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    Call for Submissions - Rhubarb Special Issue

    March 17, 2011

    RHUBARB 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.

    GUEST …

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    Call for Submissions - Mennonite Mothering

    March 12, 2011

    CALL FOR PAPERS
    Demeter Press
    is seeking submissions for an edited collection on

    MENNONITE MOTHERING

    Co-Editors: Rachel Epp Buller and Kerry Fast
    Publication Date: 2012/2013

    Deadline 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, 2011

    Mennonites 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, 2011

    Cynthia 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

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    New Publication – Storage Issues by Suzanne Kay Miller

    January 31, 2011


    Storage Issues, poetry by Suzanne Kay Miller written between 1988 and 2008, reflects on being a Mennonite woman in a modern world. The work is part of the DreamSeeker Poetry Series produced by the Cascadia Publishing House, and can be ordered from Cascadia, Amazon, Barnes and Noble , or your local bookstore.

    From the publisher:

    Storage Issues pictures an individual wandering through the remains of communal life. These personal lyric and narrative poems search for meaning in the background, events, and concerns of one Mennonite woman’s existence. The poems invoke archetypal help and seek elemental order, but they …

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    New Publication – Face to Face: A Poetry Collection by Julie Cadwallader-Staub

    January 31, 2011

    This is Julie Cadawallader-Staub’s first published collection of poetry, much of which has appeared in numerous journals and programs, including Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. The eighth volume in the Cascadia Publishing House’s DreamSeeker Poetry Series, Cadawallader-Staub’s book can be purchased at the publisher’s website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and many other bookstores.

    From the Publisher:

    In this riveting collection of poems, Julie Cadwallader-Staub invites the reader to experience the exquisitely tender as well as brutally difficult realities of living with someone dying of cancer.Face to Facehonestly and gracefully describes her journey through the …

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    Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords research on Mennonites

    January 18, 2011

    Gabrielle Gifford wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College on Old Colony Mennonites and received a Fulbright in 1994 to spend a year in Mexico with the group.

    Read the story in The Mennonite Weekly Review:

    http://www.mennoweekly.org/2011/1/24/rep-giffords-keenly-interested-mennonites/

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    Call for Submissions - Rhubarb Special Issue

    November 16, 2010

    Rhubarb Magazine is publishing a special issue on Mental Illness/Mental Health in June 2011. The issue will be guest edited by Ted Dyck, the Editor of Transition Magazine published by the Saskatchewan Chapter of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Ted has published widely and served as the chief editor of the literary magazine GRAIN for three years.

    We are looking for visual art, fiction, poetry, nonfiction including memoir, by and about and persons with experience of mental health/illnmess issues. The deadline for submissions is January 30, 2011, sent directly to venns@mts.net. Only electronic submissions will be accepted, as …

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    New from Todd Davis

    November 9, 2010

    Household of Water, Moon and Snow: The Thoreau Poems, a chapbook by Todd Davis, has just been released by Seven Kitchens Press in a limited edition.

    To order your copy and read a poem from the collection go to:

    http://sevenkitchenspress.wordpress.com/our-authors/todd-davis-household-of-water-moon-snow/

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    Rudy Wiebe Short Stories --Just Published

    November 8, 2010

    Just published: "Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010" by the
    University of Alberta Press," 528 pp., $39.95. Introduction by
    Thomas Wharton. "For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend
    Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through
    his oeuvre of world-renowled novels, histories, essays, and short
    stories. He has introduced generations of readers far and wide to
    western Canadian Mennonite, aborginal, and settler culture. This
    volume contains the fifty short stories that Wiebe completed between
    1955 and 2010, including four previously unpublished stories."