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Joanna Wiebe's BIRTH MOTHER, a memoir, just published

January 21, 2012

Joanna Wiebe's memoir, BIRTH MOTHER, has just been published as an ebook or kindle download on amazon.com.

BIRTH MOTHER is a memoir about Wiebe's experience of giving up her son for adoption in 1969. It's also a travel book, a coming of age story, and a Mennonite memoir with recipes.

From the amazon.com description:

Six years ago Joanna gave up her baby son for adoption. Now it's Christmas 1975, and she longs to celebrate with her rural Kansas Mennonite family, but the relationships are tense as they struggle to understand:

• why, after having a ...
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Julia Spicher Kasdorf poem set to music and performed in New York

January 18, 2012

Five Boroughs Song Book Concert features Kasdorf poem "On Leaving Brooklyn," set to music by Yotam Haber. Reviewed in The New York Times on January 16, 2012.
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Shirley Showalter's e-book on writing memoir

January 17, 2012

Shirley Showalter, creator of "1oo Memoirs," a blog with reviews and discussions of memoir, has created a new personal blog that includes a free download of her new e-book, How to Write a Memoir that Sings. To get inspired to write your own memoir, visit www.shirleyshowalter.com
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New Novel by David Elias just published!

January 16, 2012

For the Sake of Rose, David Elias's latest novel, takes up where Sunday
Afternoon left off. This book is published as an ebook and is available as
a download from buzzwordbooks.com

Martha Wiebe has gone on her annual trip to get away from life in the small rural community where she's lived all her life. This time, she finds herself in Dallas, Texas. It's November 22, 1963, about noon ...

This new e-novel by Canadian author David Elias opens this way:

For The Sake Of Rose

Author's note:

A close examination of the grainy film footage ...
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Mennonite Arts Weekend in Cincinnati, Feb 3-5

January 15, 2012

Save if you register by January 15!
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Best of 2011 - Doug Reed wins acclaim in Madison, Wisconsin

January 7, 2012

Author of “The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker,” Doug Reed has been winning acclaim in Madison, Wisconsin for his witty Fakespearian comedy that played to sold out houses this fall. The Wisconsin State Journal recently named his play as a top event in 2011.

Here he talks about playwriting and community involvement in The Wisconsin State Journal.

Check out the review of "The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker" by James Juhnke in the January 2012 issue of the JCMW.
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50 Years of Mennonite/s Writing in Canada

December 13, 2011

Conrad Grebel University College Spring Lecture series.
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Boneyard, a novel by Stephen Beachy published

November 19, 2011

Published in October, Boneyard by Stephen Beachy was recently reviewed in the San Francisco Weekly. A postmodern rendering of the Nickel Mines School shooting, told in the voice of a disturbed Amish boy named Jake Yoder, who is not actually Jake Yoder, Boneyard explores questions of narrative. When asked to describe his fiction, Beachy calls it a "collaboration." Beachy teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. His first novel The Whistling Song, was published by W. W. Norton in 1991. His second novel, Distortion, was republished in 2010 by Rebel Satori Press.
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VIMY, a play by Vern Thiessen, gets rave reviews

November 19, 2011

VIMY, a play about six canadian soldiers in World War I, is being produced to acclaim in various places in Canada and around the world. The poetic drama is set in a hospital behind the front during the battle of Vimy Ridge and the soldiers represent a cross-section of Canadian culture. The Ottawa production at the National Arts Centre opened on November 11 and runs through December 11. The Firehall Arts Center production in Vancouver just ended on November 19, to rave reviews. The photo below is of the Firehall Arts Center production and was published in the Vancouver Courier.
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Updated Information for Mennonite/s Writing VI

November 16, 2011

Mennonite/s Writing VI: Solos and Harmonies, March 29-April 1, 2012, Eastern Mennonite University

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