Alison Brimley

ALISON BRIMLEY {[email protected]} is the winner of the 2018 Sunstone Fiction Contest, the 2018 Association of Mormon Letters Short Fiction Award, and the 2017 Mountain West Writers Contest. Her work is forthcoming in Western Humanities Review and elsewhere.

Boys Want Her, Girls Want to Be Her. But What Does She Want? | Theric Jepson, Just Julie’s Fine

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 3

Julie Them, the focal character of Theric Jepson’s new novel Just Julie’s Fine, is a Mary Sue character: “so perfect every reader hates her” while “in the fictional world all people, heroes and villains alike,…

Review: It’s Lonely at the Top Ryan Shoemaker. Beyond the Lights.

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

The Pew

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 3

Helen realizes at church Sunday morning that still, after all these years, she does not have fond feelings for the chapel. She doesn’t want to hold on to any grudges against it—she doesn’t take it…