2018 Mormon Lit Blitz Winners
As always, we owe thanks to all the writers who submitted to this year’s Mormon Lit Blitz and to the many readers who read the finalists,...
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Liz Busby
Jun 18, 20183 min read
2018 Mormon Lit Blitz: Judge’s Choice Award
To celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Mormon Lit Blitz, we decided to fund an additional $100 “Judge’s Choice” award, with a winner...
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Liz Busby
Jun 10, 20182 min read
2018 Mormon Lit Blitz Voting Instructions–and Some Exciting News
It’s that time of year again–just a week left to choose the winner of the Mormon Lit Blitz! Voting Instructions As per tradition, the...
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Liz Busby
Jun 9, 20183 min read
“Missionary Weekly Report for 28 March-3 April, Mumbai 1st Branch, Church of Jesus Christ of L
Dear President Sudhakar, Our key indicators for the week are 30 new investigators, 55 member-present lessons, 6 investigators who...
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Liz Busby
Jun 8, 20181 min read
“Joseph and Emma Grow Old Together” by Theric Jepson
You never used to sleep this late, motes of sun dancing above your face. The years pull your eyes toward your pillow. Your smile has...
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Liz Busby
Jun 7, 20181 min read
“The Last Swing” by Sheldon Lawrence
At some point you will take your last swing from our arms as you walk between us on that gravel road, when you wiggle in and take each of...
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Liz Busby
Jun 6, 20184 min read
“Proof That Sister Greeley Is a Witch (Even Though Mormons Don’t Believe in Witches)" by William Morris
Sister Greeley’s first name is Agnes. Agnes is a witch’s name. No woman named Agnes has ever not been a witch. Sister Greeley doesn’t...
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Liz Busby
Jun 5, 20181 min read
“Still Clean” by Sherry Work
A cleansing ritual Pure water flows Living water washes me Clean every whit. My heart is soothed My spirit soars At one with my Lord...
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Liz Busby
Jun 4, 20184 min read
“Beneath the Visiting Moon” by Lee Allred
I woke to repeated hammering at my front door. I staggered through from my bedroom wearing nothing but a tattered pair of Army sweatpants...
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Liz Busby
Jun 2, 20184 min read
“After the Fast” by William Morris
The problem with fasting forty days and forty nights is that he had, once again, forgotten how to eat. He had been on individual...
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Liz Busby
Jun 1, 20182 min read
“Counsel” by Faith Kershisnik
Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam, who slept: and Onlybegotten said: Lord, you lied to adam. And Lord God began to form...
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Liz Busby
May 31, 20183 min read
“New Rhythm” by Tanya Hanamaikai
As soon as she made it through the gate, Morah pulled off her sandals and jumped into the bobbing crowd of red and blue dressed girls,...
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Liz Busby
May 30, 20184 min read
“A Perfect Voice” by Katherine Cowley
Clara took her place next to the sister missionaries on the pew. She’d agreed to attend the Mormon church today because there was a...
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Liz Busby
May 29, 20183 min read
“Scrubbing Jesus’s Toilets” by Lehua Parker
Near the end of a three-hour block, on the first day of teaching 15 four and five-year-olds in Primary, both the kids and I were maxed....
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Liz Busby
May 28, 20184 min read
“Three Dogs in the Afterlife” by Luisa Perkins
that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there Δ waits while ⊕ gets her bearings. It always takes a little...
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Liz Busby
May 21, 20181 min read
2018 Mormon Lit Blitz Finalists
Finalists for the 7th Annual Mormon Lit Blitz will be posted here on lit.mormonartist.net 28 May – 9 June, according to the following...
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Liz Busby
May 7, 20181 min read
2018 Mormon Lit Blitz Longlist
Thank you to everyone who submitted to the Seventh Annual Mormon Lit Blitz! After reviewing the submissions, we’ve selected twenty-four...
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