Mormon Lit Blitz
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“El Don” / "The Gift" by R. de la Lanza
“Refried Dreams” by Cristie Cowles Charles
“Foolish and Wise” by Lisa Barker
“The 37th Ward Relief Society Leftovers Exchange” by Liz Busby
“Harmony’s Victory” by Hillary Stirling
“Aboard the Nursery Barge” by Sarah Chow
“Should Have Prayed for a Canoe” by Julia Jeffery
“Mother” by Merrijane Rice
“Happy Enough” by Amanda Erdmann
“Joseph and Emma Grow Old Together” by Eric Jepson
“Missionary Weekly Report for 28 March-3 April, Mumbai 1st Branch” by Mattathias Westwood
“Escondida” / "Hidden" by Jesús Baldemar Liévano
"Tastes of Hope and Sorrow" by James Goldberg
A
“Pride ” by Hillary Stirling
“Valley 176th Ward” by Eliza Porter
“Celestial Accounting” by Katherine Cowley
"The History of a Christmas Carol" by Jeanine Bee
“Victor” by David Hurtado
“Final Exam” by Jared Forsyth
“2 Coats” by Jared Forsyth
“Sugar Free” by Emily Debenham
“Decorating Someone Else’s Service” by Lehua Parker
B
“The Investigator” by Jeanine Bee
“Daughters of Ishmael” by Annaliese Lemmon
“The Wall of Time” (“La Muralla del Tiempo”) by Camila Andrea Fernández
“Echo of Boy” by Darlene Young
“Thick and Thin” by Vilo Westwood
"When the Bishop Started Killing Dogs" by Steven Peck
C
“Un dios en quien confiar” (in Spanish and in English translation) by Gabriel González Núñez
Grand Prize: "In the Depths of the Heart" by Moramay Alva
“How Do We Make Sense of What Will Be When We Hold Remnants of What Once Was?” by Steven Peck
D
“We Must Overcome” by Jonathon Penny
“Angry Sunbeam” by Eric Jepson
“Building an Ark” by Merrijane Rice
Created Feb 11, 2026
Dive into the vibrant world of "Mormon Lit Blitz," a curated collection of short fiction and poetry that explores faith, family, and the everyday miracles within the Latter-day Saint experience. From the poignant introspection of "Viewing Christmas Displays as a Family, Post-Divorce" and the whimsical "Curelom Riders" to the profound explorations in "The Hearts of the Fathers" and "Three Meditations on Fatherhood," this list showcases a diverse range of voices. Discover tales of spiritual journeys, personal struggles, and the quiet joys that shape lives, all captured within the dynamic landscape of contemporary Mormon literature.
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“Lifecycle of Strawberries” by Michelle Graabek Wallace
“El Fugitivo” / "The Fugitive" by Mario Montani
“Thief” by Lee Ann Setzer
“The Joseph Lines” by Michael Hicks
“Creature from the Back Lagoon” by Lee Allred
“Conversion Story” by Inari Porka
“Muling Pagkabuhay” (He is Risen) by Maria Evelyn Quilla Soleta
“Calma dominical” (Sunday Calm) by Débora Loiza
“Galletas de avena” (Oatmeal Cookies) by Ana Ruth Enriques
"おじいさんのもの" (Grandpa's Member) by Tokuzawa Aiko
“Chickens without End” by Julia Jeffrey
“Cristo en el huerto de Getsemaní” by Gabriel González Núñez
“Magical Thinking” by Janci Patterson
“A Ward House Stirring” by William Morris
“Use It in Our Daily Lives” by Lara Niedermeyer
“Mad Poet Passes” by J.S. Absher
"Easter Morning" by Merrijane Rice
"Multiversal Mother's Day" by Annaliese Lemmon
"Three Saints Days" by Michelle Graabek-Wallace
"Viewing Christmas Displays as a Family, Post-Divorce" by Micah Cozzens
"Bundling Up” by Lara Niedermeyer
“Tres Microcuentos Mormones" / "Three Mormon Microstories" by Mario Montani
“Marriage” by Michael Hicks
“Nexus of Everything” by Merrijane Rice
“What Have You Against Being Baptized” by W. O. Hemsath
“The Apocalypse of Kemet III” by Hillary Stirling
“This Time and This Season” by Chanel Earl
“Remote Control Mama” by Becca Birkin
“There Is No Release” by Jonathan Olfert
“The Other Commander” by W. O. Hemsath
“Oh, a Dove” by Aiko Tokuzawa
“Golden Plate Controversy Erupts with ‘Mormon Storm’” by Devin Galloway
