There’s just over a month left to prepare your unpublished manuscript to enter the Marilyn Brown novel award. The winner receives a $1,000 stipend. For details, visit Marilyn Brown’s author site as well as the UVU page for the award.
Make sure you check the full list of requirements, but it does need to be mainstream [...]

PRESS RELEASE:
Zion Theatre Company Presents The Opposing Wheel
Zion Theatre Company will be presenting national award winning playwright Mahonri Stewart’s new play The Opposing Wheel on September 2, 3, 5, 9 and 10 at 8pm, at the Castle Outdoor Amphitheatre, 1300 East Center Street (near Seven Peaks, above the State Hospital).
The Opposing Wheel is a play [...]

Last week, I visited the Gilgal Garden (749 East 500 South, Salt Lake City) for the first time, and I came away impressed and surprised. I knew quite a bit about the garden before my visit, from articles online and the initial campaign to preserve the garden in 1997. Still, the garden far exceeded my [...]

Peter Mountford’s A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism (see my GoodReads review ) has its problems, but the premise is not one of them: a bilingual but Americanized Chilean is hired by a venture capital fund to gather intelligence in Bolivia by posing as a journalist around the time of the 2005 presidential election. [...]

I started to comment on Tyler’s post, “Preach on, Sister Meyer.  Preach On.” But—look out—the comment mushroomed.  Adam G’s comment especially caught my attention. His question seems to be, is it possible to talk about poetry—especially in terms of hierarchies and other high-falutin’ standards for determining a poem’s worthiness—with language that doesn’t float above us [...]

Over at my personal blog I wrote a response to Lev Grossman’s recent WSJ article defending fantasy fiction. I think much of what I wrote over there applies to Mormon literature as well. In a nutgraf: trying to defend a minor literature (which is what Mormon literature is even though it’s status as such [...]