Center for Mennonite Writing

CMW Journal

Documentary Creative Writing

• Introduction: Documentary Writing and Mennonite/s Writing

  by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

  For about a decade now, I have been interested in ...

• On Documents, Documentation, Writing and Experience

  by Raylene Hinz-Penner

  How does that "relationship" work, I wonder—between documentation and experience ...

• From THE WHITE MOSQUE

  by Sofia Samatar

  On Working with Documents

  In the 1880s, a group of ...

• Writings

  by Abigail Carl-Klassen

  I was raised in the rural, workingclass community of Seminole ...

• Excerpt: Time and Memory

  by Joyce Munro

  Author's introduction:

  I found her in her husband's ...

• The Body as Document: Some Thoughts on My Tattoo

  by Daniel Shank Cruz

  As soon as I walked out of the tattoo parlor ...

• Dirk Willems

  by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

  Erasure is a modernist poetry technique, a playful variation of ...

• Grandpa's Day Timers, As We Left They Sang, Plans to Prosper

  by Angeline Schellenberg

  I regard these found pieces from my elegy manuscript, Field ...