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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk16:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that James Goldberg co-founded an annual writing competition for very short Mormon fiction called the Mormon Lit Blitz? Source: Introductory material: "The Mormon Lit Blitz contest has tapped into a rich reservoir of Mormon short-short fiction, reaching a milestone this year with the publication of its first anthology. With a 1000-word limit, final winners selected by a popular vote, and special rounds for translated and translingual work, the contest has yielded a panorama of diverse results during its first decade. Co-founder James Goldberg answers Dialogue’s fiction editor Jennifer Quist’s questions about this ongoing project to advance the reading and writing of Mormon literature."Q&A with James Goldberg, Co-founder of Mormon Lit Blitz

Created by Salem(BYU) (talk) and Nihonjoe (talk). Nominated by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) at 18:19, 25 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.
Overall: I am only approving the original hook. The contest in ALT1 doesn't seem major and it was an honorable mention on top of that. SL93 (talk) 05:32, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

additional information on connection

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James Goldberg and I attended the same creative fiction workshop in 2010 or 2011 when we were both in graduate school in English at BYU. We weren't close, but I am friends with his younger brother. While James was president of the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) 2020-2021, I was on the AML board, but we did not interact much during our mutual volunteer work--he worked behind the scenes with other institutions to try to promote Mormon letters; I helped with judging for the AML awards and discussions about AML's 100 best books list, which James was not involved with because of obvious conflicts of interest. A curator at the BYU library where I work suggested that we create a page for James in conjunction with acquiring his papers for our special collections. Knowing that I had a connection with James, I assigned my student, who did not know him personally, to create the page. I asked James to upload a selfie to Commons for us to use on this page, which he did. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]