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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 … -
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Call for Submissions - Rhubarb Special Issue
March 17, 2011RHUBARB MAGAZINE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR JEWISH, UKRAINIAN, MENNONITE
SPECIAL ISSUE
Rhubarb magazine is soliciting submissions from writers and artists who self-identify as being of Jewish, Ukrainian, or Mennonite cultural heritage for a special issue to be published in spring 2012. It’s been a century or more since our ancestors came to North America. We share much in our common history: emigration in the face of oppression, pride of community, marginalization within the mainstream. We also acknowledge tensions among our communities. This issue will explore how the writing and art we now make expresses both these commonalities and differences.
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Call for Submissions - Mennonite Mothering
March 12, 2011CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter Press
is seeking submissions for an edited collection on
MENNONITE MOTHERING
Co-Editors: Rachel Epp Buller and Kerry Fast
Publication Date: 2012/2013Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2011!
This collection of scholarly essays will explore the connections between mothering / motherhood and Mennonite religion and culture, broadly defined. There are thriving Mennonite communities in Canada and the United States as well as in many pockets of Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Religious traditions, cultural stereotypes, and societal (mis)perceptions all contribute to varied understanding of maternal roles in Mennonite life. Rhoda Janzen's bestselling memoir, Mennonite … -
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Mennonites Don't Dance nominated for a Commonwealth Award
February 16, 2011Mennonites Don't Dance by Darcie Hossack Friesen of Kelowna, BC has been nominated for a Commonwealth first book award for books published in Canada and the Carribean. The book is published by Thistledown Press.
Read more about it here:
http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/10/adderson-hodgins-and-selecky-among-commonwealth-prize-nominees/
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Cynthia Yoder's Divine Purpose published
January 31, 2011Cynthia Yoder, author of the memoir Crazy Quilt: Pieces of a Mennonite Life, has developed a career helping others find their stories. To this end, she recently published Divine Purpose, a workbook for those who are engaged in the process of uncovering "soul."
To read more about Cynthia Yoder's books see http://www.cynthiayoder.com/books.html