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Tag: Fiction

  • by Scott Hales
  • Posted on June 25, 2013

Fifteen Things You Should Know Before You Try to Write Mormon Missionary Fiction

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  • by Scott Hales
  • Posted on November 27, 2012

Mormon LitCrit: From Imitation to Innovation; or, Why Mormon Writers Should Move Out of the Basement

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  • by Scott Hales
  • Posted on October 23, 2012

Mormon Literature and the Anxiety of “Passing”

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  • by Scott Hales
  • Posted on August 28, 2012

Novelist Nephi; or Why We Still Need the “Author of ‘Added Upon'”

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  • by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury
  • Posted on August 31, 2011

Irreantum Contest Winners

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  • by Jack Harrell
  • Posted on January 28, 2011

Mormon LitCrit: Public and Private Selves in Fiction

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