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Award-winning, blueberry-growing essayist, poet, feaured at Writers Read event on Monday, Feb. 10

February 5, 2014Last updated February 11, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Jim Minick, author of the award-winning The Blueberry Years, A Memoir of Farm and Family, will be at EMU on Monday, Feb. 10, for two events, culminating in the first

EMU alum next featured Writers Read author

October 29, 2013Last updated November 15, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Jessica Penner, a 2001 Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) alumna, will be the next featured “Writers Read Author,” on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m., in EMU’s Common Grounds Coffeehouse in

Frank X Walker to open 2013-14 Writers Read series

September 5, 2013Last updated September 19, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Frank X Walker, a multidisciplinary artist and Al Smith Fellowship recipient, will open the 2013-14 “Writers Read Author series,” on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 8:30 p.m., in Eastern Mennonite University’s

Landises Books Chronicle Life, Family and EMU Careers

April 17, 2013Last updated May 18, 2020 by Emily Sharrer

Peggy Heatwole Landis and Jay B. Landis have a long history with Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), one that began more than half a century ago. The two met, fell in

Writers Read Author Discusses Leaving the Amish

March 19, 2013Last updated April 8, 2013 by Candace Sipos

Saloma Miller Furlong always liked the way Burlington, Vt., looked in her school history books. So, when she decided to leave her Ohio Amish community at the age of 20,

Upcoming Writers Read Author Left Amish for Freedom and Education

February 21, 2013Last updated March 8, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

What would cause you to leave your faith? Saloma Miller Furlong, an author who grew up in and left an Amish community in Ohio, will be the last “Writers Read Dinner

Writers Read Jan. 31: Katie Fallon Writes Gently on Her Environmental Passions

January 14, 2013Last updated January 25, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Katie Fallon, an outdoor enthusiast and bird lover who authored Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), kicks off the spring “Writers Read Dinner and

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

Make a Splash With the Arts

September 18, 2012Last updated October 5, 2012 by Marcy Gineris

At EMU, a Christian university like no other, students are learning to use art for social transformation, service within their community, to deepen their faith, and more. Theater As a theater student, you’ll act,

Shenandoah Valley Journeyer to Open First Writers Read

September 7, 2012Last updated September 27, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

Casey Clabough, author of memoir The Warrior’s Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route, a book about his travels through the Shenandoah Valley, will be the speaker at the opening event

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