Association for Mormon Letters
Literary Awards
1982
Short Fiction
The judges stated that this short story is "a masterfully written story which explores with delicate tact the ambivalence of apostasy and the subtle appeal of faith to the nonbeliever."
Poetry
"Gilead" is described as "a psalm of praise which, by invoking and extending both scriptural and literary tradition, celebrates the providential unity of the world and time under the figure of the living tree."
Poetry and Fiction
In making this award, the prize committee called Sillitoe's work "a finely crafted sonnet and a mature short story which portray the tenderness and terror of Mormon women's experience with acute insight and feeling, and which together demonstrate remarkable literary versatility."
Criticism
The awards committee felt that this essay "continues the ongoing project of literary interpretation of Latter-day Saint scripture by unfolding further dimensions of typology in the Book of Mormon and thus showing its close structure and thematic connections with the Bible."
Semifinalists
for
Fiction
for
Fiction
Christmas, Robert A. "Another Angel." Dialogue 14.2 (1981): 17.
Horne, Lewis B. "The Stroke." San Jose Studies May 1981: 51-57.
___. "Roadshow." The Chariton Review 7 (Spring 1981): 55-64.
___. "Widow's Sanctuary." Descant 12 (1981): 125-30.
Hughes, Dean. Hooper Haller. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981.
Kump, Eileen Gibbons. "The Ladder." Sunstone 6 Jan-Feb. 1981: 50-52.
Marler, Myrna. "Last Favor for a Stranger." Kula Manu (1981): 12-17.
Marshall, Donald. "Lavender Blue." Sunstone 6 March-Apr 1981: 45-49.
Mortensen, Pauline. "Barn Building." Inscape 1 (Fall 1981): 160-68.
Peterson, Levi. "Trinity." Ascent 7 (Fall 1981): 1-8.
___. "The Shriveprice." Sunstone 6 Sept-Oct 1981: 50-58.
Shook, Annette. "Here With You Now." Kula Manu (1981): 70-73.
Sillitoe, Linda. "Demons." Sunstone 6 May-June 1981: 40-43.
___. "The Last Day of Spring." Dialogue 14.4 (1981): 152-59.
Semifinalists
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Poetry
for
Poetry
___. "To Mother." Exponent II 7 (Winter 1981): 8.
Bjork, Dale. "Two Poems on Entanglement." Sunstone 6 Nov-Dec 1981: 58.
Brimley, Dawn Baker. "Sanctuary." Sunstone 6 Nov-Dec 1981: 58.
Cannon, Ann Edwards. "Columbine." Sunstone 6 Jan-Feb 1981: 32.
___. "Merlin (A Poem for My Father)." Exponent II 7 (Winter 1981): 8.
Davis, Mitch. "Reception." Inscape 1 (Fall 1981): 75.
England, Eugene. "Kinsman." BYU Studies 21.4 (1981): 488-89.
___. "Black Walnut." Literature and Belief 1 (1981): 90.
Goldsberry, Steven. "Wind Shakes the Water White." Kula Manu (1981): 6.
Gunter, Patricia Ellen. "Judah." Inscape 1 (Fall 1981): 23-24.
Hall, Randall. "Passover: a Mirrored Epiphany." Dialogue 14.3 (1981): 113.
Jorgensen, Bruce W. "Beginning to Bodysurf." Kula Manu (1981): 85-86.
Larson, Clinton F. "War Veteran at a Clinic." BYU Studies 21.3 (1981): 378.
Rees, Robert A. "Gilead." Sunstone 6 Jan.-Feb. 1981: 17.
Shook, Annette. "Her Children." Kula Manu (1981): 36.
Sillitoe, Linda. "Lullaby in the New Year." Exponent II 8 (Fall 1981): 17.
Thayne Emma Lou. "Renunciation." Exponent II 7 (Summer 1981): 17.
Semifinalists
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Criticism
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Criticism
Rogers, Thomas. "The Sacred in Literature." Literature and Belief 1 (1981): 57-59.
Sondrup, Steven P. "On Confessing Belief: Thoughts on the Language of the Articles of Faith." Literature of Belief: Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience. Ed. Neal Lambert. Provo: BYU, Religious Studies Center, 1981. 197-215.
Tate, George S. "The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon." Literature of Belief: Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience. Ed. Neal Lambert. Provo: BYU, Religious Studies Center, 1981. 24-62.
Wilson, William A. "On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries." 64th Faculty Honor Lecture, Utah State University. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1981. Reprinted, with many errors, in Sustone Jan.-Feb. 1981: 32-40.
Young, Bruce W. "Literary Criticism and Religious Values." Literature and Belief 1 (1981): 95-112.