Read them and despair fellow Mormon Lit Blitz contest entrants. Wm eats your puny entries for breakfast. Behold: Zombie Porter Rockwell sniffed the air. etc. etc.

A guest post from Scott Hales explores common reactions to Mormon fiction and makes a plea for submissions that depict contemporary Mormon life.

AMV reminds its readers to get writing for the Mormon Lit Blitz Contest, which we endorse although we aren’t official sponsors.

Here is Heather Harper’s winning entry in the Monsters & Mormons Bedlamites contest.
hppt://www.fake-url-snopes.com/bedlamites
Claim: A group of men, chosen by Satan and made immortal to do
his work on Earth, attack and/or seduce the unwary.
Status: FALSE
Example (collected from the internet): “Holy cow, you guys, the
Bedlamites are REAL!  My roommate’s cousin was visiting and shared
this warning from her [...]

Here is Adam K. K. Figueira’s winning entry in the Monsters & Mormons Bedlamites contest.
For months now, reports have been circulating online of the discovery of a document attributed to Emma Smith discussing certain passages from the Book of Lehi, which of course was written on the 116 manuscript pages infamously lost by Martin Harris. [...]

Many thanks to all who entered the Bedlamites contest. Theric and I have each selected a winner. Congratulations to Heather  Harper and Adam K. K. Figueira! You each win an electronic copy of the Monsters & Mormons anthology as well as fame, honor and glory. In fact, we’ve written awards citations for you. But first [...]

4/13/2011 Update: We have decided to let you have two weekends to work on your submissions – the new deadline for the contest is 10 p.m. CDT, Monday, April 18, 2011.
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Like many of you, we were quite taken with Elder Holland’s use of the word “bedlamites” in the Sunday afternoon session of conference. It was an [...]

More than 3 months ago I announced here the first Portuguese-language Mormon short story contest. Now the period for making submissions has closed, and already the contest has exceeded expectations.