“O Nosso Cão Stromberg” (“Our Dog Stromberg“) by César Augusto Medina Fortes
“Brother and Sister” by Scott Hales
“Two Missions” (“Duas Missões”) by Andreza Castro
“Laban's Funeral” by Chris Bissett
“Parable of the 10 Virgins” by Michelle Graabek
“Grafted Branches” by Jeanine Bee
“O Homem e a Terra” by Siviano Stalon Fortes
“Leah at the Edges” by Merrijane Rice
“Hie to Kolob” by Emily Harris Adams
Announcement of Contest Winners
“The Lord’s Multiform Prayer” by Gabriel González Núñez
“Not of Necessity” by Jeanine Bee
“Sacrament in Solitude” by Marianne Hales Harding
“Perspective” by Jonathon Penny
First Runner-up: "Birch" by Jonatan I. Walton
Second Runner-up: "The memory of that rain I do not remember" by Santiago Vázquez
“Three Generations of Sonder” by Chanel Earl
“Airplanes that Crashed: A Book of Mormon Coloring Book” by Jared Forsyth
“Paradisiacal Glory” by Katherine Cowley
“The Seven Deadly Housewarmers” by Emily Harris Adams
“As minhas férias na ilha de Santo Antão” (in Portuguese and in English translation) by César Augusto Medina Fortes
“A Sunday at Laginha” (“Um Domingo na Laginha”) by César Augusto Medina Fortes
“The Secret Friend” (“O Amigo Secreto”) by Amanda Araújo de Castro
“Proof That Sister Greeley Is a Witch (Even Though Mormons Don’t Believe in Witches)” by Wm Morris
“On the Death of a Child” by Merrijane Rice
“Worthy World” Tanya Hanamaikai
“There Wrestled a Man in Parowan” by Wm Morris
“Forty Years” by Jeanna Mason Stay
“Ghost” by Merrijane Rice
“Requiem for Those People Who Lived Briefly in Your Ward” by Rose Green
“Second Coming” by Michael Hicks
“The Pear Tree” by Stan Absher
“Earthworm Lore” by Stan Absher
“Future Genealogists” by Madison Beckstrand
“A Espera” (The Waiting) by Suzana Mcauchar
"Os Cinco Anjos do Éden" (The Five Angels of Eden) by Claudio Antão Ribeiro de Oliveira
“Além da Visão” (Beyond the Vision) by Edgar Farinon
“Tower of Babel” by Darlene Young
“The Fourth Ward Filibuster” by Kevin Klein
“Every Member a Missionary” by Selina Forsyth
“O Caixão de Nhô Jon Anton” by César Augusto Medina Fortes
“The Gift of Undoing” by Katherine Cowley
“Ministering Blood Brother” by Terrance V. McArthur
“Gleaners” by James Goldberg
“The Gift to Be Healed” by Annaliese Lemmon
10th Annual Lit Blitz (2021)
“116 Pages” by Merrijane Rice
“Unfit Mother of the Year” by Susan Law Corpany
“Reformed Egyptian” by Lee Allred
“Weight of Souls” by Selina Forsyth
“Resurrection by Easter 2020” by Selina Forsyth
“Perfection is a Fullness” by Jeanine Bee
“Orpheus Sings to Mary and Martha” by Emily Harris Adams
“Family Tree” by Merrijane Rice
“Final Report” by Mattathias Westwood
“Portal Friends” by Annaliese Lemmon
“Part Heaven” by Madison Beckstrand
“In the Locker Room at the Temple” by Darlene Young
“Before the Healing” by Merrijane Rice
“Separation” by Mark Penny
“The Casting Out of Spirits” by Jeanine Bee
“The Hills of Heaven” by Scott Hales
“Documentary Appendix 1” (“Anexo documental I”) by Gabriel González Núñez
“New Rhythm” by Tanya Hanamaikai
“The Last Swing” by Sheldon Lawrence
“Fresh Courage Take” by Bradeigh Godfrey
“Leaving Egypt” by Tyler Chadwick
“Best Wedding Advice Ever” by Heather Young
“Remnant” by Sarah Dunster
“Low Tide” by Merrijane Rice
“TIME a particle” (“TIEMPO una partícula”) by Citlalli H. Xochitiotzin
“Tatau” by Lehua Parker
“The Creation Workshop” (創造教室) by Mitsushige Takaki (高木光茂)
“Counsel” by Faith Kershisnik
“After the Fast” by Wm Morris
“Beneath the Visiting Moon” by Lee Allred
“Still Clean” by Sherry Work
"Natural Coloring" by Marianne Hales Harding
"Ruby's Gift" by Emily Debenham
"Numbers" by Melody Burris
"Maurine Whipple, Age Sixteen, Takes a Train North" by Theric Jepson
"Release" by Wm Morris
“The Elder Who Wouldn’t Stop” by Wm Morris
“The Road Not Taken” by Sandra Tayler
