As always, we owe thanks to all the writers who submitted to this year’s Mormon Lit Blitz and to the many readers who read the finalists, shared them on social media, and cast votes in the contest. This year, we also want to thank the core group of supporters who have pledged a monthly contribution to the Mormon Lit Lab Patreon account: we’ve almost reached the funding goal to add a second contest this fall!
To wrap up this contest, we’ve counted votes and after a historically tight race the top four stories are:
4. “Missionary Weekly Report for 28 March-3 April, Mumbai 1st Branch, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” by Mattathias Westwood
3. “Three Dogs in the Afterlife” by Luisa Perkins
2. “Beneath the Visiting Moon” by Lee Allred
and…
1. “A Perfect Voice” by Katherine Cowley
Congratulations!
We’d also like to recognize the winner of this year’s special “Judge’s Choice” Award, chosen by literary scholar and longtime Mormon Literature teacher Kylie Turley: “Proof That Sister Greeley Is a Witch (Even Though Mormons Don’t Believe in Witches)” by William Morris. You can read the complete citation, with honorable mentions of other finalists, here.
We hope many of you will join us this fall/winter for our next contest, with a theme to be selected by patrons of the Mormon Lit Lab, and next spring/summer for the 8th Annual Mormon Lit Blitz.
I”m not surprised it was a close vote–so many great finalists this year.
Congratulations to some wonderful writers!
Congratulations to Katherine, all the other contest winners, the finalists, and everyone who wrote a story and entered it (that in itself is an accomplishment!), but I think the real winners are the MoLit Blitz readers. Some great stories this year!
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