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2025 Segullah Contest Winners

By Lara Niedermeyer

Segullah Literary Journal is pleased to announce the winners of our 2025 Writing and Art Contest. The prizes for this year’s contest were donated by a small group of Segullah supporters who value literature and art created by women of our faith.

These winners met our continuing mission of provoking thought and greater understanding and faith among Latter-day Saint women, and showed particular artistry and mastery of their craft. The prize-winning art and literature supports our goal of highlighting a variety of women’s perspectives within a framework of shared beliefs and values. We look forward to sharing these entries in the next issue of Segullah, to be published in May 2025.

Art

  • 1st Place: Lavinia Hale, “Morning Mist at Big Creek”
  • 2nd Place: Marjorie Hansen, “Cat Stairs Canyon”
  • 3rd Place: Ruth Hewlett Pope, “Sacred Places: Provo Temple”
  • Honorable Mention: Lavinia Hale, “Break of Day Over the Ohio”
  • Honorable Mention: Ruth Hewlett Pope, “Journey Into the Light”
  • Honorable Mention: Kaylin Hill, “Whitney Rains”
  • Honorable Mention: Lynn Matthews Anderson, “Techno-vertebra”

Creative Non-Fiction

  • 1st Place: Allyson Smith, “Even There, Love Abides”
  • 2nd Place: Tabitha Moody, “The Quiet of The Plains”
  • (no other awards)

Fiction 

  • 1st Place: Elizabeth Smith, “At the Library”
  • (no other awards)

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Felice Alexandra, “Handshaking Instructions”
  • 2nd Place: Sarah Colby, “Lamentation: Wife of Uriah”
  • 3rd Place: Tricia Cope, “The Old Songs”
  • (no other awards)

About Lara Niedermeyer

Lara Niedermeyer writes to savor and connect. Growing up in Port Townsend, Washington, she was surrounded by art in all its forms and the wild coast of the Pacific. This foundational experience and landscape continue to shape her creative choices. Raised on the poems of Carol Lynn Pearson (whose books she snuck off her mother’s shelf and hid in her suitcase when leaving home), she revels in poetry which is both mystical and plain-spoken. Joining Segullah in 2009, she previously served as Poetry Editor and on the Poetry Board. Her poems have been published in the anthology “Seasons of Change,” Segullah, and read aloud for the “Words Fall In” podcast. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family, where she rents vintage dishes for events, and regularly teaches writing workshops.


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