“Oil of Gladness” by Kathryn Soper
“The Shoe App” by Emily Debenham
“Cada Regalo Perfecto” by Deja Earley
“The Hearts of the Fathers” by Jeanine Bee
“Red Rock” by Marianne Hales Harding
“Rumors of Wars” by Zachary Lunn
“From the East” by Merrijane Rice
“The Five Year Journal” by Katherine Cowley
“Disability, Death, or Other Circumstance” by Annaliese Lemmon
“The Joys of Onsite Apartment Building Management” by William Morris
“Spring Hill” by Luisa Perkins
“A Voice Not Crying in the Wilderness” by Jonathon Penny
“Where Nothing Lives But Crosses” by Lee Allred
“Eyelight” by Mark Penny
“Slippery” by Stephen Carter
“In a Nutshell” by Doug Staker
“And Through the Woods” by Jennifer Eichelberger
"Regimen" by Scott Hales
"Celestial Terms" by Sarah Dunster
"The Accidental Jaywalker" by Ben Crowder
“The Gift of Tongues“ by Annaliese Lemmon
“Branch 9 ¾” by Kaki Olsen
“Golden Contact” by Lee Allred
“The Back Row” by Kelli Swofford Nielsen
“Last Tuesday” by William Morris
“Three Meditations on Fatherhood” by Tyler Chadwick
“Child Star” by Scott Hales
“Faded Garden” by Emily Harris Adams
“20/20” by Lindsay Denton
“The Primary Temple Trip” by Laura Hilton Craner
“Curelom Riders” by Annaliese Lemmon
“Living Scriptures” by Scott Hales
“Yahweh: Prologue to the Temple” by Jonathon Penny
"Actionable Intelligence" by Jonathon Penny
"In Which Eve Names Everything Else" by Katherine Cowley
"When I Rise" by Kimberly Hartvigsen
"Little Karl" by Melissa Leilani Larson
"Something Practical" by Melody Burris
"The ReActivator" by Wm Morris
"Romance de Abinadí" (Ballad of Abinadi) by Mario R. Montani
"The Defection of Baby Mixo" by Mark Penny
"Avek, Who Is Distributed" by Steven Peck
“The Trail” by Stephen Carter
“Daughter of a Boto” by Katherine Cowley
“In Remembrance” by Merrijane Rice
“Platinum Tears” by Marianne Hales Harding
"Dumb Idols" by Hillary Stirling
"Sister" by Merrijane Rice
"Kayden Abernathy's Journal Page 35-37, Partially Recovered from the House Fire 6/21/2013" by Steven Peck
"Birthright" by Emily Harris Adams
"Waiting" by Katherine Cowley
“In Bulk” by Marilyn Nielson
“No Substitute for Chocolate” by Jeanna Mason Stay
“Second Coming,” by Emily Harris Adams
“Stillborn” by Merrijane Rice
“The Gloaming” by Kerry Spencer
“Babel” by Jonathon Penny
"Oaxaca" by Anneke Garcia
“De amor y de piedras” (Of Love and Stones) by Maximiliano Martínez
“Thy Name Shall No More Be” by Whitney Hemsath
“Through a Glass” by Alixa Brobbey
“Sonata in Three Movements” by Jeanine Bee
“Blood in the Garden” by Whitney Hemsath
“Germination” by Sarah Dunster
"d. 11 April 1847 Winter Quarters" by Ali Benson Moulton
"Vlad Tidings" by Lee Allred
“The Journey” and “Lucifer’s Monologue” (“LÄHEME RÄNDAMA” and “LUTSIFERI MONOLOOG”) by Aivar Lembit
“Abrahamic Sacrifice” by Annaliese Lemmon
"Things Which Are Not of Worth” by Jeanine Bee
“Collapse” by Greg Brooks
“A Young Mother’s Sacrament” by Emily Harris Adams
“Antelife” by Dan Mabee
“The Cost” by Liz Busby
“Nine Sunsets” by Chanel Earl
“Auxese” (An Exercise in Hyperbole) by Ana Claudia de Souza de Oliveira
“Shaken” by Jhasmin De Castro
“The Sound of Water” (「 水音」) by Aiko Tokuzawa (徳沢愛子)
“Three Dogs in the Afterlife” by Luisa Perkins
“Scrubbing Jesus’ Toilets” by Lehua Parker
“A Perfect Voice” by Katherine Cowley
“Spurious Revelations” by Niklas Hietala
“Walking Among the Legend People” by Marianne Hales Harding
“Rebecca, la Misionera” / "Rebecca, the Missionary" by Arisael Rivera
"A Christmas in Orderville" by Scott Hales
"Twenty-five Valentine's Days Ago" by Lara Niedermeyer
"A Wolfenoot Carol" by Jeanna Mason Stay
"La Celebracion"/"The Celebration" by Mario Montani
“His Mother Knew It” by Sarah Chow
“Fairies” by Ilse Eskelsen
“The Keeper of the Prison” by Isabelle Cook
“Living Room” by Merrijane Rice