In Part One, Patricia Wiles answered questions from A Motley Vision. In this segment of the interview, Patricia fields questions from two admiring fans. Saul, age 16, is interested in herpetology and is an aspiring writer himself. Val, age 9, wants to be a naturalist when she grows up but has also begun writing stories. Both kids enjoyed [...]
I’m pleased to announce that my fellow AMVer S.P. Bailey took second and third place in the 2006 BYU Studies Poetry Contest. Look for his poems “Reliquary” and “Prayer” in an upcoming issue of BYU Studies.
Patricia Wiles is the author of three novels for young adults: My Mom’s a Mortician (2004 Covenant Communications), Funeral Home Evenings (2005 Covenant Communications), and Early Morning Cemetery (2006 Covenant Communications). My Mom’s a Mortician and Funeral Home Evenings won the Association for Mormon Letters’s Award for Young Adult Fiction in 2004 and 2005, respectively.
Last night we had a staged reading of my play “The Reluctant Convert” about C.S. Lewis’ conversion from atheism to Christianity. It was a very productive, edifying experience, having given me a lot of food for thought about where to take my next draft of the script.
By some freakish law of nature, it is inevitable that the two sessions you are most interested in will end up in the same time slot. I’m a big fan of Blake Ostler’s theology and so I really wanted to hear what he had to say in response to some rebuttals from some good people, [...]
To begin the day, (my day, at least, I got there late again) author Brian Evenson spoke of the tension between trying to be dedicated to both your art and the church, which I think is potentially a very interesting topic, but I must say I was underwhelmed by his story.
I had always pictured Sunstone as this place where people with long beards and hippie clothes gathered to laugh bitterly about the church in dark rooms, but given its pop culture theme this year, I couldn’t stay away. It was actually a lot of fun – even if I was probably still among the most [...]
Just wanted to up date the information on the staged readings of my plays happening at UVSC. I’ve decided
to do only two plays instead of three (I thought three was a little intense), so we’re focusing on “The Reluctant Convert,” my bioplay about C.S. Lewis’ conversion to Christianity, and “The Fading Flower,” my play about [...]
The Book of Mormon Roundtable, held this evening at the Salt Lake public library, involved a different type of discussion of The Book of Mormon than I had anticipated, but it was still fairly interesting nonetheless. The panelists included Richard Bushman, Book of Mormon scholars Mark Thomas and Robert Rees, and two Episcopalian religious scholars, [...]
I’m a non-discriminatory laugher. By that I mean that I’ll laugh at anything I think is funny. I don’t have any ideological limitations on my sense of humor. For example, I don’t need to “agree” with the point of a joke to think it’s funny. I mean, I laughed all the way through Fahrenheit 9/11 [...]
The Nauvoo Theatrical Society will be holding fundraiser readings at 7 p.m. Aug. 25-26 and Sept. 8-9 in Scott Bronson’s backyard, 1482 South, 760 East, Orem, Utah.
I brought a lot home with me from my mission. Three examples:
(1) A pair of shoes that I knew I would never wear again. I put hundreds maybe even thousands of miles on them—the same pair every day for two years—in the cities and jungles of Brazil.