The Mormon Women’s Literary Tour returns to Utah for a repeat performance at Sunstone! If you missed readings in California, Arizona, and Utah this spring, take this chance to hear from established and new Mormon women writers. JULIE J. NICHOLS, WHITNEY MOWER, ELISA PULIDO, ELIZABETH PINBOROUGH, HOLLY WELKER, JOANNA BROOKS
Speaker: Julie J. Nichols
SL09111 “Raked”: Feminist Creative Nonfiction and the Evolution of Consciousness, LDS Feminist and Otherwise
Whitney Nelson reads excerpts from her feminist nonfiction piece “Raked,” which tells the story of her experience as a young female athlete finding herself on the fringes of LDS beliefs and culture both before and after her parents’ divorce. Nichols analyzes “Raked” as both nonfiction and individual narrative using Owen Barfield’s argument that in the …