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Novelist and short fiction writer Vic Sizemore comes to campus for Writers Read, Mar. 12

March 6, 2015Last updated March 13, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Novelist and short story writer Vic Sizemore creates characters who grapple with issues of faith, engage in deep soul-searching journeys, and try to reconcile the rock-solid tenets learned in childhood

From touring rock musician to Teacher of the Year in Valley school system

May 23, 2014Last updated June 13, 2014 by Alexander Sharp VIII

After earning a degree in songwriting from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2006, Harrisonburg native John Hostetter ’11 moved to Tucson, Arizona. He spent two years playing guitar

Amish “bonnet rippers” examined in alumna’s book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press

October 14, 2013Last updated December 5, 2013 by Chris Edwards

Amish “bonnet rippers” have become massively popular in the past decade, Valerie Weaver-Zercher told an audience of fellow-alumni and faculty during Homecoming 2013 at Eastern Mennonite University, Oct. 11-13. A

Writers Read Author To Take Participants “Back Home”

October 24, 2012Last updated November 2, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

Joy Jordan-Lake, a national Christy Award recipient for first novel, Blue Hole Back Home: A Novel, (David C. Cook, 2008), will read from her works during the second event in

Cross-Cultural Sparks Doctorate on Former Gang Members in Guatemala

October 10, 2012Last updated October 30, 2012 by Gordon Houser

Bob Brenneman believes in the power of story. His own story moves from growing up in a rural church in southern Michigan to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), Harrisonburg, Va., to

W.Va. Poet to Read Works at EMU

February 6, 2008 by Jim Bishop

Poet Cheryl Denise Miller The language and literature department at EMU will feature the narrative poetry of Cheryl Denise Miller at its next Writers Read program, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb.

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