Out Loud

Dialogue fiction pieces and personal essays performed and edited professionally.

Episodes

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Finding Rebecca a Eulogy by Marie Blanchard

Marie Blanchard tells the story of her great-grandmother in this beautiful personal essay.

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Assuming Power by Linda Hoffman Kimball

Linda Hoffman Kimball pens this lovely personal essay about her recognizing, owning, and asserting her God-given powers.

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Called Not to Serve by Neal David Silvester

Neal David Silvester pens this beautiful personal essay about the intersections of mental health and missionary work (or not!)

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Confession by Sylvette Wolfe

In Sylvette Wolfe’s “Confession” a 60-year-old woman confesses to enjoying her sin to her bishop. She feels guilt, shame, and…delight?

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Who Brought Forth This Christmas Demon by Larry Menlove

In “Who Brought Forth this Christmas Demon” Larry T. Menlove brings us a beautifully complicated story of two men trying to find their way in life with the backdrop of a Christmas tree lot in…

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Mormon Saga by Maurine Whipple

Maurine Whipple’s “Mormon Saga” is a story of unrelenting faith that will haunt you in the days to come. She likely wrote it after listening to fellow Relief Society women tell stories of their foremothers,…

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Ace of Saints

In Marissa Burgess “Ace of Saints” she takes readers on her journey of figuring out her asexulity, beautifully narrated in this latest Out Loud.

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Certain Places

In “Certain Places,” William Morris tells the story of a person looking for meaning, connection, and ultimately love in this unique but gorgeous love story that spans more than one lifetime. The sound of shoes…

Dialogue Out Loud Presents In the Garden of Babel

Luna Corbden’s beautiful fantastical “In the Garden of Babel” gorgeously comes alive as Eldria and God speak about what it means to be human and to be a god. What does this human woman learn…

Dialogue Out Loud Presents Hug a Queer Latter-day Saint

For this second Dialogue Out Loud podcast, Blaire Ostler gives us a peek into her experience of standing at General Conference with a sign that says “Hug a Latter-day Saint.”