The Sunstone Education Foundation invites writers to enter its annual fiction contest, made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. All entries must relate to adult Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. All varieties of form are welcome. RULES 1. Up to three entries may be submitted by any one author. Send manuscript in …
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2016 Sunstone Fiction Contest
The Sunstone Education Foundation invites writers to enter its annual fiction contest, made possible by a grant from an anonymous donor. All entries must relate to adult Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. All varieties of form are welcome. RULES 1. Up to three entries may be submitted by any one author. Send manuscript in …
2015 Sunstone Fiction Contest Winners
The 2015 Sunstone Fiction Contest will go down in history as one of our most competitive ever. So competitive, in fact, that the judges couldn’t pick only three winners. Its was a veritable feast of fiction. In the end, this is how it shook out: 1st Place: “The Mandelbrot Set,” by Heidi Naylor (Wrote one …
Chariot Race in D-Wing
By Darin Cozzens It was those two wheelchairs in that nursing home in Billings last week that got me thinking again about the movie. Ben-Hur and I go way back. April 4, 1960. It was a Monday night. I remember because it was my eighth birthday, the age of accountability, according to Mormon doctrine. …
2015 Sunstone Fiction Contest Call for Entries
The Sunstone Education Foundation invites writers to enter its annual fiction contest, made possible by a grant from an anonymous donor. All entries must relate to adult Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. All varieties of form are welcome. RULES 1. Up to three entries may be submitted by any one author. Send manuscript in …
The Blood of Thy Son: Fiction
By Larry Menlove I SAT IN an oaken pew, third row from the front, left side, with my mother, the two of us alone as the deacons passed the sacrament. The yeasty air of broken bread hung in the chapel like a veil, and when the tray came to me, I partook of the bread …
Davinho
By Ryan McIlvain Art by Chad Danger Lindsay My first missionary companion was named Willer, a squat, wide-faced Brazilian from the south of the country. One morning he spread the map of our area on the apartment floor, swept his hand across the populous heart, and said, “I’ve tracted all this with other companions. Pretty …
Tabernacle of Flesh: Fiction
By Eric Freeze Tonight, the Brigham Young University men’s chorus would sing in the Mormon Tabernacle. When Darcy was growing up, he watched general conference—listening as the prophet spoke via satellite to everyone in the world. Between speakers, the Tabernacle Choir performed arrangements of the hymns: “For the Beauty of the Earth,” “How Great Thou …
Expiation: Fiction
By Richard Dutcher Art by Galen Dara Or right-click to download the audio file: Expiation CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTE: “The following confession was discovered October 7, 1977 in a clear glass bottle, corked, during the exhumation of the skeletal remains of a male, 5’10” tall, in a canyon approximately 7 miles North East of …
Singer and Saint: An Interview with Jeevan Sidhu
By James Goldberg Although best known for his work in the very modern medium of Bollywood film, Jeevan Sidhu is also a poet with a deep and abiding investment in his culture’s literary past. He has worked as a playback singer on films such as Pardes, Veer/Zaara, Dil Se, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, and …