Author shaneneilson

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My hybrid verse novel concerning Willard, an intellectually disabled man, and a white-tailed buck, set at the dawn of the Cold War in southwestern New Brunswick. Damn, Julie Scriver does beautiful work.

Best Canadian, x2

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An incredible week. While home in New Brunswick, teaching medical educators how to foster learning amongst non-neurotypical learners, I received TWO notices of inclusion in the Best Canadian Series: poetry, for “How to lose the audience” originally published in The Malahat Review, & essay, for “Diagnosis Day” from The Fiddlehead. Both of these pieces concern difference, and it was a spiritual experience to read “How to lose the audience” to the assembled physician audience in the Miramichi. My thanks to Rowan McCandless and the ‘hat’s editorial board for selecting my work, and to the team at Biblioasis for keeping the ‘best’ series going.

Version 2.0, happening now!

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Over 20 first year students in attendance, which is over 2/3 of this year’s class! Wow, and only made possible by our very inclusive dean. Below, the magical pizza that (look carefully!) is steaming out its goodness:

Cover reveal!

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My new book of lyric nonfiction about a topic not yet explored in CanLit – non-neurotypical fatherhood of a non-neurotypical child – is now available for preorder from Palimpsest Press. Do click on this link to preorder!

Judge for 2025 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

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Friends: I am one of three judges for the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The prize has three streams, one for health providers, another for, let’s say, ‘regular’ people (poets like you!), and another for those under 18. If you are a health care person, or if you are a poet, consider submitting! Details are here. First prize in both the ‘open’ and health care categories is £1000. DEADLINE FEB 14! Last year a Canadian physician, Tamar Rubin, achieved third prize in the physician category. I happen to have read hordes of great poems by many Canadian poets that are health-themed over the years, and for their part, Canadian physician-poets are a bizarrely strong cohort in comparison to, say, America and the UK. We punch above our weight! Let’s go! Please spread the word, do submit.

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I have a new article out in Image on Spencer Reese. Willard (an intellectually disabled man left behind in the expropriated land that would become CFB Gagetown), a character from my upcoming book The Reign with Goose Lane Editions , would say MOOOOOOON. How did they know – Appalachians, moon? My thanks to Nick Ripatrazone – check out his The Habit of Poetry, it rules, I learned so much.