Mormon Lit Blitz finalists named as 2023 AML Award Finalists

Congratulations to all 2023 AML Award finalists! We were particularly excited and proud to see so many former Mormon Lit Blitz finalists named this year.

Steven Peck's novel Heike's Void is a finalist for the AML Novel award. His Lit Blitz finalist pieces are:

• What Once Was (2019)

• "Kayden Abernathy's Journal Page 35-37, Partially Recovered from the House Fire 6/21/2013" (2013)

• "When the Bishop Started Killing Dogs" (2012)

• "Avek, Who Is Distributed" by Steven Peck (2012)

Lee Allred's collection Down the Arches of the Years is a finalist for the AML Short Fiction Collection Award. His Lit Blitz finalist pieces are:

• “Reformed Egyptian” (2021)

• “Beneath the Visiting Moon” (2018)

• "Golden Contact" (2016)

• “Where Nothing Lives But Crosses” (2014)

William Morris' collection The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories is a finalist for the AML Short Fiction Collection Award. His Lit Blitz finalist pieces are:

• “Last Tuesday” (2016)

• “The Joys of Onsite Apartment Building Management” (2015)

Lehua Parker's collection Sharks in an Inland Sea is a finalist for the AML Short Fiction Collection Award. Her Lit Blitz finalist pieces are:

• “Tatau” (Around the World, 2019)

• “Scrubbing Jesus’ Toilets” (2018)

• “Decorating Someone Else’s Service” (2015)

Tyler Chadwick's collection Litany with Wings is a finalist for the AML Poetry Award. His Lit Blitz finalist pieces are:

• "Leaving Egypt" (2016)

• “Three Meditations on Fatherhood” (2015)

Scott Hales' collection Hemingway in Paradise and other Mormon Poems (mentored and published by the Mormon Lit Lab!) is a finalist for the AML Poetry Award. His Lit Blitz finalist pieces are:

• “Brother and Sister” (2020)

• “The Hills of Heaven” (2019)

• “Child Star” (2015)

• “Living Scriptures” (2014)

• "Regimen" (2013)

Melissa Leilani Larson's play Mestiza, or Mixed is a finalist for the AML Drama Award. Her Lit Blitz finalist piece is:

• "Little Karl" (2012)

Congratulations again to all AML Award finalists this year! Winners will be announced at the AML Virtual Conference on April 29.