has appeared in The Times of India, Outlook, India Spend, Unbias the News, The Quint, DNA India, Devex, Mad in Asia Pacific, Kitaab, The Third Eye, DailyO, Money Control, Agents of Ishq, News9live, Tarshi among others.
His Poetry in English and Hindi has appeared in Nether Quarterly, The Alipore Post, Gulmohur Quaterly, The Sunflower Collective, Prabhat Khabar, Posham Pa, Samalochan, Apni Maati, Jankipul, India Cultural Forum, Women’s Web among others. He has performed in Spiel Art Theatre Festival, Reframe Festival, LSD India, Nipman Awards among others.
His first book in English, a collection of memoir essays about living with disability and chronic illness, The Grammar of my Body, was published by Penguin Random House India in late 2023.
About The Grammar of my Body
Subverting an ableist India’s expectations from a disabled person to be ‘inspirational’ and an ‘underdog who made it’ despite their illness, Abhishek Anicca writes about everyday stories of living with disability and chronic illness in this memoir-in-essays.
With piercing mindfulness and radical vulnerability, Annica writes sparse and compelling essays on the self, questions of care and dignity, dating and navigating desire as a queer-disabled man, self-hatred, moving about with a crutch, chronic pain and shame, the chilling lack of representation in the media and reflections on nearing death. Conversational and informal, truthful and unflinching, Anicca’s wry and urgent essays in. The Grammar of My Body compels the reader to become at once distant from and proximate to their inner experiences.
Watch the full episode with Abhishek Anicca on our YouTube Channel
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