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Thanks and Welcome
May 16, 2011The Center for Mennonite Writing wishes to thank Adriel Santiago, our technology intern for the past two years, for his exemplary service and to congratulate him on his graduation from Goshen College. Kudos are due to him for his senior theater recital, "Hephzibah," a dramatic rendition of the Book of Revelation, complete with aerial silk acrobatics, a skill which he learned from YouTube. Clearly, managing the CMW was not his only technological feat. We wish you well, Adriel. Keep in Touch.
The Center for Mennonite Writing wishes to welcome our summer Intern, Sara Wakefield, a 2011 graduate of Goshen College …
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Ruminate Magazine is Seeking Submissions for Poetry Prize and Upcoming Issue
May 11, 2011RUMINATE Magazine has another exciting opportunity coming up. They are currently seeking submissions for the annual Janet McCabe Poetry Prize with an award of $1000 to the winning poet. The deadline to submit poetry is May 15. Ruminate is also now accepting submissions of nonfiction, short fiction, and artwork for Issue 21 with a deadline of May 15.
http://www.ruminatemagazine.org
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Dora Dueck wins McNally Robinson Award
April 19, 2011Dora Dueck has won the McNally Robinson Award for best Manitoba book of the year, for her novel, This Hidden Thing, published by Canadian Mennonite University Press.
Read more here:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/mennonite-writers-dominate-book-gala-120048154.html
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David Bergen wins two top Mantioba Book Awards for The Matter with Morris
April 19, 2011David Bergen,well-known Winnipeg novelist, won the $5,000 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the $3,500 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction for his novel The Matter With Morris, about a newspaper columnist mourning the death of his soldier son in Afghanistan.
Read more here: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/mennonite-writers-dominate-book-gala-120048154.html
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The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, a new play by Armin Wiebe
April 15, 2011has opened to raves from audiences in Winnipeg.
Read about it in the Detroit Free Press:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/a-play-theyll-enjoy-manitobans-will-119526554.html
The play has also just been published by Scirocco Drama ISBN 978-1-897289-60-0.
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Irma Voth -- New novel by Miriam Toews
April 9, 2011Miriam Toews has written a new novel, set among the Old Colony Mennonites in Mexico. Irma Voth is a young single mother living in a trailer on the edge of the community, who encounters a film crew making a movie . . . a situation that grows out of Toews' own experience filming "Silent Light," the Cannes Award-Winning film by diretor Carlos Reygada.
Read a review of the book by Jane Smiley in the Toronto Globe and Mail at
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/irma-voth-by-miriam-toews/article1976868/
And a story about Toews in the same issue at
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/miram-toews-its-a-mennonite-thing/article1976953/page2/
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David Bergen's novel, The Matter with Morris, up for two Manitoba Awards
March 29, 2011David Bergen's most recent novel, The Matter with Morris (2010), has been shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and the Margaret Laurence Award for fiction. The winners of these and other Manitoba Book Awards will be announced on April 17th. The Matter with Morris, Bergen's sixth novel, was also shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in November 2010.
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Mennonite/s Writing: New Conference Announced!
March 23, 2011Mennonite/s Writing VI: Solos and Harmonies. The sixth international Mennonite Writing conference since 1990 will take place Thursday, March 29- Sunday, April 1, 2012 at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va. Watch for a call for papers this fall. Contacts: Julia Kasdorf <jmk28@psu.edu> or Kirsten Beachy <beachyk@emu.edu
For location and directions see:http://www.emu.edu/mennos-writing/
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Dora Dueck's Novel "This Hidden Thing" nominated for two Manitoba book awards
March 23, 2011CMU Press is pleased to announce that Dora Dueck’s novel, This Hidden Thing, has been nominated for two Manitoba Book Awards: the McNally Robinson Book of the Year award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. Published in 2010 as Dueck’s second novel, This Hidden Thing explores the story of Maria, a Russian Mennonite woman adjusting to life in Winnipeg from the 1920s up to the 1970s.
Sue Sorensen of CMU Press and the CMU Department of English served as the editor for Dueck’s novel, and she had this to say about the news: “I wish I could say I’m …
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Di Brandt's Walking to Mojacar shortlisted for two awards
March 21, 2011
Di Brandt's new poetry collection, Walking to Mojacar, with French and Spanish translations by Charles Leblanc and Ari Belathar (Turnstone 2010) has been shortlisted for both the McNally Robinson Manitoba Best Book of the Year Award and the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher. The awards will be announced at a ceremony in Winnipeg on April 17.
Walking to Mojacar is available at good bookstores everywhere, or can be ordered directly
from Turnstone Press at www.turnstonepress.com, (204) 947-1555.
Di Brandt is the author of six poetry collections, including questions i asked my mother (1987), Agnes in …