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The sixth in a series of conferences on Mennonite writing held since 1990, this conference will feature a performance of “Back to Berlin” by award-winning Canadian Mennonite playwright Vern Thiessen and a reading and lecture on ethics and aesthetics by Charlottesville, Va., poet Greg Orr. A growing list of writers will read their work: Katherine Arnoldi, Stephen Raleigh Byler, Todd Davis, Dora Dueck, Jeff Gundy, Jean Janzen, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Keith Ratzlaff, Sofia Samatar, David Waltner-Toews, and Rudy Wiebe. The festival program includes readings, scholarly paper presentations, writing workshops, performances, book-signings, a panel on theopoetics, feasting, and networking. The conference is open to all scholars, writers, and readers, Mennonite, MennoNot, and Menno-curious alike.

The conference is co-sponsored by Conrad Grebel University College and supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Marpeck Foundation.

Find more program information and register by Friday, March 16 at www.emu.edu/mennos-writing: Regular, $120; Senior, $85; Student, $45. Early registration discount through February 3: Regular, $100; Senior, $75; Student, $35. Registration includes Saturday evening banquet.