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Purpose Magazine: Call for Submissions
July 14, 2009Purpose is a monthly magazine published by Mennonite Publishing Network
(MPN) for all adult members and attendees of Mennonite Church Canada and
Mennonite Church USA congregations.
Purpose features short first person anecdotal stories and verse that
encourages Christians in their daily discipleship walk. Mennonite authors are
strongly encouraged to offer their stories. Most writings are selected from
free lance submissions. Writings are purchased on a one-time rights basis.
Send electronic submissions to horsch@mpn.net.
Writer guidelines and monthly themes are available on the MPN
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Mennonites on the New York Stage
June 23, 2009
Three Mennonite-related stage productions caught the attention of theatre critics in New York City in the Spring of 2009: Vern Thiessen’s one-act play “A More Perfect Union” by the Epic Theater Ensemble; the musical Everyday Rapture by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan by the Second Stage Theater; and Jessica Dickey’s The Amish Project at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
Thiessen’s two-character play, which ran through June 7, is “a story of race, religion, sex, plagiarism, politics, pregnancy and nuns” that New York Times theater critic Anita Gates found “stolid, static.”
Sheri Renee Scott starred in her own play about stardom, which … -
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Katie Funk Wiebe memoir published
June 2, 2009You Never Gave Me a Name: One Mennonite Woman's Story by Katie Funk Wiebe
Published June 15, 2009 by Dreamseeker books. 284 pp. $15.95
Publisher's Description:
"I loved this book," says Dora Dueck, writer and editor, who is author of several books and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada (Wiley, 2008). "This is Katie's life, her name, her harvest of work and discovery. But something wonderful happened as I read what she shares so honestly and well: I saw my own story--and felt it good, and safer again, to be a writer, pilgrim, woman …
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Elise Hofer Derstine wins 2nd Place in Larry Neal Writer's Competition
May 26, 2009Elise Hofer Derstine, a 2004 graduate of Goshen College, won second place in the Larry Neal Writers' Competition sponsored by the Washington, DC Commission on the Art and Humanities. Derstine won the award for three unpublished poems submitted in the adult poetry division. Last year Derstine won third place in the same division of the competition. For further information about the Larry Neal Awards, see http://dcarts.dc.gov/dcarts/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=528384
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A Hundred Camels: A Mission Doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial in Somalia
May 19, 2009
Just Published by Cascadia:
A Hundred Camels: A Doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial in Somalia
by Gerald L. Miller, M.D. and Shari Miller Wagner
Available: June2009
Pages: 228
Prices: $13.95US/$14.95Can.
ISBN 13:978-1-931038-54-6As this suspenseful, true-life drama of a doctor's trial for a patient's murder unfolds, readersare given access to an ancient, clan-based culture few Americans have experienced in a country recently declared by the United Nations as a humanitarian crisis “worse than Darfur.”
"This vivid, compelling story becomes a vehicle of beauty—the kind that wounds as we recognize our own fears and prejudices but also the beauty of a …
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Rudy Wiebe Wins Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award
May 12, 2009Edmonton-Celebrated Canadian author and U of A professor emeritus Rudy Wiebe has added another award to his long list of accolades, winning a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award.
"My parents, with their five children, arrived in Didsbury, Alberta, as penniless refugees from the Soviet Union in March 1930, and they could not dream that a child of theirs would ever become a writer, published and read in many parts of the world," said Wiebe.
"But this magnificent country, Canada, our home, gave me that opportunity, helped me to explore my crazy ideas, my place, my ancestors-wherever I found …
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Shirley Showalter Wins Memoir Prize
May 2, 2009Shirley Showalter won First Prize from the Kalamazoo Journal for the best memoir or piece of creative non-fiction submitted in 2009. Read her essay at
http://www.mlive.com/special-sections/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/03/my_mothers_pulpit_memoircreati.html
Showalter will have another essay in the upcoming issue of CMW Journal, to be released on or about May 15, 2009.
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Yaguchi poetry featured in "For a Beautiful Planet"
April 24, 2009Thirteen poems by Yorifumi Yaguchi have appeared in the anthology "For a Beautiful Planet: Voices from Contemporary Sixteen Poets of Japan, 2009" published in 2009 in Osaka by Chikurinkan. Two of the poems--"The Earthquake" and "When the Earthquake"--are based on incidents during his recent visit to China, as reported in Wilbur Birky's journal in Issue 2 of the CMW journal.
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Jean Janzen's latest collection of poetry published
April 24, 2009Jean Janzen’s latest poetry book, Paper House , has recently been published by Good Books.
"Her refusal to turn aside from any difficulty, any loss, here presses her writing into firmer edges than ever before . . . . She brings longing to every page, and then calls us in, gently, yet irresistibly." From the publisher
Jean Janzen is the author of seven collections of poetry, and a book of essays on the creative process, Elements of Faithful Writing. She lives in Fresno, California. Janzen received an Artist's Award from the National Endowment of the Arts. She has also authored … -
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"Dinner . . ." by Jesse Nathan just released
April 24, 2009Jesse Nathan has just published a chapbook with Milk Machine Press in Oakland, California. This limited edition of 250 copies, is accompanied by a CD with Nathan’s readings of the poems in concert with original compositions by Chris Janzen . The book contains seventeen poems - one poem for each guest at a dinner party thrown by our gracious host, Virginia Woolf. The chapbook is entitled:
Dinner, or A Deranged Event Staged in a Theoretical Mansion in Which Time and History Have Been Grossly Dismembered and What We Know as the Laws of Physics Wildly Subverted, Conducted as an Inquiry …