Broadside Publishing

About 10 times a year the Broadside committee — composed of both faculty and students — 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 a subscription list of about 250 people on campus. (Sorry, no mailed subscriptions.) Since 1976 the outstanding writing of students, faculty and staff members, as well as visitors to campus, has been honored by such publication.

Poems, songs, 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 paid student assistant.

Notable Broadside Writers:

Philip Metres, poet
Dana Johnson, fiction writer
Tony Macaulay, Northern Ireland, author
Rhoda Janzen, poet and memoirist
B.H. Fairchild, poet
Cornelius Eady, poet
Pat Mora, Chicana poet
Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author
David Dabydeen, novelist and poet, Guyana and England
Donald Hall, poet, New Hampshire
Denise Levertov, poet, Seattle, Wash.
David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest
Seamus Heaney, Ireland, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature
Garrison Keillor of radio’s “Prairie Home Companion”
Elliot Wigginton, founder of the Foxfire project
Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
William Stafford, poet, National Book Award
Peter Fallon, Ireland, poet and publisher
Colville Young, poet, Governor-General of Belize
Niyi Osundare, Nigeria, Commonwealth Poetry Prize
Alastair Reed, poet, The New Yorker
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia, poet

Broadsides By Active Mennonite Writers Include:

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