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Mormon Studies Resource Guide

Private Collections and Repositories of Mormon Literature

Many books by Mormons (particularly journals and diaries) are located in permanent, special, and rare book collections:

• LDS Church archives (access with special permission)
• LDS Family History Library (public access)
• Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library L. Tom Perry Special Collections (restricted access)
• Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California (restricted access)
• William R. Clark Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, California (restricted access)

Conferences, Meetings, and Symposia in which Mormon Literature is regularly discussed:

• The Association for Mormon Letters Annual Meeting (late winter of each year, various Wasatch Front locales)
• The Association for Mormon Letters Writers Conference (late fall of each year, various Wasatch Front locales)
• Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference (fall of each year, various Rocky Mountain locales)
• Colloquium on Literature and Belief (occasionally, at Brigham Young University)
• Sunstone Symposium (August of each year, Salt Lake City, Utah)
• Sunstone Symposium West (held in alternate years annually with Sunstone Symposium East--various locales)
• Sunstone Symposium East (held in alternate years annually with Sunstone Symposium West--various locales)
• Life, the Universe, and Everything--The BYU Science Fiction Symposium (held late winter, early spring each year, Wilkinson Center, BYU)
• The Nauvoo Workshop for LDS Writers (online forum)

Courses Offered in Mormon Literature

Brigham Young University: English 368, "Literature of the Latter-day Saints"

"Literary study of journals, letters, sermons, short stories, novels, poetry, and drama arising out of the Mormon experience from Joseph Smith to the present. "

This course is frequently taught by Gideon Burton, Eric Eliason, John Bennion, and Douglas Thayer.

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