Will is Shane Neilson's debut collection of short fiction. The book ranges from straightforward East Coast depictions of alcoholism and frustrated farming told in dense, lyric prose, to experimental works that play overtly with language and form.
About the Author :
Shane Neilson is a mad/autistic poet, physician, and scholar. His creative and academic work concerns disability, neurodivergence, and madness. Shane is executive director of the first disability poetics festival in Canada. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Review :
"Shane Neilson's WILL is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Read this book." — Michael Winter
"A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson's work" — Steven Heighton
“powerful and incisive … Neilson’s style is dazzling” — Winnipeg Free Press
“humourous and foul-mouthed and tender and uncertain and real . . . its characters stay with you, their vulnerabilities exposing your own, long after the book is finished.” — The Bookshelf
“A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson’s work—poetry, fiction, memoir, and criticism—and these stories are no exception. What is new here is the range of the material, from a devastating account of a child’s grand mal seizure to a brilliant dystopic video-game fantasy.” — Steven Heighton
“A terrific collection that, I’m sure, will reward future readings.” — Brian Palmu
“The stories in Will are persuasive evidence that Shane Neilson pays the kind of attention that makes for effective medicine. His potent fiction certainly makes for essential reading.” — Fiction as Rx, Richard Cumyn
"Shane Neilson's WILL is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Read this book." — Michael Winter
"A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson's work" — Steven Heighton
“powerful and incisive … Neilson’s style is dazzling” — Winnipeg Free Press
“humourous and foul-mouthed and tender and uncertain and real . . . its characters stay with you, their vulnerabilities exposing your own, long after the book is finished.” — The Bookshelf
“A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson’s work—poetry, fiction, memoir, and criticism—and these stories are no exception. What is new here is the range of the material, from a devastating account of a child’s grand mal seizure to a brilliant dystopic video-game fantasy.” — Steven Heighton
“A terrific collection that, I’m sure, will reward future readings.” — Brian Palmu
“The stories in Will are persuasive evidence that Shane Neilson pays the kind of attention that makes for effective medicine. His potent fiction certainly makes for essential reading.” — Fiction as Rx, Richard Cumyn
"Shane Neilson's WILL is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Read this book." - Michael Winter "A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson's work" - Steven Heighton
