Admissions

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This groundbreaking collection documents the state of mental health in Australia foregrounding a wide range of voices with lived experience defining themselves beyond a diagnosis.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Admissions showcases more than one hundred works: poems essays lyrics fiction and illustrations from some of our leading writers comedians and public figures challenging prescribed notions of illness recovery treatment and trauma while reclaiming language as an act of mad pride.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Exploding with optimism and pain encounters and descriptions this is an unprecedented exploration of what is carried through life and writing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Contributors include:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Sara M. Saleh Grace Tame Felicity Ward Shastra Deo Nat's What I Reckon Helena Fox Krissy Kneen Christine Anu Elizabeth Tan Justin Heazlewood Kristen Dunphy Jennifer Wong Fiona Wright Amani Haydar Omar Sakr Sam Twyford-Moore Ellen van Neerven Ali Cobby Eckermann Anna Spargo-Ryan Eunice Andrada Steven Oliver and many more.</span></p>