Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice is a vital craft text that interrogates power and privilege within the creative writing classroom, making space for disability, chronic illness, and neurodivergence. One of the only craft texts that explores the dangers of the ableist writing workshop, Nerve shares Montgomery’s experience living and writing with disabilities to offer readers essential tools and techniques to develop their own disabled writing practices. Providing a comprehensive overview in a manageable size, this text provides readers ways to unlearn ableist craft advice they may have come across in traditional writing workshops, strategies for developing disabled writing practices, techniques for designing disabled writing spaces, methods to discover disabled forms and structures for creative work, practical tips for the business of being a writer, and various craft exercises and creative writing prompts.