Our Team
Julie Farrell
Director. Co-Founder. Disruptor.
Julie Farrell is a writer and activist, living by the sea just outside of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is Co-Founder of The Inklusion Guide: a kickass guide to making literature events accessible to disabled people. Her work has seen her listed by The Bookseller 150 as one of most influential people in publishing, and taken her to events across the UK to educate on making the world a more inclusive place to all. Her poetry has won prizes, including the Aurora Prize for Writing in 2021, and her contemporary, coming-of-age YA novel, We Are Fractals, has received four shortlistings, including the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2022 Anthology.
Julie's work explores our relationship with nature, and how it helps us to process our grief, loss, and nostalgia in relation to family, identity and the planet. She has published personal essays and creative journalism on disability, otherness and equality. Since 2019, Julie has been diagnosed as autistic, as having ADHD, and also with Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a hereditary connective tissue disorder. Her work explores many facets of living with chronic illness, and how they are intrinsically entwined with the way we experience the world.
Julie has an essay publishing in the forthcoming Someone Like Me: an Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers, where she explores her deeply joyous connection with the stars and cosmos.
She serves as a trustee of Mslexia Magazine and as a member of the Advisory Group for the new UK arts access scheme for D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent people: All In. She was a judge for Scotland's National Book Awards 2023.
Follow her on Instagram: @juliefarrellauthor
Ever Dundas
Co-Founder. Co-creator.
Ever is a queercrip author living in Edinburgh. She was co-founder and co-creator of the Inklusion Guide (2021-2023), before stepping down to focus on her creative writing. For her work on Inklusion, she was listed in The Bookseller 150 list of the most influential people in publishing in 2022 and the Inklusion team were shortlisted for the FutureBook Awards, receiving a commendation in Nov 2022.
Ever is the author of critically acclaimed novels Goblin and HellSans and she’s represented by Jenny Brown Associates. Goblin won the Saltire First Book of the Year award in 2017 and her sci-fi thriller disability justice novel, HellSans, was shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards (SNBA) 2023 Fiction Award. Ever was in The List’s Hot 100 in 2022 for her work on Inklusion and her novel HellSans.
Ever has had various short stories, articles, and creative non-fiction pieces published, including in New Writing Scotland, Canongate’s Imagine A Country, Mycelia, The Bookseller, Nova Scotia 2, and most recently in Historic Environment Scotland’s queer histories anthology Who Will Be Remembered Here.
Ever has appeared at various festivals and events over the years, including Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), Aye Write Book Festival, Wigtown Book Festival, Bradford Literature Festival, and WayWORD festival.
Ever was invited on a writing residency by Mexico City’s fabulous Casa Snowapple, where she stayed for two weeks in January 2024 with local and international writers, using the time to write, collaborate, run workshops for each other, and explore the city.
In 2023, she was commissioned to write and perform a piece for Push The Boat Out poetry festival, utilising the cut-up technique to celebrate the history of Edinburgh’s Summerhall building as a vet hospital, collaborating with musician David Paul Jones. Using James Hogg’s Justified Sinner, she ran cut-up and erasure workshops online and in person at EIBF 2024, and at EIBF 2025 she is performing a cut-up piece using Shelley’s Frankenstein at Jenni Fagan’s It’s Alive! cabaret night.
Ever is currently working on her third novel, which is one big love letter to music.
“Now more than ever the literary world should be open to every person who wants to take part. Inklusion are taking a much-needed first step towards a more inclusive and diverse live book scene.”
Good access is important to us
Julie says:
When I was planning and delivering monthly events, annual conferences, festivals and awards for the Society of Young Publishers and Professional Publishers Association Scotland a few years ago, accessibility was the last thing on my mind. I understand that people who aren’t disabled tend not to consider or prioritise access, and that’s why I’m passionate about delivering this concise, user-friendly, but comprehensive access guide for the literature sector in the UK.
Ever says:
Since my debut came out in 2017, my experience as a disabled author and audience member has varied across the industry. Access is inconsistent, and it was difficult having to constantly advocate for myself, not knowing how that would be received. I don’t want fellow disabled people to go through this and feel excluded from culture. Good access practice should be the norm, not the rare exception, and I’m passionate about making this happen.
Research partner
Cat Mitchell
Cat Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in Publishing and the Programme Leader for the Creative Writing and Publishing BA at the University of Derby. She previously worked in the publishing industry, including four years at Penguin Random House. She is currently researching disability in publishing, and in 2021 published the Access Denied report (PDF), which investigated barriers for disabled job seekers and employees in the industry.