“Faded Garden” by Emily Harris Adams
I don’t remember the time of nameless animals. The lions have been lions too long for even Adam to think of them as anything else. My calloused feet have forgotten the luxury of a thornless silt-soft...
View Article“The Five Year Journal” by Katherine Cowley
This journal belongs to Hannah Bolt (Rinehart!) February 20th 2010: I know you’re supposed to start journals at the beginning of the year, but this was on discount at Deseret Book....
View Article“Disability, Death, or Other Circumstance,” by Annaliese Lemmon
1. My husband is not a cockroach. If I had woken up next to Kafka’s “monstrous vermin,” I would have run and sprayed an entire can of Raid into the bedroom. As it was, I thought the six foot rabbit...
View Article“The Joys of Onsite Apartment Building Management” by William Morris
Someone had made a spray paint stain on the second floor landing in the stairwell of Building B, and Maria couldn’t get it out. It was brick red and shaped like a slumping letter ‘M’. Clearly, some...
View Article“Echo of Boy” by Darlene Young
My son hunches into the storm in his oversized coat to collect fast offerings, a two-hour route …..because the other mother’s sons stay in when it’s cold. …..He is mine. ………..His wrists out-hang his...
View Article“Decorating Someone Else’s Service,” by Lehua Parker
Last night my daughter stormed into the kitchen spitting nails after her Young Women’s activity. “Do you know what we did?” “Is this a trick question?” I asked. “Do you need bail money?” “No.” I put...
View Article“Should Have Prayed For a Canoe” by Julia Jeffery
As soon as Brother Gardner opened the door, Shelley held out Sister Black’s old flip phone to him. “Do you have anything bigger or better than this?” she asked. “Something you’ll trade us?” Abbie...
View Article“Mother” by Merrijane Rice
You haven’t left yet, but when you do I’ll remind the children how you made sandwiches on warm wheat bread, stocked popsicles in your outdoor freezer, filled closets with homemade quilts. I’ll tell...
View ArticleLit Blitz Voting Instructions
We have enjoyed all twelve finalists. But we only have one Grand Prize. Help us decide which piece wins this year’s Lit Blitz by emailing a ranking of your four favorite pieces to...
View Article2015 Mormon Lit Blitz Winner
Declaring a winner in a literary contest is silly in many ways. As the ballots and comments make clear, different pieces resonated with readers for different reasons–a piece might resonate with you...
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2016 Mormon Lit Blitz Call for Entries
The Mormon Lit Blitz is the world’s premier contest for Mormon Micro-Literature. Held annually, the contest has helped expose fickle online readers to engaging Mormon flash fiction, poetry, short...
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2016 Mormon Lit Blitz: The Longlist
We had an excellent batch of submissions this year, and the entire judging team read the entries over the past four days. Due to the quality of entries, we’re not quite down to the promised twelve...
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2016 Mormon Lit Blitz Finalists and Schedule
The Fifth Annual Mormon Lit Blitz will run from May 23rd to June 4th. We posted the longlist last week, and now we’ve narrowed the entries to the final twelve pieces which we will publish. The...
View Article“Spurious Revelations,” by Niklas Hietala
May 15, 1933 Brigham City, Utah Dear Samuel, It is usually a pleasure to receive a letter from you, but the news you sent has made me worry. As soon as I read your account of the bronze head, I took it...
View Article“On the Death of a Child,” by Merrijane Rice
Being a mother also, I know I can’t uproot the pain planted in your chest, or untangle your frayed thoughts. I can’t sweep the darkness from under your sheltered edges or smooth peace over you like a...
View Article“Worthy World” by Tanya Hanamaikai
What Earth! This masterpiece of creatures– His medium: the breath of life. See, by the talent of His hand, falling leaf, falling water, or fallen man. What Worth! This satisfaction of soul– His word:...
View Article“There Wrestled a Man in Parowan” by Wm Morris
I was there the night Brigham “The Battling Bishop” Houston’s winning streak finally came to an end. It was the evening of Oct. 13, 1939. I had just been ordained a teacher the Sunday before. To be...
View Article“Valley 176th Ward” by Eliza Porter
The scriptures were the motivation for a mighty change in the Valley 176th ward. Brother Dalton wanted to protect the women and children. He was very passionate about their safety and brought that up...
View Article“Walking Among the Legend People” by Marianne Hales Harding
In Bryce Canyon, nature’s flip book of erosion, Hoodoos crowd the amphitheater dripping sunset colors, waxing and waning (though truly always waning), Piute Legend People cycling through the life of a...
View Article“Daughters of Ishmael” by Annaliese Lemmon
Mahalath smiled as she watched each of her sisters by the fire. Whatever the feud between Laman and Nephi, worsened with the death of Lehi, at least the daughters of Ishmael could still enjoy time...
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