CMU Press has been blessed with many great student assistants and university & high school students doing work-integrated-learning. Here's our scrapbook honouring (from Met Schools) Emma & Felipio; and (from CMU) Phil, Manuela, Logan, Javier, Daisy, Helen, Owen & Chelsea. Couldn't do it without you.

Saturday! Part of Thin Air, the Winnipeg International Writers' Festival. Come for the *Made in Manitoba Book Fair* and all the readings & activity -- including a reading from John Weier's New & Selected Poems at noon in the auditorium at Winnipeg Public Library's Millennium branch.

We just sent a bundle of free "early reviewer" e-books of new CMU Press titles to recipients who entered their names on the @librarything.com website. This happens with a whole lot of books of all kinds every month. Check out offerings from So Many Publishers! #BOOKSKY www.librarything.com/ner

We are delighted to announce our next book of poetry, *Sightings by Patrick Friesen* With an afterword by Nathan Dueck. @nathandueck.bsky.social Cover by Marijke Friesen. @marijkefriesen.bsky.social Coming soon. #booksky

*New Review* #BOOKSKY In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism, edited by Robert Zacharias In The Miramichi Reader, reviewed by Alison Manley @alisonburnis.bsky.social Read on! miramichireader.ca/2025/08/in-s...

On September 29 at Luther College at the University of Regina,The Very Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne @revviec.bsky.social will deliver the Luther Lecture -- "Turning Ourselves Inside Out For Each Other: Why Intercultural Ministry Matters." And here's her brand new Book: order from your local indie!

Spotted in the wild at The Forks today! IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION: KEY TEXTS IN MENNONITE LITERARY CRITICISM edited by Robert Zacharias. We ❤️ @mcnallyrobinson.com !

Carmen Lansdowne: WEARING A BROKEN INDIGENE HEART is about "the ways that Christian mission could be more life-giving, justice-centred, and inclusive if we approach it from traditional Indigenous ways of being." Support Indigenous sellers like Strong Nations: www.strongnations.com/store/11917/...

Some photos from the recent Mennonite/s Writing X conference held at CMU are now posted at www.cmu.ca/mennonites-w... along with video of two of the keynote addresses. Have a look.

August is #WomenInTranslationMonth! We celebrate WONDER-WORK: Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (illus 1). Greiffenberg was a noteworthy German-language poet of the 17th century, matched here with vibrant translations by Joanne Epp (illus 2) Sally Ito (3) & Sarah Klassen (4).

want to be part of this swell cultural project? YOU can donate to CMU Press ! it will definitely not go into my pocket because I don't really get paid to do this (except for the equivalent of one course) GO TO www.cmu.ca/give & put "CMU Press" in the "Other" box thanks for listening to my sue talk

during the pandemic, I took on the direction of my university's academic press w/ 1 course release (!) CMU Press is mostly me + lovely student assistants + great freelance designers & editors + some wonderful, patient authors I realize that I've now published 12 books! for @cmupress-ca.bsky.social

Shopping for Canadian books by Canadian publishers? Look for this seal! Thanks to the Association of Canadian Publishers @cdnpublishers.bsky.social for this welcome campaign helping us to promote and celebrate Canadian-made books.

Now available! from United Church moderator The Rt. Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne. (For a few more days! Then she will be The Very Rev. Dr. @revviec.bsky.social.) Tell your local independent bookstore to order it! From her Introduction: "My work always attempts to be in touch with the love it names."

CMU Press is very pleased to be part of the Certified Canadian Publisher program initiated by The Association of Canadian Publishers @cdnpublishers.bsky.social! 🎉 #booksky

Read all about the recent Mennonite/s Writing conference, the tenth of its kind, hosted by the English Department at Canadian Mennonite University, in this @anabaptistworld.bsky.social article by Eileen Kinch. (Eileen Kinch photo) anabaptistworld.org/writers-celebrate-broaden-their-craft/

Wondering where you can pick up United Church of Canada moderator The Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne's new book? Please shop indie! We do know that WEARING A BROKEN INDIGENE HEART ON THE SLEEVE OF CHRISTIAN MISSION is definitely at the CMU bookstore CommonWord: www.commonword.ca/ResourceView...

It's here! from @revviec.bsky.social ! WEARING A BROKEN INDIGENE HEART ON THE SLEEVE OF CHRISTIAN MISSION by Carmen Lansdowne. Proudly displayed by CMU Press director @suesorensen.bsky.social #booksky

WEARING A BROKEN INDIGENE HEART ON THE SLEEVE OF CHRISTIAN MISSION is at the printer! We are so honoured to publish this crucial book of Indigenous intercultural Christian theology by @unitedchurchcda.bsky.social moderator Carmen Lansdowne @revviec.bsky.social. Thank you, Carmen, for trusting us.

Now available: IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION -- a must-have resource for every school, university, and public library, for scholars of Mennonite literature and culture, and frankly for anyone and everyone with an interest in Mennonite writers in North America. www.cmu.ca/cmu-press

As we celebrate the publication of the Robert Zacharias-edited volume IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION: KEY TEXTS IN MENNONITE LITERARY CRITICISM, we warmly commend this list of influential Mennonite books that have enriched Canada's cultural scene.

