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Thank you to everyone who read the finalists in this year’s Mormon Lit Blitz. We love sharing these pieces with you. Before we announce...

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Each year, we award a small cash prize to an audience favorite piece from the Mormon Lit Blitz. To vote, look through the pieces and rank...

If you measured my life by low points and high, all my loves and jealousies recorded as scripture of extremes, you’d miss times of...

For the English translation, click here. Séculos de progressos Mas também de retrocessos; Séculos pintados com sangue, Sem que ninguém...

Translated by Kent Larsen. For the original Portuguese, click here. Centuries of progression but also of regression; centuries painted...

For the English translation, click here. Nhô Jon Anton nasceu no Mocho da Garça na ilha de Santo Antão e cedo emigrou para a Argentina a...

Translated by Katherine Cowley. For the original Portuguese, click here. Master Jôn Anton was born in Mocho da Garça, on the island of...

D&C 6: 2-4, 36 Doubt not, fear not The field is white, and I’m handing out sickles to all comers. On-the-job training for handling...

Sunday morning I woke up with the feeling that I should go to church early. It was more than a feeling, actually, and sure enough, when I...

When I was in third grade, our class spent some time studying world cultures. We each chose a country and prepared a project to share...

For the original Spanish, click here . Christ in Gethsemane Ekphrastic poem after Carl Bloch’s painting by the same name I have not...

For the English translation, click here .  Cristo en el huerto de Getsemaní Poema ecfrástico a partir de la obra homónima de Carl Bloch...

Blood spills on the garden floor. It isn’t mine but should be. My fig leaves, like ignorance, itch to be shed. They will not be enough...

The day before the world unlocked into geometric shapes, trees were blobs. Angles were rounded, glowing things, every object blending...

Wanted: someone who deserves this coat Someone asked me for my coat today I didn’t give it to them I couldn’t be sure they deserved it...

When I stand up on resurrection day, will I be able to walk, or will there be too many chickens? Will they crowd around me, their plush...

We didn’t really nowtice what was happening at first. It was so gradual. The dropping of a word’s inding, the slurring, a slanted accent....

From 30 May through 11 June, we’ll post the finalists in this year’s Mormon Lit Blitz here on lit.mormonartist.net. Join us for a daily...

Thank you to everyone who submitted to this year’s Mormon Lit Blitz! After our initial review of these pieces, we’re excited to share our...