When I was a student at BYU some enterprising student published a hardcover guide titled The Mormon Media Market, which followed the model of the Writer’s Digest annual guide Writer’s Market (now the subject of numerous spin-offs and copy-cat works). I thought at the time that this was a good idea, although it was clear [...]
The annual meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters will take place 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the library at Utah Valley University in Orem. Attendance is free — although if you want to attend the luncheon, it’ll cost you $12 and you should either R.S.V.P. today if you want to pay at [...]
Six Theological Pillars for the Art of God’s People
Now, if that’s not a daunting title, I don’t know what is. It was enough to pique my curiosity, though, and I left work early on Friday, November 7th to attend Vern Swanson’s thusly-named presentation at the Biennial Art, Belief, Meaning Symposium, Picturing the Divine, at the [...]
The theme for this year’s AML Annual Meeting was “Scripture as Literature and Scripture in Literature.” This theme provided for the usual wide variety of papers, but the marked emphasis on scripture evoked a different atmosphere from other AML meetings. One attendee I met while I waited to register told me that she had fasted before coming to the conference.
The Association for Mormon Letters awards are made to writing, film, and drama published or produced during the previous year and are awarded during AML’s Annual Meeting, usually held in the late winter or early spring of each year. The winners of the 2007 awards are:
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 [...]
Children and young adult lit author Rick Walton gave the plenary address at this year’s conference. Rick is a funny guy. He’s very straight-faced and physically still, even when giving a plenary address, but when he talks the words fly fast, laden with both humor and urgency.
In the July 1977 issue of Ensign, President Kimball said:
We are proud of the artistic heritage that the Church has brought to us from its earliest beginnings, but the full story of Mormonism has never yet been written nor painted nor sculpted nor spoken. It remains for inspired hearts and talented fingers yet to reveal [...]