For those who want a taste of the Mormon Theater scene, this weekend is the last weekend for performances from two Utah based theater groups’ most recent offerings.
The first is from the New Play Project, a group I’ve been working with closely lately. This weekend they are performing a group of short plays called [...]

Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 8.  The theme of this year’s conference, which will be held at Brigham Young University, focuses on scriptures as literature and literature as scripture.  The featured speaker will be noted Bible scholar Harold Rawlings.
You can find the full program here:
http://www.mormonletters.org:80/events/2008schedule.htm
The conference is free and open to the public.  More information and a link to purchase [...]

The recent post on the quality of LDS fiction over on LDSPublisher mentioned a problem that we see too often in LDS books. Jeff Savage wrote:
I recently read a self-published book that was quite highly acclaimed. I liked the story, but I constantly found myself pulled out by typos, grammatical error, abrupt POV changes, and [...]

Saturday, February 16: I drove to Bluff, Utah to attend Terry Tempest William’s writers’ workshop at the Desert Rose Motel.  This event was part of the Bluff Arts Festival held back in November, when Terry cancelled because of illness.  In his introduction to her reading the night before, Father Ian of St. Christopher’s Episcopalian Mission in Bluff said [...]

I spent the evening of February 15 in Bluff, Utah listening to Terry Tempest Williams read from her new book Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World, due out later this year.

One of my early frustrations with trying to get up-to-speed with the world of Mormon narrative fiction was the lack of published plays. If one has access to an academic library (which I did for the first 9 years of my engagement with the field), it’s easy to get novels and short story collections through [...]

Angela Hallstrom’s debut novel Bound on Earth was recently published by Parables Publishing. Hallstrom lives in South Jordan, Utah, with her husband and four children. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and currently teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College. Hallstrom has been very active in the Mormon and Utah literary [...]

What makes literature erotic?
On a recent road trip with my younger sister, I needed a little help staying awake. She volunteered to read to me from the last few pages of a novel I had brought along. This was my first experience with D.H. Lawrence, which is just as well because I think at a [...]

When I decided to read Greil Marcus’ The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice, I didn’t do so with the intent to get an AMV post out of it. Reflecting Marcus’ particular progressive brand of cultural theory, the book focuses on the work of Philip Roth, David Lynch and David Thomas [...]