This panel will focus on the pros and cons of writing and publishing a tell-all, “confessional” memoir in the Mormon milieu—this culture of “truth-telling.” What are the ramifications of making private thoughts and actions into a public record? How does this follow D&C 42:88: “And if thy brother or sister offend thee, thou shalt take him or her between him or her and thee alone”? Beginning with the premise that the memoirist/ personal essayist is an artist attempting to find the essential “core within the core” of his or her own humanness, the panel will explore the subject of “truth-telling” in its various incarnations—both public and private—and the individual experience of its panelists.

PHYLLIS BARBER, HOLLY WELKER, KEVEN HOLDWORTH, STEPHEN CARTER, BRUCE JORGENSEN