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Great ready for a new holiday tradition

December’s arrival brings the welcome return of the advent calendar, the magical, daily surprise countdown to Christmas. This year, the Center is adding to the holiday spirit with a daily short work of literature written by some of our finest voices from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.

Imagine this: Each morning in December, you open the Center’s website to find something beautiful, heartbreaking, funny, inventive, or profound.

By Christmas, you will have read a banquet of our best writers’ works. They include: classic short stories by Nephi Anderson, Susa Young Gates, Josephine Spencer, and Maurine Whipple; breakthrough short fiction by John Held, Jr., Susan Howe, and Donald Marshall; exciting works by James Goldberg, Theric Jepson, Allison Hong Merrill, William Morris, Gabriel González Nùñez, Steven L. Peck, and Isaac Richards; and ten previously unpublished works (including some written just for us) by Barrett Burgin, Liz Busby, Richard Lyman Bushman, Jeremy Grimshaw, George Handley, Luisa Perkins, Perry Raleigh, Todd Robert Petersen & Zoë Petersen, Daniel Yen Tu, and Darlene Young.

The Advent Calendar collection showcases genres that LDS authors and readers love: speculative fiction, heartbreaking personal essays, stories that spring from our culture, and others that are universally profound but written from a uniquely LDS viewpoint.

This December, join the Center in a new holiday experience.

How to use the Advent Calendar

Most stories will release on December 1st, but we are holding a few back for some special dates. Join the Advent Calendar waitlist to be alerted when new stories release–and to get reminders along the way.