Summer Coaching Program with Maurice Mierau for Rady Faculty, Staff, and Students

Sponsored by the Alan Klass Program in Health Humanities

Academic writing is a core part of our communication as health professionals and creative writing brings many benefits. Writing makes people better observers, as it requires that we watch and listen carefully, to be able to accurately describe human behaviour. This enhances our ability to hear and understand our patient narratives. Creative writing also helps build empathy through adopting the perspectives of others in our writing.

We are pleased to offer an opportunity to work with a writing coach to build your academic or creative writing skills. Book a free 1-hour session in which you will work one-on-one with a writing coach via Zoom. Sessions are available on a first come, first served basis.

The Summer Coaching Program will run from June 8, through August 31, 2023.

To Register: Please click here to register, or, register through his website and click on the link that reads ‘Summer Coaching Program 2023’ https://www.mauricemierau.com/.

Facilitator: Maurice Miearu

Maurice Mierau’s last book was a monograph on the poetry of Patrick Friesen, How Mind and Body Move. His memoir, Detachment, won the Kobzar Literary Award, as well as the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. His poetry collections include Autobiographical Fictions, Fear Not, winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry, and Ending with Music. Mierau was founding editor of the Canadian fiction imprint Enfield & Wizenty, and of the online magazine Winnipeg Review. Born in Indiana, he grew up in Nigeria, Manitoba, Jamaica, Kansas, and Saskatchewan. He holds an MA in English literature and in 2019 attended a Columbia University seminar on Narrative Medicine. Mierau has worked extensively in the College of Medicine with a variety of learner groups.