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The CMW Community offers a space for readers, writers, students, and scholars to interact around the subject of Mennonite writing. It houses the CMW Journal Discussion as well as the CMW News.
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Darp Web Project
May 1, 2018https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nus7kTFnjhA
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Poetics of Place - June 7-10, 2018
February 12, 2018A writing workshop with Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Jeff Gundy, Becca J. R. Lachmann, and Anita Hooley.
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Monster Portraits by Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar
February 12, 2018An enticing, gorgeous and bold new book, Monster Portraits by Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar, has just been published by Rose Metal Press.
For more information, check out this link:https://rosemetalpress.com/books/monster-portraits/
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Mennonite/s Writing: Celebrating Thirty Years, Oct. 16-19, 2020
February 12, 2018Save the dates for the next major Mennonite/s Writing conference will be held at Goshen College in October 2020, tentatively scheduled for the weekend of the 16-19. It will celebrate the marvelous work that has emerged since the first conference was held at the University of Waterloo in 1990 and look toward the next thirty years.
Stay tuned for more information in the upcoming months, including the call for papers, which should be released later this spring or summer.
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Mennonite/s Writing VIII: October 19-21, 2017
August 26, 2017Personal Narratives of Place and Displacement
AGES AND AGES HENCE: A Conservative Mennonite Woman's Secret Dreams of Education
A lovely essay and important-- "stories that are less likely to be told than the stories of women who found the courage to hurdle their barriers." Yes, the stories of the quiet women tend to be invisible in a culture looking for "women warriors."
Who's a Mennonite?
Dyan Cannon (originally Friesen) was a genuine Hollywood star and she was, with no doubt, "ours" - a Mennonite.
My wife Janice & I were in Tacoma a few years ago and next to our hotel was a hamburger joint called "Friesen Burgers". I thought I recalled that Ms Cannon was from the PacNW and a quick peek on Wikipedia confirmed that - a Tacoma mejal.
"Wow! FRIESEN Burgers. That has to be her family," we thought, in high-speed Mennonite game-think. We went to the place for supper and inquired about the name.
"Oh that," the waiter told us. "That was a mistake the sign-maker made. It was supposed to be 'Fries an' Burgers'. The owners liked it OK the way it was and so they just left it like that, rather than pay extra to have it changed."
Another Mennonitisch dream dashed on the rocks of the English (and a careless sign painter).
Three Poems from Unspoken: An Inheritance of Words
Love these. Thank you.