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Mierau Receives Manitoba Arts Council Major Arts Award for 2017

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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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 […]

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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.

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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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DETACHMENT: AN ADOPTION MEMOIR

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ENDING WITH MUSIC

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FEAR NOT

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