Dialogue Announces 2009 Contest Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Dialogue writing contests.

Dialogue Best of the Year Awards

Dialogue Best of the Year Awards are for contributions judged as superior in their respective categories:

ARTICLE

Mark  J. Nielsen, “That Which Surpasses All Understanding”:  The Limitations of Human Thought

Fall issue, $300 award

ESSAY

Eugene England Memorial Essay Award

Phyllis Barber, “At the Cannery”

Spring issue, $300

FICTION

Michael Fillerup, In a Better Country

Spring issue, $300

POETRY

Mary Lythgoe Bradford Poetry Award

Clifton Holt Jolley, “What Rocks Know”

Spring issue, $150

New Voices: Awards for New Writers

Subscriptions to Dialogue:

New Voices awards are extended to contributors who are thirty years of age or younger or who are formally enrolled students in a high school, college, or university regardless of age. Submissions accepted for review receive a year’s electronic subscription and a DVD of past issues of Dialogue. Forty-six submissions qualified for this award during 2008.

Publication Awards

In addition, New Voices submissions which are published receive a cash award.

ARTICLES

Matthew B. Bowman, “Toward a Theology of Dissent: An Ecclesiological Interpretation”

Fall issue, $300 award

Mauro Properzi, ‘Belonging (and Believing) as LDS Scholars of Religion”

Fall issue, $300 award

ESSAY

Sam Bhagwat, “A Year of Dialogue:  Thinking Myself Into Mormonism”

Fall issue, $300 award

FICTION

Michael Palmer “Body and Blood”

Winter issue, $300 award

POETRY

Elizabeth A. Pinborough, “A Shaker Sister’s Hymnal”

Summer issue, $100 award

REVIEWS

Brad Kramer, “A Missive on Mountain Meadows”,  review of  Ron Walker, Glen Leonard, and Richard Turley, Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Spring issue, $100 award

Heidi Harris, “Meeting Donna Freitas: A Review of Sex and the Soul and an Interview”

Fall issue, $100 award

David Grua, “Mormonism in Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought:The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Fall issue, $100 award

Ronan J. Head, “In the Nephite Courtroom,” review of John W. Welch’s The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon

Summer issue, $100 award

Richard T. Livingston, “Gazing into the Face of the Other,”  review of Donald W. Musser and David L. Paulsen, eds., Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies

Summer issue, $100 award

Tyler Chadwick, “Reading the Mormon Gothic,”  review of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn

Summer issue, $100 award

FROM THE PULPIT

Kate Holbrook, “The Beings I Love Are Creatures”

Spring issue, $100 award

Taylor Petrey, “Practicing Divinity”

Summer issue, $100 award