Missed the launch of our latest book, IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION: KEY TEXTS IN MENNONITE LITERARY CRITICISM, edited by Robert Zacharias? You can still view the June 12 launch on the Youtube channel of @mcnallyrobinson.com. A fascinating event! www.youtube.com/live/izMqRCh... #booksky

Dora Dueck's thoughtful assessment of the Mennonite/s Writing conference (young people! so many books! beautiful campus!) at CMU this weekend.

more highlights of the Mennonite/s Writing Ten conference at CMU this weekend

some highlights of the Mennonite/s Writing Ten conference at CMU this weekend

Happy Father's Day. We firmly believe that what your Dad wants is a 736-page book of Mennonite literary criticism. #booksky

Our new book In Search of a Mennonite Imagination is only two days old but we have already been satirized by the @ungerreview.bsky.social. Love it! www.ungerreview.com/forklift-enl...

In Search of a Mennonite Imagination is launched! Thanks to @mcnallyrobinson.com & editor Robert Zacharias. Wow. And look at the MennoLit luminaries! 1.Robert Zacharias. 2:Casey Plett. 3.Di Brandt. 4.Paul Tiessen ...&

Tomorrow at 7 pm! This is going to be a great launch. Everyone's invited to @mcnallyrobinson.com (or check out their website for livestream if you're not in Winnipeg). THEN, you're all invited back to Marpeck Commons at CMU for a reception after the launch. Spread the word! #booksky

Less than a week away! Mennonite/s Writing X is going to be a great conference and you can still register -- or come to one of the free evening events. CMU Press books having a bit of a splash on Friday evening in Marpeck Commons. Go to cmu.ca/mennonites-writing for more information.

Yesterday we delivered these @highwaterpress.bsky.social books to Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba to wrap up our 50th birthday event. We did BUY ONE, GIVE ONE this winter via CMU's CommonWord, and this crop of lovely local books will go to children in newly settled refugee families. #booksky

Thanks to all who took part in BUY ONE, GIVE ONE, marking our 50th year of book publishing. This tower of dictionaries was purchased with the help of a donor, while CMU's CommonWord supplied them at cost. Today we delivered them to the John Howard Society of MB for their prison literacy initiatives.

In celebration of the forthcoming collection of Mennonite literary criticism edited by Robert Zacharias, *In Search of a Mennonite Imagination* CMU Press director @suesorensen.bsky.social wrote an appreciation of Mennonite books for @49thshelf.bsky.social. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/06...

take a moment to consider climate around the world and especially the importance of ice in our polar regions -- by way of *ICE: Moments, Photographs by Klaus Hochheim* -- in this profile at @49thshelf.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/07...

Posted @withregram • @cmuwpg 🌈CMU Queer (CMQ), alongside 13 Mennonite churches & communities will be at Sunday's Winnipeg Pride events. CMU supports 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion, belonging, and celebration within our campus and beyond. Let’s continue building a community of welcome, affirmation, and love.

Celebrating 50 years of CMU Press: Buy One, Give One has wrapped! When you bought our books at CMU's CommonWord, we chose a book by another Canadian publisher to give to MCC & John Howard Society. Books go to newly settled refugee families while the dictionaries are for prison literacy initiatives.

Coming this summer from United Church of Canada Moderator The Rt. Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne @revviec.bsky.social Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission. We are so pleased to be doing this book. 🖤🤍♥️💛

So many book giveaways on the Association of Canadian Publishers' @49thshelf.bsky.social !! 📚🍁📖 Including some lovely new CMU Press titles. Sign up for a chance to win ⤵️ 49thshelf.com/Giveaways

Come celebrate with us! Mark your calendars for the launch of IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION, edited by Robert Zacharias of @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. This mighty collection of literary criticism will land at @mcnallyrobinson.com in Winnipeg Thurs June 12 at 7 pm. Livestream and in-person.🎉

"Wow, what a book!" - C.S., Winnipeg The excitement is building. 😀

So pleased to show off the cover of In Search of a Mennonite Imagination! This book is literally the A to Z of 150 years of writing about Mennonite literature. Thanks to editor Robert Zacharias, cover designer Jonathan Dyck, project manager Katie Doke Sawatzky & layout designer Galley Creative Co.

It’s the Literary Press Group of Canada’s 50th anniversary! The LPG @lpgcanada.bsky.social has championed independent Canadian literary publishers through sales, marketing, and other vital supports for five decades. Thank you from CMU Press, a proud (and new!) LPG member. Happy 50th! #lpg50

Early Bird Registration has been extended until 31 May. This is going to be a very good conference, with at least 50 creative writers and academics giving a variety of presentations of and about Mennonite/s Writing. Students can register for half price. Register at www.cmu.ca/mennonites-w....

Librarians are society's unquestioned superheroes these days & they're doing their utmost to keep up our spirits. (This is the Henderson branch of @wpgpubliclibrary.bsky.social)