Liner Notes: Dark Watch
The fall 2013 issue of Dialogue went live yesterday to electronic subscribers. Print editions are in the mail (or will soon be). I’m delighted and a bit awed that this issue devotes more than 20 pages...
View ArticleThe opportunity for Mormon fiction writers
It’s simple: Drawing on Mormon elements to make things interesting, exciting for a national audience is the easiest opportunity and one worth doing. Speaking to the mass American Mormon audience and...
View ArticleReplacing Irreantum: Scope/Positioning
Earlier this month Margaret Young confirmed that Irreantum , the literary journal of the Association for Mormon Letters is now defunct. For all I know there may be a crack team of AMLers working to...
View ArticleReplacing Irreantum: Staffing/Production
This a continuation of my analysis of what the barriers involved in replacing Irreantum, the now defunct literary journal of the Association for Mormon Letters. Click here for background and the first...
View ArticleReplacing Irreantum: Generating Submissions
This a continuation of my analysis of the barriers involved in replacing Irreantum, the now defunct literary journal of the Association for Mormon Letters. Previous installments: Scope/Positioning |...
View ArticleReplacing Irreantum: Financial Models
This is a continuation of my analysis of the barriers involved in replacing Irreantum, the now defunct literary journal of the Association for Mormon Letters. Other installments: Scope/Positioning |...
View ArticleReplacing Irreantum: Starting Up
This is a continuation of my analysis of the barriers involved in replacing Irreantum, the now defunct literary journal of the Association for Mormon Letters. Other installments: Scope/Positioning |...
View ArticleReplacing Irreantum: Readership
This post brings to an end my analysis of the barriers involved in replacing Irreantum, the now defunct literary journal of the Association for Mormon Letters. Other installments: Scope/Positioning |...
View ArticleBYU Studies review of the Matched Trilogy
My review of Ally Condie’s Matched trilogy is now available as a free download at the BYU Studies website. If you are not a subscriber, but would either like a print copy of the entire journal or a PDF...
View ArticleAuthor interview with Lisa Torcasso Downing
AMV readers may mainly know Lisa Torcasso Downing from Mo-lit circles, including the comments section here and at the AML blog, and her work as fiction editor for Sunstone. But Lisa also writes fiction...
View ArticleArtists own special temptations
Theric posted a link this The New York Review of Books article on Auden to Twitter and Facebook earlier today. It’s worth reading for many reasons but especially for this line: Far from imagining that...
View ArticleTom Nysetvold on the Mormon Texts Project 2.0
Tom Nysetvold has taken on the yeoman work of starting back up the Mormon Texts Project. He was kind enough to answer some questions about it. Why did you decide to resurrect the Mormon Texts Project?...
View ArticleCulture and being in, but not of the world
As I was reading the comments to Scott H’s recent AML blog post Moving Culture, I had the following thought: In modern Mormon American communities when the notion of “be in the world but not of it” is...
View ArticleHow to beat me in the Mormon Lit Blitz
Friends of AMV: you have a singular opportunity facing you — the chance to increase my currently dangerously low levels of humility by beating me soundly in the Mormon Lit Blitz. Mormon Artist is...
View ArticleHelp track Whitney Awards-eligible titles
Every year there are titles that would be eligible to be judged for the Whitney Awards except for the fact that they don’t receive enough nominations. This sometimes includes titles that are published...
View ArticleMormon Arts Sunday is this Sunday, June 8
Brothers and sisters I invite you to celebrate Mormon Arts Sunday this Sunday, June 8, 2014, and, from now on (unless we change it again) every second Sunday in June. BACKGROUND Mormon Arts Sunday...
View ArticleInterest gauge: anthology of Mormon alternate history
Here’s the bad news: I don’t have the time and energy to do a second Monsters & Mormons anthology. I believe that there are a few people who will be disappointed by this. I know there’s at least...
View ArticleMy personal favorite AMV posts at year 10
Back in 2009, I listed my personal favorite AMV posts — one for each of the co-bloggers. In honor of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the blog, I have updated that list. In some cases, items are...
View ArticleOuttakes from my Artistic Preaching interview
AMV turned 10 this month so Scott Hales interviewed me for his blog Artistic Preaching. I appreciate the publicity, but am sad about the questions and answers that hit the cutting room floor. So I have...
View ArticleVote in the 2014 Mormon Lit Blitz
Voting in the 2014 Mormon Lit Blitz contest ends at midnight Saturday, July 5. Please take a few minutes to vote. Here are the links you need: Voting instructions for the 2014 Mormon Lit Blitz My...
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