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Conrad Grebel Lecture Series Highlights 50 Years of Mennonite Writing
March 18, 2012This spring Hildi Froese Tiessen, Professor of English and Peace Studies at the University of Waterloo, Conrad Grebel University College, organized a series of nine lectures celebrating fifty years of Mennonite Writing in Canada. To see the series and browse the titles of the presentations, see the program on the University of Waterloo website.
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From Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball
March 17, 2012Todd Davis has just edited a new essay collection that brings together two subjects dear to his heart: basketball and the poetic eye. Published by Michigan State University Press, From Fast Break to Line Break includes essays by a variety of poets from Stephen Dunn and Quincy Troupe to Mennonite-connected writers Jeff Gundy, Mary Linton, and Davis himself, author of three poetry collections and whose poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac. You can hear Davis read his poem at the publisher's website.
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Joanna Wiebe's BIRTH MOTHER, a memoir, just published
January 21, 2012Joanna Wiebe's memoir, BIRTH MOTHER, has just been published as an ebook or kindle download on amazon.com.
BIRTH MOTHER is a memoir about Wiebe's experience of giving up her son for adoption in 1969. It's also a travel book, a coming of age story, and a Mennonite memoir with recipes.
From the amazon.com description:
Six years ago Joanna gave up her baby son for adoption. Now it's Christmas 1975, and she longs to celebrate with her rural Kansas Mennonite family, but the relationships are tense as they struggle to understand:
• why, after having a baby out of wedlock, …
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Julia Spicher Kasdorf poem set to music and performed in New York
January 18, 2012Five Boroughs Song Book Concert features Kasdorf poem "On Leaving Brooklyn," set to music by Yotam Haber. Reviewed in The New York Times on January 16, 2012.
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Shirley Showalter's e-book on writing memoir
January 17, 2012Shirley Showalter, creator of "1oo Memoirs," a blog with reviews and discussions of memoir, has created a new personal blog that includes a free download of her new e-book, How to Write a Memoir that Sings. To get inspired to write your own memoir, visit www.shirleyshowalter.com
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New Novel by David Elias just published!
January 16, 2012For the Sake of Rose, David Elias's latest novel, takes up where Sunday
Afternoon left off. This book is published as an ebook and is available as
a download from buzzwordbooks.comMartha Wiebe has gone on her annual trip to get away from life in the small rural community where she's lived all her life. This time, she finds herself in Dallas, Texas. It's November 22, 1963, about noon ...
This new e-novel by Canadian author David Elias opens this way:
For The Sake Of Rose
Author's note:
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Mennonite Arts Weekend in Cincinnati, Feb 3-5
January 15, 2012Save if you register by January 15!
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Best of 2011 - Doug Reed wins acclaim in Madison, Wisconsin
January 7, 2012Author of “The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker,” Doug Reed has been winning acclaim in Madison, Wisconsin for his witty Fakespearian comedy that played to sold out houses this fall. The Wisconsin State Journal recently named his play as a top event in 2011.
Here he talks about playwriting and community involvement in The Wisconsin State Journal.
Check out the review of "The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker" by James Juhnke in the January 2012 issue of the JCMW.
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50 Years of Mennonite/s Writing in Canada
December 13, 2011Conrad Grebel University College Spring Lecture series.
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Boneyard, a novel by Stephen Beachy published
November 19, 2011Published in October, Boneyard by Stephen Beachy was recently reviewed in the San Francisco Weekly. A postmodern rendering of the Nickel Mines School shooting, told in the voice of a disturbed Amish boy named Jake Yoder, who is not actually Jake Yoder, Boneyard explores questions of narrative. When asked to describe his fiction, Beachy calls it a "collaboration." Beachy teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. His first novel The Whistling Song, was published by W. W. Norton in 1991. His second novel, Distortion, was republished in 2010 by Rebel Satori Press.