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Future Issues and Calls for Submissions
July 16, 2010Would you like to see your work in our Journal? Here is a preview of upcoming issues with submission deadlines. We will occasionally insert special features into forthcoming issues, such as a featured poet or a book review or a report on a special event. As always, we appreciate your emails updating us on publications and other literary events. Electronic submission only to cmw@goshen.edu, include a brief bio that mentions your interest in or connection to Mennonites, and attach the submission as a word document. This is a tentative list, subject to change and adjustment.
September 2010 -- In ...
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Summer Reading Issue!
July 16, 2010Ever wondered what was really in those Amish romance and mysteries? Or why they've become such a cultural phenomenon? Recent press in the publishing industry reports that "bonnet fiction" is outselling "chick lit," and that serial genre fiction on Amish and Mennonite themes is a growth market on an otherwise dismal publishing scene for fiction.
In the current issue of the Journal of CMW, edited by Ervin Beck, read excerpts of new work by mystery writer Judy Clemens and science fiction writer Karl Schoeder, as well as lively analyses of mystery and romance fiction by Beth Graybill, Kyle Schlabach ...
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Former Goshen College President J. Lawrence Burkholder dies
June 24, 2010In 1971 Burkholder left the Ivy League to lead the small college in Northern Indiana he knew intimately. He returned to Goshen College to serve as its 11th president with the conviction that "Mennonites had something to contribute to the world, and I wanted to be part of it," he said.
Burkholder, who served as president until 1984, began his presidency with a simple religious service and the planting of 138 trees around campus. "I wanted to bring beauty to a campus that seemed somewhat barren," he said. "And I hoped to soften and humanize the image of the ...
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Inspiration for Mennonite Writers
June 24, 2010Old news for Mennonite writers from John Updike in 1951: "We do not need men like Proust and Joyce; men like this are a luxury, an aded fillip that an abundant culture can produce only after the more basic literary need has been filled. This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not transcend the limits of their age, but, working within the times, bring what is peculiar to the moment to glory. We need great artists who are willing to accept restrictions, and who ...
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Di Brandt wins Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism in Canada
June 21, 2010
Wider Boundaries of Daring:
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Di Brandt, editor, and Barbara Godard, editorPublished by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
has won the
2009 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary
Criticism in Canadasee: http://www.brandonu.ca/app/news/home/home-20100610-001.html?uri=%2Fnews%2Findex.html
Chasing the Bonnet
Poetry Feature: Six Poems
Poetry Feature: Six Poems