Stim: An Autism Anthology
By Lizzie Huxley-Jones
Stim: An Autism Anthology
By Lizzie Huxley-Jones
A collection of stories, essays and art from autistic authors and artists.
About the book
Around one in one hundred people in the UK are autistic, and the saying goes that if you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. Autistic people's personalities, differences and experiences outweigh the diagnostic criteria that link them, yet stereotypes persist and continue to inform a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is to be autistic.
Rarely do autistic people get a chance to speak for themselves, but this insightful and eye-opening collection of essays, fiction and visual art showcases the immense talents of eighteen of the world's most exciting autistic writers and artists.
*Stim *invites the reader into the lives and minds of the contributors, and asks them to recognise the challenges of being autistic in a non-autistic world. Inspired by a desire to place the conversation around autism back into autistic hands, editor Lizzie Huxley-Jones has brought together humorous, honest and hopeful pieces that explore the many facets of being autistic.
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Lizzie Huxley-Jones
Lizzie Huxley-Jones is an autistic person and occasional writer, based in London. She currently works as editor and publicity human at independent micropublisher 3 of Cups Press.
Otherwise, she can be found avoiding working on her manuscript by proposing new anthology projects, being weird online or taking her dog Nerys for a walk. She can also be found over-enthusiastically chairing author events around London. In her past career lives, she has been a research diver in the Philippines, a children's bookseller and digital communications specialist.
She tweets too much @littlehux and you can find out what she's up to here. You can reach her at lizzie.stim@gmail.com.
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- 30th March 2020 Join us for the virtual launch of Stim!
Hello there,
I hope this update finds you all as safe and well as can be. I know a lot of autistic people (including myself) are finding the changes to routine and lack of access to certain safe foods very difficult to manage. I'm sorry it's so tough, and I'm thinking of you.
We have a little lightness to share. This week is the book's official publication date on Thursday 2nd April, to coincide…
9th March 2020 Join us at Foyles for the first public Stim event!Hello all,
Sorry for not updating you for ages. The last few months has been proofing Stim, writing a whole other book and having surgery so things have been a little hectic, but I have a LOT of good news to share.
First of all a quick update: the hardbacks are being printed. I'm going to Unbound next week to sign all those that are at a tier that need signing and then they should all start…
27th September 2019 The CoverHello all,
I totally failed at holding out to do a big cover reveal and last night put it up on Twitter, because I couldn't keep it back much longer.
SO, it's time for you to see it (if you haven't already seen it on there).
The cover was designed by Luke Bird, who did some of my favourites of the last year (Convenience Store Woman, Milkman), and I think he absolutely nailed the feeling…
26th September 2019 Three Exciting Updates!Hello Stim fans,
I have three exciting updates to share with you today.
First of all, I handed in the proofed manuscript back to Unbound this week. What that means is that not only have I edited it, but another editor went through and checked it and proofed it, and our wonderful production team are now going to typeset it, which means it is about to start looking a lot more like a book, rather…
27th August 2019 Stim has officially been handed in!Hello there friends,
It has been a few months since I popped in to let you know how things were going, mostly because there wasn't really much to update you on -- I have been editing and battling some health wobbles for the last three months.
But I come to you today because I have some good news. I just handed the full manuscript in.
The book is finally book shaped, rather than many individual…
17th May 2019 Editing, editing, editingHello friends,
I hope you are well, and that you are having a nice May. It's been over a month since I popped by here, so I thought it is high time I swing by and tell you how the book is going.
When I launched Stim, I was determined that no one would work until I could guarantee we could pay them -- essentially until we hit 100%. This is because I believe no one should do any work without being…
2nd April 2019 Exciting announcement for World Autism Awareness Day!Hello all,
Today is World Autism Awareness Day (part of Autism Awareness Week), and we have a little announcement.
Sadly Aisja Mahmood will no longer be able to write for Stim due to personal circumstances, but I’m pleased to say we have a new writer joining us *drumroll*
Please welcome Agri! Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author, based in Sweden. His work has appeared in The White Review, Asymptote…
22nd February 2019 10% off your next bookHello Stim backers!
I hope you're all well and it is as sunny where you are as it is here.
I'm just popping by to tell you that the wonderful bods at Unbound have a special 10% off code for February: ENDOFFEB10. You can use this on projects up until the 28th of February.
Might I recommend you check out another autistic project on the site -- a collection of short stories by eight autistic…
20th February 2019 100% FundedWe did it. You did it!
At 11.40 this morning, we hit 100% after a heart-racing countdown on Twitter. I'm absolutely blown away by the response we've had and support.
Thank you all for putting your faith in us, and trusting that we are going to make you a great book. The contributors and I are hard at work setting deadlines and drafting work, so be assured that your book is being cooked up as…
18th February 2019 It's all gone a little wildHello faithful Stimmers,
I hope this update finds you well. If you happen to be following me and the project on Twitter, you'll know that last week everything went a little wild.
I've been busy wearing my other hats (dogsbody at 3 of Cups Press and freelance editor) the last couple of weeks. Last Friday, I was busy working on some autism related work that had come in for the weekend and I figured…
23rd January 2019 Happy 2019! (and sorry it's been a while)Hello chums,
I hope this update finds you all well and cosy, especially given the sleety-snowy weather the UK is experiencing at the moment.
To those of you who have recently pledged for Stim, thank you! Welcome. Pull up a chair.
To those who've been with us a while, I'm sorry it has been so long between updates. It may come as no surprise to you but Christmas, as much as I love it, is kind…
10th December 2018 65%! Hoorah!Hello chums,
I hope you're all doing well and feeling suitably festive, or happily unfestive if you'd prefer that option.
