Scott Neigh is a writer, media-maker, researcher, activist, and parent living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
His latest book is Listen! Knowing the World and Fighting to Change It. It will be released by Fernwood Publishing in November 2025, and you can currently pre-order it. He is also the author of two books that explore elements of Canadian history via the stories of long-time activists — Resisting the State and Gender and Sexuality, also from Fernwood. Until March 2023, he was the host and producer of Talking Radical Radio, a weekly half-hour show that over the course of a decade brought more than 500 in-depth interviews with a wide range of activists, organizers, and other change-makers in the Canadian context to community radio stations and online outlets.
As well, over the last 25 years, Scott has written more than a hundred grassroots journalism articles — see, for instance, his feature article in This Magazine about labour movement opposition to the arms trade, his article in The Grind on the defund the police movement in Toronto, his annual roundups for The Breach about social movement victories, and his recent work at The Media Co-op. He is also a board member and volunteer editor at The Media Co-op, an independent grassroots outlet that has been publishing for almost twenty years, and a member of the editorial committee of Between the Lines, a Toronto-based, nonfiction, social justice-focused book publisher that has been around since the 1970s. Way back when blogging was young, he wrote prolifically at A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land, and he has recently resumed a version of that practice on this site. He has often been a prolific reader and reviewer of books. Occasionally, he has experimented with video, and he has an on-again, off-again relationship with TikTok.
If you want to commission a piece of writing from Scott or explore the possibility of collaboration, please get in touch.
This site aims to be a simple one-stop space to find Scott’s work online — both links to his presence on various social media and publishing platforms, as well as a repository here bringing his work published in 2019 and beyond into one feed.