Recommended reading – Impact: Women Writing After Concussion

By Malayka Gormally. This article was initially published in our Concussion Update newsletter; please consider subscribing.

Impact: Women Writing After Concussion is an anthology containing the stories of 21 women writers reflecting on how their personal and professional lives have changed following experience with concussion. The book was edited by E. D. Morin and Jane Cawthorne and published by the University of Alberta Press. Below is a selection from the description on the publisher’s page that we used in our original synopsis of the book when it became available for pre-order; we include it here because we find it compelling and profoundly accurate.

“The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility. Impact offers compassion and empathy to all readers and families healing from concussion and other types of trauma.”