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2014 Cincinnati Mennonite Arts Weekend Presenters Announced
April 14, 2013Ah, spring. Don’t you wish you could bottle up that invigorating feeling the season inspires and crack it open on one of those bleak, waning days of winter? Well, it turns out—you can!
Next February, try this: Come to Cincinnati for the 2014 Mennonite Arts Weekend and enjoy a refreshing dose of creative inspiration.
You won’t want to miss the exciting lineup of artist-presenters, which includes:
The Steel Wheels—American Roots folk music
Eric Kaufmann—ceramic artist
Randall Stoltzfus—painter
Angie Clemens—music educator/song leader
Jean Janzen—poet
Kristina Glick—jewelry artist/metalsmith
Karen Thiessen—textile and mixed-media artist
Sarah Boyts Yoder—mixed-media painter
Judy Clemens—writer/novelist
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Critical Essays from Mennonite/s Writing VI in MQR
February 10, 2013The most recent issue of The Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2013, contains critical and scholarly essays from Mennonite/s Writing VI, the conference held at EMU in March 2012, by Ervin Beck, John J. Fisher, Ann Hostetler, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Jesse Nathan, Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Tiessen, as well as tributes to Ervin Beck, Omar Eby, Al Reimer, Elaine Sommers Rich, and Katie Funk Wiebe. For a table of contents and a link to the article by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, go to http://www.goshen.edu/mqr/pastissues/Jan13.html.
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Jane Rohrer featured in The American Poetry Review
January 17, 2013Jane Rohrer, author of Life after Death (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002), is featured in the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of The American Poetry Revew. A special supplement of twelve poems appears in this issue.
A poem by Todd Davis also appears in this issue of APR.
Congratulations to two fine Mennonite poets.
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Call For Creative Nonfiction-- Ruminate
January 1, 2013Ruminate Magazine is a premier literary magazine compatible with the mission and vision of CMW. Therefore we offer the following call for submissions.
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CALL FOR POEMS written “in the spirit of” William Stafford
November 16, 2012CALL FOR POEMS written “in the spirit of” William Stafford; that reflect on his life example and upcoming Centennial; that are challenged by his writing life & teaching philosophy; or that explore themes in which his work often wallowed.
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Seeking Rhubarb Subscriptions
October 29, 2012A Letter from Victor Enns, President of the Mennonite Literary Society:
Hello friends,
Time to pass the collection plate again to support the work of the Mennonite Literary Society (MLS) and Rhubarb magazine. Rhubarb’s May Manitoba Writing (#30) Issue has drawn good response, which we will publish in our next issue. Our next four themes are Money (#31), Sex (#32) Power and Politics (#33), and a special Mennonite Theatre (#34) issue, planned for next November.
With your help last year we were able to maintain Rhubarb in print and deliver issues on Mental Health (#27), Music (#28), Jews, Ukrainians and …
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The Juliet Stories Shortlisted for Governor General's Award
October 27, 2012Carrie Snyder's The Juliet Stories is one of five books shortlisted for this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction.
The Juliet Stories, released by House of Anansi Press in February, is Snyder's second published work. The Governor General's award is one of Canada's most prestigious prizes.
For more information about Snyder's award: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment /all/Vincent+among+authors+shortlisted+Governor+Generals/7331169/story.html
To read more about Snyder's reaction to the award, check out the October 2nd entry on her blog, Obscure CanLit Mama: http://carrieannesnyder.blogspot.ca/2012/10/on-juliet-stories-being-nominated-for.html
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Dora Dueck Launches New Collection of Short Stories
October 10, 2012What You Get at Home is Dora Dueck's brand new collection of short stories, released in October through Turnstone Press.
From the author's website:
"Full of longing and melancholy, the stories in What You Get at Home find comfort and understanding in the unlikeliest of places. In “The Rocking Chair” a piece of furniture simultaneously divides a family and heals old wounds. The narrator in the title story finds a sense of belonging and purpose in a small pool of light and her favourite book. In “Chopsticks” a piano in a personal care home reminds a woman of the sense …
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Zombie Novel, Husk, Released in October
October 10, 2012Cited as a top fall read by the Toronto Sun, Husk by Canadian Mennonite writer Corey Redekop, is coming out in October, just in time for Halloween.
From the AmazonBooks review:
Outlandish and emotional, this humorous novel centers on Sheldon Funk, a struggling actor who dies in a bus restroom only to awaken during his autopsy and attack the coroner. Fleeing into the wintry streets of Toronto, Sheldon realizes he’s now a zombie—as if he didn’t have enough on his plate already. His last audition, reading for the reality television series House Bingo, had gone disastrously wrong. His mother is …
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Priscilla Stuckey Releases New Book of Essays
October 10, 2012In her first book, Kissed by A Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature, Priscilla Stuckey meditates on her encounters with the natural world. Originally trained in religous studies and feminist theory, Stuckey gathered material for her book from first-hand experiences with land conservation and observation in her home states of California, Arizona, and Colorado.
Just recently released in August, the book has already recieved high praise. Publisher's Weekly was among the first to review Kissed by A Fox: "Through a tenderly woven collection of essays that blend personal reflections with spirituality, philosophy, animal behaviorism, evolution, geology and …