Brian Trapp

Growing Up Alongside a Sibling With Disabilities A new novel explores what happens when one twin is born with significant challenges.

"I hope people with chronic conditions can see themselves and their family members in these characters and see the humor and the resilience in them as well." New interview with Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! #bluesky #novel 📚🎉
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Millay House Rockland Writing and caregiving often exist in tension—and in conversation—with one another. Whether planned or unexpected, short-term or lifelong, caregiving shapes how writers live, work, and create. For wri...

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Join us today for this free online panel: Writing While Caregiving, 6:30-8p Eastern, sponsored by the @millayhouse . The panel will be moderated by @jeneva22.bsky.social -- Hope to see you there for readings and rich conversation on time, sense of self, advocacy, and ethics. Link in comments.

It's a great book, Brad! I've been recommending it to the dads.

I loved your book, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social! Give me a shout if you ever come to Oregon.

Thank you, @electricliterature.com for letting me shout out my favorite comic novels about disability, including work by Stanley Elkin, Saou Ichikawa, Cy Weise, Madeleine Ryan,
@aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social and
@tricialockwood.bsky.social.

Finishing Sentences: An Interview with Brian Trapp about Humor, Disability, and Twinship in his debut novel Range of Motion - The Cincinnati Review CR contributor Anya Groner interviews former editor Brian Trapp about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.

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Thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for featuring an interview with me. Check it out. Link in comments.

Book Trailer of the Day: Range of Motion Range of Motion by Brian Trapp (Acre Books).

Delighted to see RANGE OF MOTION featured at @shelf-awareness.com! Link to watch the #book trailer for @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's debut #novel! 🎉📚🎥
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Thanks, CR!

Range of Motion is officially out today. It took 10+ years. No matter how difficult the writing was, deep down I knew a character like my twin brother needed to exist. Don’t give up, kids. @acrebooks.bsky.social #briantrapp #acrebooks #smallpressbooks #rangeofmotion #newfiction #caregiving

Three Authors, One Evening: An Evening with James Stewart III, Brock Clarke & Brian Trapp | October 16, 2025 | The Mercantile Library Join us for an evening of fiction with a trio of authors presenting their new books from UC’s Acre Books. About Defiant Acts James Stewart III’s powerful debut novel documents the life of a working-cl...

Mark your calendars, #Cincinnati! Thurs, Oct. 16 | 6:00pm! The Mercantile Library. THREE Acre Authors, One Evening: with @thejs3.bsky.social, Brock Clarke & @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! Link for details! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #booksky 📚🖊️
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With new novel, author writes his disabled brother into literature Brian Trapp’s novel “Range of Motion” isn’t directly about his brother Danny, who had cerebral palsy. But it’s an effort to write more characters like him into literary fiction.

With new novel, author writes his disabled brother into literature By Annie Aguiar buff.ly/s9EbVSf

With new novel, author writes his disabled brother into literature Brian Trapp’s novel “Range of Motion” isn’t directly about his brother Danny, who had cerebral palsy. But it’s an effort to write more characters like him into literary fiction.

Thanks to Eugene's local paper for featuring a profile on me and the novel. @acrebooks.bsky.social
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Brian Trapp
Quarter After Eight Reading Series
Monday, October 20
6:30 PM

Brian Trapp, an OU alum, is the author of the forthcoming novel Range of Motion and he's being generous enough to share some of his work with us before the release of the book later that week.

Thanks to the Masters Review and the great @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social for publishing an interview with me about Range of Motion. I hold forth on writing disability, fiction vs memoir, and novel inspiration. @acrebooks.bsky.social
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Thanks so much, Allison!

One of my favorite comedians blurbed my book. Zach Anner, actor and writer for ABC's Speechless, gave my novel the kindest endorsement I could ask for. Please watch the hilarious Speechless episode where he gets tased by Minnie Driver. This man deserves his own TV show. @acrebooks.bsky.social

Happy to receive this wonderful endorsement from the great @elizabethmck.bsky.social, author of one of my favorite novels, The Portable Veblen. When I meet someone who also loves that book, it’s like a delightful secret we share. Please read it!
@acrebooks.bsky.social

One month until Range of Motion officially drops from @acrebooks.bsky.social. Happy to share this fantastic blurb from Jonathan Evison. I love his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which was made into a @netflix.com film starring Paul Rudd.

Range of Motion (@acrebooks.bsky.social) is about one month away from being published. Happy to have a blurb from the wonderful @matjohnson.bsky.social. Check out his hilarious novels: Pym and Loving Day and Invisible Things.

First blurb for RANGE OF MOTION from a writer I very much admire:

Range of Motion A tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood. Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them. T...

Transforming perceptions of #disability and interdependence through tender attention to detail, @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's RANGE OF MOTION is wrenching, beautiful, and sharply comic. Preorder this #novel (forthcoming Oct.) at
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Feeling really good about my NEA chances this year! Fingers crossed! I'm just gonna to check my email real quick...

About 3 more months until the book is out from @acrebooks.bsky.social! Preorder if you like potty-mouthed and inappropriate AAC devices. #aac #disability

Today's Read: How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona. Just came out. It's about a woman who takes her dog for a walk and doesn't come back.

The rare literary thriller that success both as literature and as a thriller.

Call for submissions. The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! In black text over a background of open books.

Call for submissions! 🗣️
The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
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Writer Friends: Is anyone planning on proposing panels for AWP Baltimore 2026? I'd love to be part of a panel on : publishing with an independent press, writing caregiving or disability, autobiographical writing, fiction vs memoir, novel-that-takes-forever-to-write.

Electric Lit Submissions call: Personal Narrative WINDOW EXTENDED! Personal narrative essays of 2000 - 6500 words. Open through 5/4 (original date of 4/27 is slashed through) or until 750 cap is reached. More info on EL's Submittable page

Personal Narrative's submission window is extended! You now have until 5/4 to submit your longform personal narrative essays. Submit: buff.ly/VDL6a2k