About CMU Press
CMU Press is an academic publisher of scholarly, reference, literary, and general interest books at Canadian Mennonite University. Books from CMU Press address and inform interests and issues vital to the university, its constituency, and society. Historically, areas of specialization have been Mennonite studies and theology. We are committed to publishing a diversity of manuscripts, marked by excellence. We employ a peer review process.
Update December 2023: We are unable to consider submissions and new acquisitions at the current time. CMU Press is a small publisher, and we have already committed to a number of titles which will keep the Press occupied for approximately the next two years.
The publishing mission of CMU Press is informed by the four commitments of its host institution, Canadian Mennonite University:
- Educate for Peace – Justice
- Learn through Thinking and Doing
- Welcome Generous Hospitality... Radical Dialogue
- Model Invitational Community
CMU Press emerged in 2000 from CMBC Publications, established in 1974 at Canadian Mennonite Bible College, one of CMU's founding colleges. Since then, CMU Press has published over 100 titles. Awards include Manitoba Book Awards "Best Illustrated Book" for Miriam Rudolph's David's Trip to Paraguay: The Land of Amazing Colours in 2012 and Manitoba Book Awards "McNally Robinson Book of the Year" in 2010 for Dora Dueck's novel This Hidden Thing. In 2007 John J. Friesen's Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites won the "Manitoba Day Award" of the Association for Manitoba Archives.
Bestsellers include On the Zwieback Trail by Lisa Weaver, Julie Kauffman, and Judith Rempel Smucker, Mennonite Central Committee in Canada: A History by Esther Epp-Tiessen (published in partnership with MCC) and Along the Road To Freedom by Ray Dirks (in partnership with MHC Gallery).
We are honoured to live, learn, work, and serve on Treaty 1 Territory, the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, and Dakota First Nations and the homeland of the Métis Nation. We acknowledge the truth of past harms and ongoing wrongs and seek active reconciliation with Indigenous communities and people.
For more information about CMU Press, contact:
Dr. Sue Sorensen, Director
cmupress_at_cmu.ca
Sue Sorensen is the author of The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film (Cascade, 2015), and the novel A Large Harmonium (Coteau, 2011), winner of Best First book at the Manitoba Book Awards that year. In 2008, CMU Press published West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature, which she edited. In 2023, her first book of poetry, Acutely Life, will be released by At Bay Press. Dr. Sorensen has been a member of the Department of English at Canadian Mennonite University since 2005 and took on the leadership of CMU Press in 2021. Her academic publications range from studies of the novels of A. S. Byatt, Henry James, Ian McEwan, and Guy Vanderhaeghe to detective fiction, children's books, rock lyricists, and the filmmaking of Neil Young. Born in Saskatchewan, she holds a BA from the University of Regina and an MA and PhD from University of British Columbia.
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