2018 Eugene England Personal Essay Contest Winners
Sunstone is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest. The competition has been drawing together the best work ... Read more.
Salvator Mundi
By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of ... Read more.
Tower
By Ryan McIlvain Ryan McIlvain is the author of Elders (2013) and The Radicals (2018). A former Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford, McIlvain has taught writi... Read more.
Words Matter: Lines Written in a Pew
By Anita Tanner This is how religion kills language: it mounts a thought, drives and whips it to a frenzied destination high on a mountain peak—... Read more.
A Dove and a Serpent
By Tom Kimball Tom Kimball is an English student at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio where he also works as a staff volunteer at the Kirtland Temple... Read more.
420 North
By Alex Peterson Alex Peterson was born of goodly parents. He lives in Ephraim, Utah with his wife and offspring, with whom he likes to hang. &nbs... Read more.
An LGBTQ Borderlander
By D. Jeff Burton D. Jeff Burton is the author of For Those Who Wonder and a former member of the Sunstone board of directors. In this colu... Read more.
Poured Out Like Water
By Charlotte Johnson Willian Charlotte Johnson Willian is a child/family advocate who resides in the southern hills of Indiana, where she is surrounded by the t... Read more.
I Was Raised by Communists!
By R. A. Christmas Thank God—because my sweet grandpa admired Senator Bob Taft, disliked FDR, and was all for “shipping the Negroes back to Af... Read more.
That’s Alright, Mama, Just Anyway You Do
By J. S. Absher Mama said she just had to see Elvis as he traveled back to Memphis by whistle-stop: He’ll be something, she sighed, in his dress... Read more.
Greenwashing In Zion
By Mark Thomas Mark Thomas earned an MBA from Northwestern University, and works professionally in public finance. He is the author of Digging in Cummorah: R... Read more.
Own Your Religion
By Gregory A. Prince Gregory A. Prince is the author of Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (University of Utah, 2016), David O. McKay an... Read more.
Arnold Lobel and Me
By Martha Taysom Martha Taysom is a retired scholar of American intellectual history and the mother of five children, of whom Matt is the fourth. ... Read more.
Low and the Hermeneutics of Silence
By Jacob Bender Jacob Bender recently completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa. He has previously published in Dialogue, Sunstone, Peculiar Pages,... Read more.
Jesus Christ (Almost) Visits the Mormons
By Ryan Shoemaker Ryan Shoemaker’s story collection Beyond the Lights is forthcoming from No Record Press. T.C. Boyle called it a collection that “moves eff... Read more.
Flesh, Language, Sacrament: Three Meditations on the Communal Meal
By Tyler Chadwick Tyler Chadwick lives in Ogden, Utah with his wife, Jess, and their four daughters. He is the editor of Fire in the Pasture: 21st Centur... Read more.
2018 Sunstone Fiction Contest Winners
It seems like the Sunstone Fiction Contest grows more every year–producing more submissions and better quality! Thus, these writers deserve a special round of... Read more.
Call for Entries: 2018 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest
Sunstone is pleased to announce the 2018 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest In the spirit of Gene’s writings, entries should relate to Latter-day ... Read more.
2018 Sunstone Fiction Contest
The Sunstone Education Foundation invites writers to enter its annual fiction contest, made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. All entries mu... Read more.
Sunstone Is Now a Podcast, Too!
Dear Sunstone Subscriber, We love providing you with the best of Mormon thought and experience in Sunstone magazine, and now we’re excited to make our content... Read more.