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Interview with Nebula & Hugo Award Nominee Nancy Fulda

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Eric James Stone

In last month’s SF&F Corner post, I interviewed Nebula Award nominee Brad R. Torgersen, and I promised an interview with the other LDS nominee, Nancy Fulda, in this month’s post.  However, between that post and this one, the Hugo Award … Continue reading →

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Interview with Nebula Award Nominee Brad R. Torgersen

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Eric James Stone

Established in 1965, the Nebula Awards are kind of like the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy. Nominees for the awards are chosen and then voted on by members of the professional organization for speculative fiction authors, the Science Fiction … Continue reading →

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Going Viral with Mormon Lit

Posted on February 10, 2012 by James Goldberg

I’ve just had a rather strange experience. On Monday night, I wrote up a blog post in response to a New York Times op ed piece that was pretty negative about Mormonism. The NYT piece was really nothing new–the central … Continue reading →

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Publishers Corner: Checking in with Signature Books

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Chris Bigelow

Guest post by Tom Kimball What a wonderful age we Mormons live in. Authors with LDS backgrounds like Elna Baker and Brady Udall are receiving national attention for their books, while Walter Kirn had Up in the Air turned into … Continue reading →

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Attila the Hun, Sunday School, and Sunstone

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Lisa Torcasso Downing

Last Sunday in Gospel Doctrine, the teacher read several quotations about leadership and forced us to guess from whence they came. The statements were things like, “[Leaders] must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter,” … Continue reading →

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Agency and Storytelling

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Angela Hallstrom

I just finished reading well over 100 entries to Irreantum’s fiction and creative nonfiction contests, narrowing them down to a set of semifinalists over which our contest committee can wrangle.  Reading all those stories and essays can be a bit … Continue reading →

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