Matt Alton

Matt Alton is a writer and performer based in Manchester, whose work explores the welfare system, chronic illness and the visibility of such conditions.

His prose blends stories from his life with retellings of fairytales and religious stories, asking how things could be otherwise. The Blue Shoes, published by Disabled Tales, worked through how to use the fairytale form to tell a disabled story without relying on ableist tropes.

His poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies including Under the Radar and Broken Sleep's Masculinity: an anthology of modern voices. A film-poem, made with artist Chris Alton, jointly won the Exeter Contemporary Award.

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