A Motley Vision is an online
multi-author blog
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featuring
criticism
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of the Mormon arts, LDS
literature
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and
film
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in particular. It was launched by William Morris on June 2, 2004. It won the
Association for Mormon Letters
The Association for Mormon Letters (AML) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 to "foster scholarly and creative work in Mormon letters and to promote fellowship among scholars and writers of Mormon literature." Other stated purposes have inc ...
award for criticism in 2005 for "Its writers have made serious efforts to give sustained discussion to important issues, rather than simply aggregating fragments and chatter. The organization and coherence of the site, with its archives and references, has made possible the very sort of communal discussion of art and literature that AML encourages at its conferences, but does so asynchronously and electronically, allowing a greater breadth of participation across space and time."
AMV frequently runs interviews with or essays from significant figures in the Mormon arts, such as
Coke Newell and Mormons who have had significant national success such as
Stephenie Meyer
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. The site's criticism is occasionally cited in promotional materials and in scholarly notices.
AMV's critical efforts also include AMV Projects, among which are an online literary journal "devoted to the work of
Twilight
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author
Stephenie Meyer
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," a "free-content multilingual dictionary of Mormon words and phrases" and a translation project.
See also
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Bloggernacle
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