About Wishbone Words
About the magazine
Wishbone Words Magazine was founded in 2021 by Hollie Warren in the Lake District, UK. An online space for disabled and chronically ill writers and artists.
The idea is to create a safe, supportive and understanding online platform to share our voices, allow healing through vulnerability and to showcase underrepresented talents and voices.
If we can encourage more compassion and understanding, we are achieving the aim we set out to do!
Meet the team
Hollie is a 24 year old living in the Lake District, UK.
She has always loved to write, and hopes to one day be published.
She founded Wishbone Words shortly after finishing her creative writing degree in the hopes of uniting and raising awareness within the chronically ill and disabled community through creativity.
If you want to win her heart, just talk about Disney with her!
Kala is a 24 year old author living in Alberta, Canada.
She lives with a physical disability (Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 2,) and is confined to a wheelchair.
She's had 2 poetry collections published, as well as several short horror stories. Halloween is her favourite holiday.
She likes tattoos, chocolate, and witchcraft.
Paige Sophia is a 21 year old living with Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and a host of other chronic additives.
She lives in North Wales but has travelled around the UK and to Greece teaching water sports, something she has had to pause due to health.
She says of joining Wishbone Words Magazine: “I was drawn to Wishbone Words because of Hollie’s enthusiasm for amplifying disabled and chronically ill voices. I believe that together we can raise awareness and help others like ourselves; and of course, have fun doing it!”
Toni is a 26 year old living in New Zealand.
She has had a passion for writing since she was at school, and she would love to one day be published.
Toni has struggled with chronic illness for many years, her most debilitating illness being ME/CFS.
“I am so happy to be a part of Wishbone Words. I think it is an amazing opportunity for the chronically ill and disabled to be creative, but also spread real awareness of what our lives are really like.”
Anastasia is a 24 year old writer living with chronic illness in New Jersey, U.S.
Her favorite genres are poetry, short fiction, and arts criticism.
When she’s not writing, she loves to experiment in her kitchen and listen to 70s soft rock.
In hopes of connecting with others in the chronic illness community, she shares her favorite allergen-friendly recipes, along with her thoughts on navigating life and work with chronic illness, on her blog and Instagram account, @Shes.Radiant.