2021 Mormon Lit Blitz Voting Results
We really enjoyed this year’s Mormon Lit Blitz–and are looking forward to compiling all the finalists in a second print anthology next...
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Liz Busby
Jun 11, 20211 min read
“perspective” by Jonathon Penny
we are all of us, always a hair’s width from calamity and but a breath from joy
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Liz Busby
Jun 10, 20213 min read
“Sacrament in Solitude” by Marianne Hales Harding
The Sunday squirrels were the most aggressive, tumbling over each other to get the holy leftovers, biting and scratching as if their...
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Liz Busby
Jun 9, 20211 min read
“Weight of Souls” by Selina Forsyth
So much, lately, feels like the churning of water in storm, sixty pounds per square inch of pressure dragging this way and that and...
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Liz Busby
Jun 8, 20213 min read
“Golden Plate Controversy Erupts with ‘Mormon Storm’” by Devin Galloway
Nevada Gazette-Journal 1 September 2031 In the heart of Salt Lake City, an estimated 600 people stormed the iconic Salt Lake Temple over...
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Liz Busby
Jun 7, 20214 min read
“Not of Necessity” by Jeanine Bee
Have you ever seen a roadshow? Most people these days haven’t. It’s a shame, because the roadshow is a uniquely Mormon art form. A 1984...
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Liz Busby
Jun 6, 20212 min read
“Padrenuestro multiforme” de Gabriel González Núñez
Read an English translation here . El Padrenuestro es la más poética de las plegarias, un ruego que, habiendo sido trasladado de idioma...
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Liz Busby
Jun 6, 20212 min read
“The Lord’s Multiform Prayer” by Gabriel González Núñez
Translated by the author. Click here to read in the original Spanish. The Lord’s Prayer is the most poetic of prayers. This prayer has...
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Liz Busby
Jun 5, 20211 min read
“We Must Overcome” by Jonathon Penny
"We Must Overcome" our ignorance of otherness; our cocksure, credulous belief that what we know is true, though what we know is marginal...
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Liz Busby
Jun 4, 20211 min read
“‘Oh, a Dove …’ — A Report from Nagasaki –” by Aiko Tokuzawa
Translated by Jiro Numano and Vince Lawlor. Read in the original Japanese here. In the sky above the Peace Statue, fall has come, Fall...
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Liz Busby
Jun 4, 20211 min read
あ・鳩が―長崎報告―徳沢 愛子
Read the English translation here. 平和像の上空に 秋は来ていた 献花の山に降りてきた秋が 風を起こすと あの日のにおいがした においを嗅ぐたびに 傷は赤い口を開けた 8 月 9 日午前 11 時 2 分は 毎年新しくやってきて...
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Liz Busby
Jun 2, 20214 min read
“Reformed Egyptian” by Lee Allred
Kirtland, Ohio A certain evening in July, 1835 Bunting drapes the walls of the rented Masonic Lodge. Lamplight glitters across brass...
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Liz Busby
Jun 1, 20211 min read
“Final Exam” by Jared Forsyth
The final exam will be administered at random and repeatedly you will be notified at least halfway through each time that it is...
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Liz Busby
May 31, 20214 min read
“Unfit Mother of the Year” by Susan Law Corpany
Years ago I did a book signing with an author on whom the title “Mother of the Time Period Lasting 365 Days” had been bestowed. (It is...
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Liz Busby
May 30, 20211 min read
“116 Pages” by Merrijane Rice
I know how you felt, Martin, niggled in turn by hope and fear, longing to be part of something great and ready to suffer or sacrifice—...
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Liz Busby
May 24, 20212 min read
Mormon Lit Blitz 2021 Finalists
From 31 May through 12 June, we’ll post the finalists in this year’s Mormon Lit Blitz here on lit.mormonartist.net. Join us for a daily...
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Liz Busby
May 18, 20213 min read
Mormon Lit Blitz 10th Anniversary Announcement + 2021 Longlist
It’s easy to count the ways that 2020 was a hard year: pandemic, quarantine, economic instability, civil unrest. Looking back, it’s just...
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