Access for All: journeying through disability and nature, Bethany Handley

11.30 at the Castle Hotel

Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist campaigning for access to nature for all. She was a keen hiker, climber and surfer before becoming paralysed, finding herself padlocked out of much of our countryside. Working at the intersection of climate justice and disabled people’s rights, Bethany believes that since we have created many of the barriers to accessing nature, we can also remove them.

 

She is an Ambassador for Country Living’s Access for All campaign, for Wales Coast Path and for Ramblers Cymru. Bethany was named one of the ten most influential disabled people working in politics, law and media in the UK, and one of the 100 most influential disabled individuals in the UK in the Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100. She won Creative Future’s Gold Prize for Creative Non-fiction 2023, was a finalist in Nine Arches Press’ Primers 2023 and was shortlisted for the RSL Jerwood Poetry Prize 2024.

 

Her writing, poetry and/ or activism has been featured by BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC One News, BBC Wales, Metro, and the Poetry Foundation amongst others, and published by magazines including POETRY, Poetry Wales, Buzz Magazine, The Welsh Agenda, Walk Magazine and Country Living. She edited Beyond/ Tu Hwnt: the Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers (Lucent Dreaming, Jan 2025). Cling Film, her debut poetry pamphlet, will be published by Seren in February 2025 and was named one of the 40 best books, films and events of 2025 by Country Living.

Chair Ella Peel.

Bethany’s books will be available to buy and there will be time after the session to have them signed.

Ticket & Access information

The earlybird price of £4.00 will continue until the 31 st March,  it will then increase to £5.00, unless you live within 10 miles of Llandovery in which case it will remain at £4.00.

You will be able to collect or buy your very special tickets, an artwork in themselves,  from the bookshop, if you buy your tickets online make sure you click local collection or you will be charged for postage, you may want to print off a copy of your order.

The Castle Hotel is fully accessible.

This event has been kindly sponsored by Aberystwyth University Centre for Creativity and Wellbeing,  because of this we are able to reduce the price of the tickets.

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