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    Katie Funk Wiebe memoir published

    June 2, 2009

    You 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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    Rudy Wiebe Wins Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award

    May 12, 2009

    Edmonton-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, 2009

    Shirley 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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    Watch out for that Mennonite in a Little Black Dress!

    January 31, 2009

    One of Henry Holt's lead titles for the fall of 2009 will be Rhoda Janzen's memoir entitled Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home. It's already made Publishers' Weekly, and it's being blurbed by the likes of Elizabeth Gilbert and Cynthia Kaplan.

    Stay tuned to the CMW news blog for more on this book in the coming year.

    Rhoda Janzen is an Associate Professor of English at Hope College, where she teaches American literature and creative writing. She lives in Allegan, Michigan. She is the author of Babel's Stair , a book of poems.

    http://www.word-press.com/janzen.html

    Rhoda …

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    Special Issue of CMW Journal on Yorifumi Yaguchi

    January 15, 2009

    The second issue of CMW Journal will be devoted to Yorifumi Yaguchi, acclaimed Japanese poet who is also a Mennonite lay pastor. Disillusioned with Buddhism as a force for peace in Japan, Yaguchi discovered Mennonite missionaries in Japan after World War II and was delighted to find a religion of peace. Subsequently, Yaguchi attended the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana during the 1960s, and became a Mennonite. While in the United States, he published several chapbooks of poetry with the Pinchpenny Press at Goshen College. Upon returning to Japan, he became an active lay pastor at a Mennonite …

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    Yorifumi Yaguchi Memoir Published

    November 15, 2008

    The 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 …