Armin Wiebe's Published Work

 
Novels:

Tatsea, 2003 (Turnstone Press)

The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst, 1995 (Turnstone Press)

Murder in Gutenthal: A Schneppa Kjnals Mystery, 1991 (Turnstone Press)


The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, 1984, 2004(Turnstone Press)

    (Credo Productions of Winnipeg carried out film plans to three drafts of the script

        before letting the project lapse.)

Short fiction in anthologies:

'Moonlight Rehearsal', a/crosssections: NEW MANITOBA WRITING, 2007 (Manitoba Writers' Guild)

'Boss in the House', Great Stories From The Prairies, 2000 (Red Deer)

'Scheckbengel Romance', What Mennonites are Thinking, 1999 (Good Books)

'Oata, Oata,' Making a Difference, 1996 (Oxford)

`And Besides God Made Poison Ivy', Due West: 30 Great Stories from Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, 1996 (Turnstone, Coteau, NeWest)

`I Have a Vision', Let the Earth Take Note, 1994 (Milton Acorn Festival)

`Mouse Lake', Hearts Wild, 1993 (Turnstone)

`Heista Kopp in Love', 200% Cracked Wheat, 1992 (Coteau)

`Boss in the House', Made in Manitoba, 1990 (Turnstone)

`Mouse Lake', The Journey Prize Anthology, 1989 (McClelland & Stewart)

`Oata, Oata', Liars and Rascals, 1989 (U. of Waterloo Press)

`Practising', Liars and Rascals, 1989 (U. of Waterloo Press)

`These Troubled Times', Section Lines: A Manitoba Anthology, 1988 (Turnstone)

`Schneppa Kjnals', Good Humour Man,1987 (Queenston)

`Kicking Against the Pricks', Manitoba Stories, 1981 (Queenston)

 

Short fiction in periodicals:

'The Call of the Fedora', Prairie Fire, Spring 2009


'The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz", Prairie Fire, Spring 2005

'When the Piano Came', Rhubarb, Spring 2003

'The Little Kollouch', Prairie Fire, Spring 2002

'Suaruh Suschkje Learns to Laugh', Preservings (Hanover Steinbach Historical Society), December 1999

'A Woman Who Married Yamozha', Journal of Mennonite Studies, Volume 17, 1999

'February 3', Prairie Fire, Summer 1997

`Thank You for That, Mr. Runnels', Prairie Fire, Winter 1996

`Jars', Zygote, Fall 1993

`The Mosquito Harvest', the magazine Community Arts, Summer 1992

`Good Citizen Yasch', Prairie Fire, Fall 1991

`Would My Son, Doft, Buy Some', Mennonite Mirror, May 1991

`A Schneppa Kjnals Delirium', Prairie Fire, July 1990

`The Well Woman', The New Quarterly, May 1990

`Mouse Lake', Prairie Fire, Fall 1988

`Sunday Night Christian Endeavor', Prairie Fire, Spring, 1984

`Audee Nobah Naze', NeWest Review, November, 1983

`Oata, Oata', The Fiddlehead, October, 1983

`The Rightmaker', Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1982

`Twa Corbies', Writers' News Manitoba, December, 1981

`The Rightmaker', Writers' News Manitoba, July, 1981

`Cities of Refuge', Mennonite Mirror, April, 1981

`Flypaper', Grain, Fall, 1977

`The Courage to Cry' Canadian Short Story Magazine, Fall, 1976

`Molecular Theory' Alive, March, 1973

 

Broadcasts

'Boss in the House', CBC Radio: Between the Covers, Fall 2001
 

Plays
 

'The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz', staged reading at Carol Shields Festival of New Works 2009, sponsored by Manitoba Association of Playwrights and Theatre Projects Manitoba directed by Ulla Rhum. Cast: Arne MacPherson, Tom Keenan, Monique Marcker, and Jaqueline Loewen.

`Pitch to Me, Yasch Siemens' produced by Manitoba Association of Playwrights as part of Short Shots 1995.

 
Articles
 

'A Writer Meets His Readers', Rhubarb, # 14, 2007

'Encounter', The Beaver, October/November 2004

'Three Winnipeg Novels from the Trudeau Era', Prairie Fire, Summer 1999

 

 

Book Reviews:

 

`Unraveling Ancestries' (Random Descent by Katherine Govier), NeWest Review, June 1979

`A Heroine for Young Canadians' (Nellie McClung and Women's Rights by Helen K. Wright) Writers' News Manitoba, September, 1980

`A Land for Long Courting' (Beyond the Lakes: Selected Poems by Thomas Saunders) Writers' News Manitoba, March 1981

`How is a Poem Taught?' (When is a Poem: Creative Ideas for Teaching Poetry by Florence McNeill) Writers' News Manitoba, May 1981

`In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton' Prairie Fire, July 1983

`Strangled Roots by Isaac Quiring' Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. XV, No.2, 1983

`A Good Introduction' (A Sackful of Plautdietsch: A Collection of Mennonite Low German Stories edited by Al Reimer, Anne Reimer, and Jack Thiessen), Prairie Fire, Spring 1985

`A Great Book' (Flicker and Hawk by Patrick Friesen), Prairie Fire, Autumn 1987

`Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic by Rudy Wiebe', Prairie Fire, Summer 1990

`Summer of the Hungry Pup, The Last Echo, and Winter of the White Wolf by Byrna Barclay', Prairie Fire, Autumn, 1990

`Red River Story and Lord of the Plains by Alfred Silver', Prairie Fire, Winter 1990-91

`Private Property by Margaret Sweatman', Prairie Fire, Spring 1991

`Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada: An Anthology edited by Jeanne Perrault and Sylvia Vance; Preface by Emma LaRocque', Prairie Fire, Fall 1991

`Odd Occurrences in an Odd World: Five short story collections', Prairie Fire, Winter, 1991-92
 
`Sitting Opposite My Brother by David Bergen', Prairie Fire, Autumn, 1993

`The Bride of Texas', Winnipeg Free Press, Dec. 24, 1995

`Dust to Dust', Winnipeg Free Press, April 20, 1997
 

Poetry:
 

`marcien lemay's statue: louis riel', Alive, March, 1973

`the silent',`at the end', Inland Sea, 1979

`on charles colson', Writers' News Manitoba, March, 1981

`What the Kroetsch Said, Or Amber Liquid is Beer, Aritha', Prairie Fire, Spring 1988

 

Children's Stories:
 

Stories of Yamozha Levels 1, 2 & 3, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Ekwo and Diga, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Diga and the Baby Caribou, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Baby Caribou in Winter, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Too Big for Mother, LLM Reader Project, 1984

A Broken Stick, LLM Reader Project, 1984

The Velvet Caribou Antlers, LLM Reader Project, 1984

When I Still Remember: Poetry from the Elders of Lac La Martre, (Editor) LLM Reader Project, 1984

Sliding Down the Community Hall, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Go Away Dog, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Big Wheels in the Snow, LLM Reader Project, 1984

What Will I Buy at the Co-op Today?, LLM Reader Project, 1984

The Old Man and the Cree, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Granny's Pet, LLM Reader Project, 1984

Rita's Gray Hair, LLM Reader Project, 1984

The Lac La Martre Fish Plant, LLM Reader Project, 1984

A Caribou Hunt With No Bullets, LLM Reader Project, 1984