This award is to support the writing of a memoir about the war in Ukraine and Mierau’s family connections there, drawing on his extended visit to the country in 2016. You can read the Manitoba Arts Council’s announcement in April, 2017, on their site here. To read an interview with Mierau about the project, go here. […]
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Mierau Receives Manitoba Arts Council Major Arts Award for 2017
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Detachment wins the 2016 Kobzar Literary Award
Wednesday night March 2nd qualified as a big moment for me and my family, as I won the 2016 Kobzar Award for my memoir, Detachment. Many, many thanks are in order, including to all the people who put this incredible event and award together, especially Dr. Christine Turkewych, and to the jury, represented on Wednesday by […]
Autobiographical Fictions gets launched at home…
Yesterday I got a chance to be interviewed by CBC Radio’s Ismaila Alfa about Autobiographical Fictions, my new book of poems. You can listen to the whole interview right here.
Detachment Shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award 2016, reading at IFOA
As a proud Ukrainian-Canadian, I am delighted to be on this short-list along with four other fine writers. From the Kobzar Literary Award press release:
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Detachment wins an award and has more media adventures
This last Saturday evening, April 25, I won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction at the Manitoba Book Awards. I didn’t expect to win, and became a bit incoherent from excitement and an overheated room.
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Detachment in the media
Detachment has had a terrific reception from Canadian national and local media in its first two months or so. Links follow:
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The Writers’ Blog Tour
I was asked by Patrick Friesen to participate in a blog tour, kind of a chain letter that keeps going from one Canadian writer’s web site to another, picking up—we hope—some readers along the way. Patrick’s description of his writing process is inspiring and shows why he continues to be a both prolific and engaging […]
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Video Interviews with Winnipeg Poets
Contemporary Verse Two magazine has been doing a terrific series of interviews with Winnipeg and Winnipeg-connected poets. Included so far are Patrick Friesen, John K. Samson, Maureen Scott-Harris and me. Clarise Foster conducted the interviews, and Melody Morrissette did the videography and production.
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Six to appear with Palimpsest in fall 2015
I’m proud to announce that my new book of poems, Six, will appear with Palimpsest Press in fall 2015, to be edited by an outstanding Toronto poet, Jim Johnstone.
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Placed memoir with Freehand Books! to appear in fall 2014…
Yesterday I signed a contract with Freehand for my book Detachment: An Adoption Memoir.
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