PUBLICATIONS
"As a child of 'border crossings' that have eventually led to homelands on the West Coast of Canada and as a student of literature, poet and memoirist, I have embraced what I consider my obligation as a 'second generation witness' in writing..."-- Connie T. Braun
ACADEMIC PAPERS
“Silence and Elegies” Journal of the Centre for Mennonite Writing, ed. Ervin Beck and Ann Hostelter, Issue 4.4 (July/August), Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, 2012.
“The Affirmation of Being in the Poetics of Trauma: The Voice of Anne Michaels.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. April, 2010.
“Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaoerum: Proto-feminism, Piety or Transcendence?” Illumine Literary Journal, University of Victoria, October, 2008.
“Canadian Mennonite Life-Writing: Silence, Memory and Imagination as Story.”
Center for Mennonite Writing, Goshen College, Fall 08. http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/1/3/silence-memory-and-imagination-story.
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Silentium, Wipf and Stock Publishers, forthcoming October 2017, Now available through Amazon.
"Crochet: Or a story of the Immigrant Family", Goshen, January 2017.
The Fade-Proof Lake, Chapbook. Fern Hill Publishing, Vancouver, 2015.
“Against Sentimentality” [spaces] Literary Journal of Trinity Western University, 2014.
The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir, Ronsdale Press, October 2008.
“The Basket” Half in the Sun: An Anthology of Mennonite Writing, Ronsdale Press, 2006 and in Rhubarb:Writing From the West Coast, 2005.
“Returning to Fintry” MB Herald.
“Stormy” Sophia Wisdom.
“A Christmas Gift from the Sea” Sophia Wisdom (contest winner).
POETRY
Narrow Passageway, Alfred Gustav Press, Vancouver, December 2017, Series 18.
The Journal for the Centre of Mennonite Writing, Goshen, January 2017.
Canadian National Voices Anthology, 2017.
The Vigil Magazine, 04 2017.
In/Words Magazine, themed issue Refuge(e), Carlton University, Ottawa, Fall 2016. Vol 15, Issue 3.
Unspoken: An Inheritance of Words, Fern Hill Publishing, Vancouver, 2016.
InWords Magazine, Special Issue, Refuge(e), Carlton University Press, October 2016.
The Fade-Proof Lake, Chapbook. Fern Hill Publishing, Vancouver, 2015.
Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia, ed. Susan Musgrave, Mother Tongue Publishing Ltd, 2013.
Mothering Mennonites, ed. Kerry Fast and Rachel Epp Buehler, Demeter Press, Bradford, Ontario, 2013.
Journal for the Centre of Mennonite Writing, July 2012.
Roots and Branches, publication of the Mennonite Historical Society of BC, 2011.
[spaces] Literary Journal of TWU, 2009.
In addition, reviews of Connie’s published work appear in the following publications:
The Mennonite Quarterly Review, May 2010 by Shirley Hershey Showalter, 280-282.
100 Memoirs www.100Memoirs.com
The Globe and Mail, March 2, 2009.
Rhubarb: A Publication of the Mennonite Literary Society, Spring 2009.
BC Book World, Vol. 23. No.1. Spring 2009.
Conrad Grebel Review, Vol. 27. No.2. Spring 2009.
Roots and Branches, Newsletter of the Mennonite Historical Society of BC, January 2009.
The Mennonite Brethren Herald Vol. 47. No. 12, December 2008.
Vancouver Sun, November 29, 2008.
Winnipeg Free Press, November 23, 2008.
Journal of Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg, November 11, 2008.
Journal of Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg, Vol. 24 (2006).
Reviews (written/published):
“The Centre and Margins” Canadian Literature, 24 Jul. 2017. Web http://canlit.ca/article/the-centre-and-margins/
Book Review of "All My Puny Sorrows", Miriam Toews, Alfred A. Knopf, Toronto, (2014), for Mennonite Life, Bethel College, Newton, Kansas, Issue 2014 Vol. 69, (2015).
Book Review (Poetry) of “What Does a House Want?” by Gary Geddes. Red Hen Press, Pasadena CA, 2014. Prism International (2015).
Book Review of “Inside My Own Skin” by Guillaume de Fonclare, translated from the French by Yves Henri Clourec. Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn NY, 2010. Prism International (2015).
Book Review of “Deepening Community: Finding Joy in Chaotic Times” by Paul Born (forthcoming).
Book Review of “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress” by Rhoda Janzen. Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2010, Number One.
Book Review of “Beatitudes” by Herménégilde Chiasson, Translated by JoAnn Elder, Gooselane Editions, 2007. Canadian Book Review Annual, 2009.
Book Review of “Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet” by Tina Grimberg, Tundra Books, Toronto, 2007. Canadian Book Review Annual, 2009.
Book Review of “In Age Reborn”, By Grace Sustained: One woman’s journey through aging and chronic illness by Thelma-Anne McLoud, ABC Publishing, 2007. Canadian Book Review Annual, 2009.
Book Review of “The Angel Notebooks” by Luciano Iacobelli, Seraphim Editions, Hamilton, 2007. Canadian Book Review Annual, 2009.
Book Review of “What My Arms Can Carry” by Gianna Patriarca, Guernica, 2007. Canadian Book Review Annual, August, 2008.
Book Review of “Miraculous Hours” by Matt Rader, Nightwood Editions, 2005. Canadian Book Review Annual, August, 2008.
Book Review of “He Claims He is the Direct Heir” by Lazar Sarna, Porcupine Quill, 2005. Canadian Book Review Annual, August, 2008.
Book Review of “A Curious Beatitude” by Sarah Klassen, The Muses’ Company Series, published by J. Gordon Schillingford: Winnipeg, 2006.
