Book Launch with Shane Neilson and Shannon Arntfield

Celebrate the release of Shane Neilson's memoir Saving, from Great Plains Publications, and Shannon Arntfield's debut poetry chapbook Fallen Horseman, from Anstruther Press. Tuesday June 20th, 7:00pm at TAP Centre for Creativity.

About the Authors

Shane Neilson is a mad/autistic poet, physician, and scholar. His creative and academic work concerns disability, neurodivergence, and madness. Shane is the executive director of the first disability poetics festival in Canada. Saving is a memoir about fatherhood, illness, and family. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Shannon Arntfield is a second-career trauma informed therapist and poet, who turned to writing and psychological care in response to her lived experience as a child-mother-daughter and physician. Fallen Horseman describes some of her experiences as an ob/gyn. She lives in London, Ontario.