We’re pleased to announce the re-boot of Irreantum — the literary journal of the Association for Mormon Letters — is complete. Issue 16.1 is now online and free to read.
Edited by William Morris (short story, essay) and Sarah Dunster (poetry) with production help from Michael Andrew Ellis, the new issue features two stories (by James Goldberg and Karen Rosenbaum), two personal essays (by Liz Busby and Jennifer Swenson), seven poems (by Dayna Patterson, Jim Richards, Terresa Wellborn, Heather Harris Bergevin, Jeremy Hunt, Tyler Chadwick, and Bob Rees) and cover art and an artist’s statement by Megan Geilman.
With submissions from long-time contributors to the Mormon Lit to new/back-in-the game voices, this new issue represents the core of what the AML and Mormon literature is all about. We’re very pleased with how these contributors artfully illuminate various aspects of Mormon doctrine, history, and experience.
Not all future issues will follow this same format. There will be room for different genres, voices, and directions. So if what you read isn’t what you’re interested in reading and writing — stick with us. And consider submitting. Submissions for issue 16.2 (Spring/Summer) have a deadline of midnight PDT, March 15, 2019.
Irreantum was originally published from 1999 to 2013. You can see the archives of the first run of Irreantum here.
Enjoy!
One final note: the word Mormon is used throughout this announcement and elsewhere on this site. We understand and respect the recent counsel from President Nelson on using the full name of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We will generally do so (and have done so in this issue) when referring to the Church as the Church itself. However, since Mormonism itself stretches beyond (and intersects with) the institutional church especially when it comes to culture, and neither Irreantum nor the AML is sponsored or endorsed by the Church, we will continue to use the words Mormon and Mormonism to refer to works and authors that fit within the scope of the AML, which is literature that is by, for, and/or about Mormons.