Matt Alton is a disabled writer living in Manchester, UK. His poems have been published in Under the Radar, Ink Sweat & Tears and Broken Sleep’s Masculinity: an anthology of modern voices, among other places.His film-poem Brighton, Unfinished was commissioned by Apples and Snakes and is available on YouTube. A fairytale-essay hybrid, working through how to tell a chronic illness story without ableist tropes, was published in Disabled Tales.