One-hundred eighty-two years ago today, Joseph Smith officially organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since then, as most of you know, it has grown exponentially. A flourishing culture of arts and letters has accompanied this growth.
As you may also know, April is National Poetry Month. Inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of [...]
Wilderness Interface Zone’s 2012 Spring Poetry Runoff Competition and Celebration opened its post pages for spring-themed poetry on March 26. Please come join the fun, either by submitting your best vernal verse in competition or non-competition categories or by reading and voting for your favorite poems. Prizes will be awarded for the Most Popular Poem [...]
I’m sure you had good intentions. Maybe you read two or three of the entries at the beginning of the contest. Or perhaps you came in at the end, but didn’t quite make it back to the earlier entries. And you really did mean to get around to it. But what if you haven’t read [...]
All 13 Mormon Lit Blitz finalists have been posted and voting is now open. Please do read the finalists (if you haven’t already) and cast your vote, which involves selecting your top five favorites and ranking them.
Note that I’m not asking you to vote for my story. I’m much more interested in the friends of [...]
If you’ll be in or near the Salt Lake area this coming Saturday (February 25) come join me and a baker’s dozen or so of my fellow poets and Fire in the Pasture contributors at Ken Sanders Rare Books for a group reading and book signing.
Here’s how Scott Renshaw stoked the event’s flames in [...]
My short short story “The Elder Who Wouldn’t Stop…” is now live and begging to be read.
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series is calling for abstracts on the subject of Ender’s Game and Philosophy. Deadline for abstracts is March 19, 2012.
A panel of Monsters & Mormons contributors will be discussing the anthology at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 11, 2012, at the Life, the Universe, and Everything conference held this year at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT.
The panel will be moderated by Dan Wells and feature Nathan Shumate, Eric James Stone, Jaleta Clegg, EC Buck [...]
