Celebrating the Best of 2024
Wayfare Awards from the Association of Mormon Letters
On Friday, May 30th, the Association for Mormon Letters announced the best of 2024 in Mormon literature. Several Wayfare publications were nominated, and we have gathered them here. These pieces represent the true, the good, and the beautiful, and their authors truly deserve the honor and recognition of AML's Best of 2024.
Winner: Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Winner: Best Short Fiction
The Boy Comes Home
She stands at the kitchen sink on a Saturday morning, rinsing a bowl, waiting for a visit from her son, who hasn’t been home since leaving for college. Looking out the window, her eyes fall on a landscaped cluster in the corner of the backyard—two aspen trees skirted by red twig dogwood and bordered in gray river rocks, the whole scene dusted in a late …
Winner: Best Novel
Tales of the Chelm First Ward: Introduction
There’s an old Eastern European Jewish folktale that goes like this:
Nominated: Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
Nominated: Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
The Faith of a Stiff-Necked Woman
Give me a pile of ten men’s diaries, or one woman’s diary, and I’ll choose the woman’s account every time. —Leonard J. Arrington
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