Broadside Publishing

About 10 times a year the Broadside committee — composed of both faculty and students, as well as the current Horswell Fellow — publishes a piece of original creative writing in placard, or “broadside,” format. Each piece is individually signed by the author and distributed free of charge to an on-campus subscription list. Since 1976 the outstanding writing of students, faculty and staff members, as well as high-profile visitors to campus, has been showcased and shared via Broadside. The work of student winners of yearly Broadside contests are also published and distributed at least once a year.

Poems, memoir and short fiction are welcome in the series. Authors are also encouraged to submit an illustration or visual design for the publication, which is produced by a Horswell Fellow or apprentice.

Notable Broadside Writers:

David Daniels, poet
Yasmina Din Madden, fictional writer
Philip Metres, poet
Dana Johnson, fiction writer
Tony Macaulay, author
Rhoda Janzen, poet and memoirist
B.H. Fairchild, poet
Cornelius Eady, poet
Pat Mora, Chicana poet
Edwidge Danticat, author
David Dabydeen, novelist and poet
Donald Hall, poet
Denise Levertov, poet
David Foster Wallace, writer and novelist
Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize
Garrison Keillor, radio host and humorist
Elliot Wigginton, writer and educator
Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
William Stafford, poet, winner of the National Book Award
Peter Fallon, poet and publisher
Colville Young, poet
Niyi Osundare, Nigeria
Alastair Reed, poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet

 

Broadsides By Active Mennonite Writers Include:

Sofia Samatar, author and scholar
Julia Kasdorf, Carnegie poetry prize
Rudy Wiebe, Canada, novelist, Governor-General’s Prize
Jean Janzen, poet, Fresno, Calif.
Juanita Brunk, poet, New York City, N.Y.
Keith Ratzlaff, poet, Iowa
Janet Kauffman, novelist, Michigan
David Waltner-Toews, poet, Toronto, Canada