A poll for those entering Everyday Mormon Writer’s upcoming contest
With just over 10 days left to enter Everyday Mormon Writer’s Four Centuries of Mormon Stories contest, I thought I’d see if we can get a sense of which centuries AMVers are focusing on. If you have...
View ArticleA Mormon reference in Karen Joy Fowler’s short story collection
I’ve been reading What I Didn’t See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. I’m enjoying it very much — Fowler infuses the literary with the weird in a way that speaks to my particular tastes and...
View ArticleInterview with Courtney Miller Santo, author of The Roots of the Olive Tree
Courtney Miller Santo is a writer of mainstream/literary fiction who has been published in the Mormon literary journals as well as nationally. Her debut novel was just published last month. You can...
View ArticleDiscuss Avek, Who Is Distributed by Steven Peck
Wm says: I’m pleased to host a discussion of the penultimate story in the Four Centuries of Mormon Stories contest. Here’s a guest post from the contest organizers to help us kick things off: You may...
View ArticleA method for easily voting in the Four Centuries of Mormon Stories Contest
Everyday Mormon Writer is reporting that four of the stories in the Four Centuries of Mormon Stories Contest are within three votes of the top position and all of the stories are within ten votes. This...
View ArticleJames Goldberg’s The Five Books of Jesus
At the Sunday morning session of the October general conference Elder Jeffrey R. Holland related the episode in the New Testament where the risen Christ appears to the Apostles and instructs Peter to...
View ArticleA nod to Mormon history in Ally Condie’s Reached
I can’t tell you what it is because that would be a huge spoiler. But there’s a major one (and it’s one Condie writes about in the acknowledgements). I still need to fully process the Matched trilogy...
View ArticleThe Matched Trilogy: Teenagers and correlated media
Note: this post contains spoilers for Matched, but not for the other two books in Ally Condie’s trilogy. In my first reaction to Ally Condie’s Matched, the first book in the Matched trilogy, I noted...
View ArticleWelcome Sarah Dunster and Luisa Perkins
I am very pleased to announce that Sarah Dunster and Luisa Perkins are joining A Motley Vision. Both are longtime commenters at (and friends of) AMV and have also been interview subjects. Luisa is the...
View ArticleThoughts Toward a More Thorough Treatment of Mormons, Mormonism, Literature,...
Last week Kent asked AMV readers to consider what would make a Mormon theory of literature different. I could be wrong, but I’m assuming that his points of comparison—his different than—are general...
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