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Mormon Lit Blitz 10th Anniversary Announcement + 2021 Longlist
It’s easy to count the ways that 2020 was a hard year: pandemic, quarantine, economic instability, civil unrest. Looking back, it’s just...
Liz Busby
May 18, 20213 min read


Mormon Lit Lab: Book Mentoring Program
We’re excited to take the next step. This year, we’re mentoring four prose writers and four poets as they develop books. We’ve already...
Liz Busby
May 17, 20214 min read
10th annual Mormon Lit Blitz Call for Submissions
Since 2012, the annual Mormon Lit Blitz contest has encouraged people to use Latter-day Saint ideas, values, beliefs, or imagery in very...
Liz Busby
Feb 6, 20212 min read
Giving Birth to Books: A Call for Proposals
In Nauvoo, women like Ann Carling, Vienna Jacques, and Patty Bartlett Sessions were called to an important work: serving as midwives for...
Liz Busby
Dec 10, 20203 min read
Anthology Online Release Party
If you haven’t already seen, we wanted to share the good news. Our Kickstarter ended today, after funding early–and passing both of our...
Liz Busby
Dec 3, 20201 min read


Anthology Kickstarter!
Yesterday, we launched a Kickstarter campaign for the anthology of finalists from the first five years of the Mormon Lit Blitz and...
Liz Busby
Nov 6, 20201 min read
Palabras de Mormón contest winners in El Pregonero de Deseret
This summer, we published English translations alongside original Spanish texts for the top three stories in the Palabras de Mormón...
Liz Busby
Oct 27, 20201 min read
The memory of that rain I do not remember by Santiago Vázquez
Read the original version in Spanish . “Palabras de Mormón” is a Spanish-language Mormon literature contest, which was a collaboration...
Liz Busby
Aug 26, 20201 min read
Recuerdo de la lluvia que no recuerdo — Santiago Vázquez
Read the English translation here . Recuerdo de la lluvia que no recuerdo Santiago Vázquez Y entonces comenzó a llover pétalos de flores...
Liz Busby
Aug 26, 20201 min read
First Runner-up: Birch by Jonatan I. Walton
Read the original version in Spanish. “Palabras de Mormón” is a Spanish-language Mormon literature contest, which was a collaboration...
Liz Busby
Aug 25, 20205 min read
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