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Sunstone’s Gift to Me and You

1.03.12

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Sunstone, quietly and without any fanfare that I’m aware of, has made it’s archives (save the few most recent issues) available for free online.
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Including the comics issue I edited! Which is primo content, I assure you.
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Sunstone has just provided an incredible resource which I encourage you to check out.
For free!
Although, speaking of [...]

Mormon Artist shutting down after next issue

5.19.11

In a post on his personal blog last week, Ben Crowder has announced that Mormon Artist will be shut down after the next issue, #16. Mormon Artist began just three years ago as an online magazine covering the arts by and for Mormons. Crowder says that the publication’s goal was to show that “there’s a [...]

Cracroft to stop writing Book Nook

5.04.11

After 20 years of writing about books written by “BYU faculty, staff, alumni, and members of BYU’s Board of Trustees,” emeritus BYU professor Richard H. Cracroft will stop writing his Book Nook column with the Summer issue of BYU Magazine.
This move ends one of the more consistent and long-term sources of information about Mormon literature, [...]

January’s “Mormon Drama Spotlight”

1.22.11

MORMON DRAMA SPOTLIGHT
Every month I also plan on setting little spotlights on little news items and tidbits about Mormon Drama along with the monthly Scripting Mormon Drama spot. So here goes our first crop of notables for the month of January:
- The Book of Mormon Musical… by the creators of South Park!
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In the footsteps of Stephenie Meyer?

12.13.10

This past week’s Publishers Weekly has an article about the national market “debut” of LDS YA novelist Ally Condie, whose sixth novel, Matched, was released by Dutton on November 30th. Released is an understatement.

Mormon Women’s Literary Tour Starts Monday

3.17.10

Since I’m behind and won’t have my weekly post on the History of Mormon Publishing this week, I thought I’d pass along the news about the Mormon Women’s Literary Tour that starts this coming Monday in California and proceeds to venues in Arizona and Utah through the end of the month.

The Whitney Awards, Irreantum submissions and an Angolan artist

2.11.10

A quick look at the Whitney Awards
By now, I’m sure all of AMV’s readers have seen the announcement of this year’s finalists for the Whitney Awards. Congratulations to AMV’s Jonathan Langford for being selected as a finalist in the General Fiction category. He is also eligible for the best novel by a new author award. [...]

Reviews: Farewell To Eden

1.22.10

My play Farewell To Eden, which has its closing performances this Friday, Saturday (matinee and evening, and Monday) at the Provo Theatre (105 East, 100 North in Provo), has been getting some good press. As some shameless self promotion and a plug for the closing performances, I wanted to share a couple of the positive reviews.
First, [...]