Carly Findlay

Carly Findlay

Artist

Content Creation, Writing and Literature, Access Co-ordinator · Melbourne / Naarm, VIC

Carly Findlay OAM is an award-winning writer, speaker, appearance activist, content creator and arts worker. Her first book, a memoir called Say Hello, was released in January 2019. Carly edited the anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia with Black Inc Books. She writes on disability and appearance diversity issues for news outlets including the CNN, Vogue, ABC, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper and SBS. She works part time as Access Advisor at Melbourne Fringe. She is an ambassador for Face Equality International and Ovarian Cancer
Research Foundation. In 2020, Carly was awarded an Order of Australia.

About their work

Carly is a proud disabled woman, writing on appearance diversity, skin conditions, facial difference, cancer survivorship and the arts. She's open to sensitivity reading work for books and plays.

Growing Up African in Australia book cover (Carly has a chapter in this book) Crip Stories book cover (Carly has a chapter in this book) Owning It book cover (Carly has a chapter in this book) Growing Up Disabled in Australia book cover (Carly edited this book) Say Hello book cover (Carly wrote his book)
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