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Did you know... that James Goldberg co-founded the Mormon Lit Blitz, an annual writing competition for very short works of Mormon fiction?
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... that James Goldberg co-founded an annual writing competition for very short Mormon fiction called the Mormon Lit Blitz? Source: Introductory material: "The Mormon Lit Blitz contest has tapped into a rich reservoir of Mormon short-short fiction, reaching a milestone this year with the publication of its first anthology. With a 1000-word limit, final winners selected by a popular vote, and special rounds for translated and translingual work, the contest has yielded a panorama of diverse results during its first decade. Co-founder James Goldberg answers Dialogue’s fiction editor Jennifer Quist’s questions about this ongoing project to advance the reading and writing of Mormon literature."Q&A with James Goldberg, Co-founder of Mormon Lit Blitz
Overall: I am only approving the original hook. The contest in ALT1 doesn't seem major and it was an honorable mention on top of that. SL93 (talk) 05:32, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
James Goldberg and I attended the same creative fiction workshop in 2010 or 2011 when we were both in graduate school in English at BYU. We weren't close, but I am friends with his younger brother. While James was president of the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) 2020-2021, I was on the AML board, but we did not interact much during our mutual volunteer work--he worked behind the scenes with other institutions to try to promote Mormon letters; I helped with judging for the AML awards and discussions about AML's 100 best books list, which James was not involved with because of obvious conflicts of interest. A curator at the BYU library where I work suggested that we create a page for James in conjunction with acquiring his papers for our special collections. Knowing that I had a connection with James, I assigned my student, who did not know him personally, to create the page. I asked James to upload a selfie to Commons for us to use on this page, which he did. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am only approving the original hook. The contest in ALT1 doesn't seem major and it was an honorable mention on top of that. SL93 (talk) 05:32, 17 May 2022 (UTC)