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New Brunswick Reading (virtual Shane, a ‘Friend’) Feb 1 2024, 6 PM Ontario Time.
Register by writing thefiddlehead@gmail.com.
Wordsfest 2023 — “Stories of Medicine, Illness, and Disability” panel
Honoured to be taking part in Wordsfest’s 10th anniversary this year. Hope to see some friends in London ON (in the Museum) on Sunday Nov 5 at 4:30 PM. I’ll be discussing The Covid Journals (U Alberta P, 2023), The Suspect We (Palimpsest Press, 2023) and Saving (Great Plains Publications, 2023), and will be part of a panel including Therese Estacion, Bahar Orang, and Vivian Chong. Not to mention the theme of this session, I love the overarching theme of the anniversary: crisis, creativity, & care. Schedule can be accessed by site navigation here. & if you can’t make this event, do remember that I’ll be in London the Wednesday before, on Nov 1 2023 at 6:30 PM for the Black Mallard Reading Series with January Rogers (Mykonos Restaurant, 572 Adelaide St. N). I’ll read from The Suspect We.
Both Saving and The Suspect We reviewed in The Winnipeg Free Press!
Thank you Chris and melanie!
Interview on Jamie Tennant’s CFMU radio show Get Lit
Rounds at Toronto Western Dept. of Family Medicine
Wednesday 11 am 2023, via zoom, private event. But shared here because once upon a time, I was a pariah for being ill, & now I’m doing rounds because of the dailiness of illness and non-neurotypicality. Title of talk: “Solidarity at the Cultural Front: On Disability Work in Medicine.” Will conclude by reading from Saving and The Suspect We.
Launch of The Suspect We
Thursday May 11 7 pm 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto ON
Image of 4 books superimposed on a soft color background with type explaining launch location and date/time already provided above.
Image of book The Suspect We with text describing contents as follows: In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled. Written while the world huddled indoors, The Suspect We is the product of a poetic friendship as well as a reaction to it.
Throughout, Bennett and Neilson query CanLit politics and care deficiencies as mutually dependent while also taking care of one another through their own work and its address.
Shane Neilson 