We haven't got an Introducing... to share right now as our next batch are happily scribbling away, and we will have a few posts for you in the new year, and I felt that now was probably a good time for a break.
Admittedly, I thought it would be a break from crowdfunding…
7th November 2018 Autism in Women & Girls conference live tweetsHey everyone,
In the update from the other day I mentioned that I'd been livetweeting at the Women and Girls conference and would try and find a way to share that outside the bounds of Twitter.
And tadaaa, I have managed to do so.
Keep in mind my thread only covers 1 talk from the 3 separated streams in the day, so you could check out the #autismwomen hashtag to try and find tweets from…
6th November 2018 Introducing.... Waverly SMHello all,
Apologies for the month-long radio silence here. As I mentioned in the last post I'm currently moving house, which for autistic people can be a small nightmare: disrupted current routines, new ones to make, whole new living environments to get used to, new transport routes... it's a lot for my brain.
Also I had the pleasure last week of attending the National Autistic Society's conference…
1st October 2018 We're on our wayHello everyone,
I hope you're all doing well. It is the 1st of October, which means I'm fully ensconsed in plaid and kicking about crispy fallen leaves -- truly Autumn is my season.
The last month has been a bit quiet on my end because I've been moving house (which is also why we had a temporary Stim Saturday hiatus), but we amazingly flew up by 7%?! This doesn't sound like a lot, I know. 7…
10th September 2018 Introducing.... Tjallien de WitteHello all,
Each week, I will be introducing you all to a contributor to Stim (though we have taken a hiatus for September as I'm moving house, which is a very big task in of itself). When we're back in October, you can tune in on Saturday evenings on Twitter on the #StimBook hashtag around 6pm where each person will talk a little about themselves and answer any Qs you have. Follow my Twitter for…
23rd August 2018 Introducing... Robert Shepherd!Hello all,
Each week, I will be introducing you all to a contributor to Stim. If you're on Twitter, you can tune in on Saturday evenings around 6pm where each person will talk a little about themselves and answer any Qs you have; else you can pop over here to read all about it in condensed form.
This week I have the pleasure of introducing you to Robert Shepherd. Robert has always found the…
7th August 2018 Introducing... Reese Piper!Hello all,
Each week, I will be introducing you all to a contributor to Stim. If you're on Twitter, you can tune in on Saturday evenings around 6pm where each person will talk a little about themselves and answer any Qs you have; else you can pop over here to read all about it in condensed form.
This week I have the pleasure of introducing you to Reese Piper. Reese is a stripper, writer and…
6th August 2018 Introducing... Ashleigh Mills!Hello all,
Each week, I will be introducing you all to a contributor to Stim. If you're on Twitter, you can tune in on Saturday evenings around 6pm where each person will talk a little about themselves and answer any Qs you have; else you can pop over here to read all about it in condensed form.
This week I have the pleasure of introducing you to Ashleigh Mills. Ashleigh is a poet, psychologist…
30th July 2018 Introducing... Gemma Williams!Hello all,
Each week, I will be introducing you all to a contributor to Stim. If you're on Twitter, you can tune in on the #StimBook hashtag on Saturday evenings around 6pm where each person will talk a little about themselves and answer any Qs you have; else you can pop over here to read all about it in condensed form.
This week I have the pleasure of introducing you to Gemma Williams, who…
16th July 2018 Introducing... Grace Au!Hello all,
Each week, I will be introducing you all to a contributor to Stim. If you're on Twitter, you can tune in on Saturday evenings around 6pm where each person will talk a little about themselves and answer any Qs you have; else you can pop over here to read all about it in condensed form.
Starting us off is Grace Au, a UK based writer contributing a piece of short fiction about hungry…
27th June 2018 Announcements this Saturday!Hello all,
I hope this update finds you all well and, if you're in the UK, keeping yourself cool in this heatwave. It has been exceptionally quiet on my front due to a massive health wobble this last month, which has finally sorted itself out, phew. Hopefully I won't be leaving you so long again.
So! Exciting things are coming. Remember last update I discussed curating an anthology? Well, I…
22nd May 2018 Curating the bookHello all!
It's been a couple of weeks since I last spoke to you because I've been, as the title suggests, curating the book. At the start of the month was the deadline for pitches for the "second half" of Stim, a way to ensure we reached voices and talents beyond my own network. Across the two open calls for pitches (one of which I did pre-launch on Unbound) I've had about 100 pitches.
ONE…
3rd May 2018 New stories to shareHello all,
I hope you're all doing well, and (if you're in the UK) prepping for the incoming heat wave this weekend. Fill up those ice trays.
This weekend I'm going to be going through all the pitches I received for Stim. You may have noticed that the contributor list says "and more to be announced". That's because I decided to launch the book with roughly half the book planned and keep searching…
23rd April 2018 Find out more about the Stim contributorsHello all!
I hope you've been enjoying the sunshine we've been having in the UK this week (alternatively, I hope you've had good weather wherever you are).
I've been a little quiet here as I've been sorting out things over at the publisher I co-run 3 of Cups Press, as we were crowdfunding for a book over there as well at the same time! Despite that, I've been doing quite a lot of Stim bits…
23rd March 2018 A lot can happen in seven daysIf you'd told me pre launch that we'd be comfortably sitting at 22% with 140 backers after one week, I wouldn't have believed you. Crowdfunding is a difficult game, influenced by paydays, your audience, even the day of the week you launch, and having ran two Kickstarters for 3 of Cups Press before hand I knew the best thing was to expect nothing.
I couldn't have expected this. Not just the financial…
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