Shane Neilson
@Sneilsonwwh
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Poet MD @macmedWRC PhD Dis/ability & CanLit. Edit: @gordonhillpress. Poetry Consultant: @cmaj. Judge @HippocratesInit 2025 The_Cost_of_Living @artelpress
Cambridge, Ontario
Joined January 2014
🇨🇦Friends: I am one of three judges for the £1000 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Details are here: https://t.co/V6h7HiuU7J... Let's go! Please RT at will, spread the word, do submit. @HippocratesInit
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Gotta catch 'em all --- bento boxes from the @MacMedWRC and @MacMedNRC. Thank you NRC for your inclusion of health humanities pedagogy
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Can't wait to devour your words!
ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > https://t.co/JzVuhthCJN *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > https://t.co/YAxiElsSao
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Hooray! Thank you sp & Todd
MFA student Todd Tremble reviewed What to feel, how to feel, former contributor Shane Neilson's (@sneilsonwwh) new book of lyric essays. Check it out: https://t.co/gQaLwyjEln
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One of my favourite every CME 'swag' offerings, btw @MacMedWRC
Next level whoa --- @MacMedWRC chocolate, made (but of course) by local chocolatier @ReidChocolates yum clinic energy
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And it found its way into Best Canadian Poetry 2026 @biblioasis (which is another way of saying, true story slant)
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They came! Re: "How to lose the audience", I think I just did this today on a conference call (keeping it real!). My thanks to the mighty @biblioasis, Mary & Brian, + the mags (@malahatreview, @TheFiddlehd) and editors (Iain, Rowan) that gave me a chance to lose more audiences
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I wrote an article about psychiatry and the humanities - and more glamorously, about asylums and gothic melodrama - up now @MedHums_BMJ . Check it out! https://t.co/N8LoqK5S3q
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This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassur...
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Introducing the inaugural "London" Literary Prizes contest! FREE ENTRY! Submissions are open in the Poetry and Prose categories from Nov. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 2025. Canadian and international awards. Winners announced in April 2026. Contest info & rules: https://t.co/EmMy2UBniI
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My online launch is next Tuesday 4 November. Please come.
The online launch of my new collection, Men of the Same Name, is Tuesday 4 November, 7pm in the UK, 3pm in Toronto. Jim Johnstone @anstrutherpress is hosting and will I hope talk with me about poetry. It will be better than New York but not as good as Montreal. Sign up below.
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Everyone, the COOLEST conference, you must send in an abstract
Last week to submit your abstract for the upcoming Creating Space conference, to be held in Ottawa, Ontario, from April 19-21, 2026. Deadline: Monday, November 3rd, 2026. https://t.co/IE5SaoKKTi
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The first academic study of my work has appeared in perhaps my all-time favourite forever academic journal, the Journal of New Brunswick Studies (sorry everyone else, but you know!): https://t.co/FrJaZTL5ks Thanks to Tom Halford, real lives forever. @GreatPlainsPub
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For those interested in intergenerational disability, & parenting intellectually disabled children, tune in to Craig Norris' Morning Edition on @CBCKW891 Wed Oct 29 8:10 am. We'll discuss the finalisting of What_to_feel,_how_to_feel for @CanadaCouncil Governor General's Award.
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2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards shortlists announced today. Shortlisted authors in 7 English language categories include Maria Reva, Lorna Goodison, Shane Neilson, Richard Van Camp, Sid Sharp, Donald Winkler. @CanadaCouncil @GGliterary #Canlit
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Scenes from the @riverstwriting reading last night in Guelph. Yay @SelenaMercuri @Hollay2 @porcupinesquill @goose_lane Books sold great crowd yay!
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At the clinic and just learned What_to_feel,_how_to_feel is a finalist for the @CanadaCouncil award for nonfiction! Time to start seeing patients - a good place to hide (with thanks forever to Aimée Parent Dunn and Jim Johnstone)
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One of our favourite poetry reads of the year? ✨ Notes from the Ward, gorgeous new poetry from Steffi Tad-y, explores bipolar disorder and psychotic break through lived experience and a poet’s eye. Learn more: https://t.co/5PtDDAFvZJ
#poetry
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➡️ Calling all sport health care professionals! ⬅️ ‼️ Let your voice be heard ‼️ ~1000+ responses to date to the survey below learning about the mental health and experiences of health care professionals working in sport. Survey Link: ⭐️ https://t.co/KHDlMHw6K7 ⭐️
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