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The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews Wins Prize
December 2, 2008The Flying Troutmans , the latest novel by Miriam Toews, published by Knopf Canada in September 2008, won the 2008 Rogers Writer's Trust Fiction Prize.
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School of Writing at CMU announces Spring 2009 faculty
November 24, 2008The School of Writing at Canadian Mennonite University announces Spring 2009 faculty:
Poetry—Barbara Nickel
Intermediate Fiction—David Elias
Advanced Fiction—David Bergen
Creative Nonfiction—Myrna Kostash
Life Writing—Joanne Klassen & Eleanor ChornoboyFor more information & an application, visit http://www.cmu.ca/schoolofwriting or e-mail: SchoolofWriting@cmu.ca
The School of Writing at CMU is a program of CMU Continuing Education and the Department of English. In 2009 it will run from Monday to Friday, May 4-8. The School offers participatory workshops on writing Fiction (Advanced and Intermediate), Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction and Life Writing, along with one-on-one meetings with instructors. Participants will have opportunities to meet and learn …
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Yorifumi Yaguchi Memoir Published
November 15, 2008The Wing-Beaten Air: My Life and My Writing, a memoir by Yorifumi Yaguchi, has just been published by Good Books.
From the publisher:
Acclaimed Japanese poet, Yorifumi Yaguchi, has turned his writing attention to telling baldly what he experienced as a child growing up on the island of Honshu in the late 1930s and '40s.
His piercing and disarming prose takes us to his family's vegetable farm within earshot of the sea. We go with him to his grandfather's Buddhist temple, where Yaguchi discovered ninja stories and where the air was as clear as the temple bell that …
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Mennonite Writers at 2008 Vancouver Festival
October 21, 2008The fall 2008 Vancouver International Readers & Writers Festival (October 21-26) featured performances by Mennonite Writers David Bergen, Barbara Nickel, and Andreas Schroeder.
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Maurice Meirau publishes new poetry collection
October 1, 2008Maurice Mierau's second collection of poetry, Fear Not, was published in fall 2008 by Turnstone Press.
From the publisher's website:
Fear Not is lyrical, political, raunchy, blasphemous, and deeply engaged with ethical questions. Inspired by the Gideon Bible's list of self-help topics each poem is arranged to play off poetic and Biblical forms.
Ranging in subject from suicide to divorce, unemployment to gratitude, Afghanistan to Gethsemane, Fear Not attempts consolation, all the while mocking its own failure to lessen human pain.
Mierau also surveys contemporary culture, skewering our intense involvement with pop phenomena such as America's Next Top … -
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Jeff Gundy wins Midland Poetry Award
June 1, 2008Jeff Gundy's poetry collection, Spoken Among the Trees, won the Society of Midland Authors 2007 Poetry Award, given each year for the best book of poems in the 12-state Midwestern region of the United States.
Spoken Among the Trees is published by the University of Akron Press.
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Center for Mennonite Writing begins as Maple Scholars Project
January 1, 2008The Center for Mennonite Writing began to take shape on the web began as a Maple Scholar's project. Assitant Professor of English, Kyle Schlabach, mentored GC student Matthew J. Yoder as Yoder developed the design and web infrastructure for the site in the new web 2.0 environment. English Professor Ann Hostetler and Professor Emeritus Ervin Beck served as consultants to the project.
Read about the early stages of the project here:
http://www.goshen.edu/news/pressarchive/09-06-07-ms-matt-yoder.html