2015 Mormon Lit Blitz Winner
Declaring a winner in a literary contest is silly in many ways. As the ballots and comments make clear, different pieces resonated with...
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Liz Busby
May 30, 20151 min read
Lit Blitz Voting Instructions
We have enjoyed all twelve finalists. But we only have one Grand Prize. Help us decide which piece wins this year’s Lit Blitz by emailing...
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Liz Busby
May 29, 20151 min read
“Mother” by Merrijane Rice
You haven’t left yet, but when you do I’ll remind the children how you made sandwiches on warm wheat bread, stocked popsicles in your...
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Liz Busby
May 28, 20154 min read
“Should Have Prayed For a Canoe” by Julia Jeffery
As soon as Brother Gardner opened the door, Shelley held out Sister Black’s old flip phone to him. “Do you have anything bigger or better...
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Liz Busby
May 27, 20154 min read
“Decorating Someone Else’s Service,” by Lehua Parker
Last night my daughter stormed into the kitchen spitting nails after her Young Women’s activity. “Do you know what we did?” “Is this a...
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Liz Busby
May 26, 20151 min read
“Echo of Boy” by Darlene Young
My son hunches into the storm in his oversized coat to collect fast offerings, a two-hour route because the other mother’s sons stay in...
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Liz Busby
May 25, 20154 min read
“The Joys of Onsite Apartment Building Management” by William Morris
Someone had made a spray paint stain on the second floor landing in the stairwell of Building B, and Maria couldn’t get it out. It was...
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Liz Busby
May 24, 20152 min read
“Disability, Death, or Other Circumstance,” by Annaliese Lemmon
1. My husband is not a cockroach. If I had woken up next to Kafka’s “monstrous vermin,” I would have run and sprayed an entire can of...
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Liz Busby
May 22, 20153 min read
“The Five Year Journal” by Katherine Cowley
This journal belongs to Hannah Bolt (Rinehart!) February 20th 2010: I know you’re supposed to start journals at the beginning of the...
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Liz Busby
May 21, 20151 min read
“Faded Garden” by Emily Harris Adams
I don’t remember the time of nameless animals. The lions have been lions too long for even Adam to think of them as anything else. My...
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Liz Busby
May 20, 20154 min read
“Child Star,” by Scott Hales
The call comes as Bishop Jonathan Parker prepares a funeral sermon for Gerald Thorkelsen, whose service is in two hours. He doesn’t...
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Liz Busby
May 19, 20151 min read
“Three Meditations on Fatherhood” by Tyler Chadwick
I. Two Kitchen Floors and a Tea Party 1. Scrubbing the kitchen floor on my hands and knees: Dad walked in, looked down, said, You’ll...
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Liz Busby
May 18, 20153 min read
“Best Wedding Advice Ever,” by Heather Young
Twenty-eight years ago, on his way to the temple on our wedding day, my husband-to-be had to saw his locking gas cap off with a hacksaw....
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Liz Busby
May 17, 20151 min read
“Angry Sunbeam,” by Theric Jepson
Angry Sunbeam does not want to wear a pretty bow in her hair. Angry Sunbeam does not care for raisins in her oatmeal. Or for oatmeal,...
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Liz Busby
May 15, 20151 min read
2015 Mormon Lit Blitz Schedule
This Monday kicks off the fourth annual Mormon Lit Blitz, featuring twelve finalists over a two-week period. The schedule follows:...
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Liz Busby
May 11, 20151 min read
2015 Lit Blitz Finalists
The Fourth Annual Mormon Lit Blitz will run May 18-30. We are pleased to announce this year’s finalists, listed by genre: Fiction:...
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