By Lara Niedermeyer
Welcome to the delayed November 2025 issue of Segullah. Thank you for your patience. My mother died 8 weeks ago yesterday. The days leading up to her passing were filled with hospice appointments, furniture rearrangements, medication management, visiting family, and celebrating Christmas one last time (six weeks early) for my mom who loved everything about …
By Lisa Meadows Garfield
I’m looking out my office window at trees turning colors – red and gold, the stubborn green hanging on till the last moment. My neighbor trots by after her toddler. Another walks a prancing poodle. The mid-autumn sky is dense with clouds, threatening rain, the reality of the season here in the Pacific Northwest. My …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
A majority of my life in this phase remains quiet. Yet, even in the quiet, I hear crickets rubbing legs against the others like tiny violin bows, the first crackle of fire as I light a candle, and the wind mixing poppy-red with burnt yellow and loud orange leaves. What are you hearing lately? The goal …
By Lara Niedermeyer
Editorial Welcome to the August 2025 issue of Segullah. Within its pages you’ll find reviews of two new books of poetry by our Poetry Board member Lorren Lemmons, first by former Segullah staff member Sharlee Mullins Glenn, and the second by a poet we’ve been pleased to publish more than once in the past, Marilyn …
By Melonie Cannon
This marks my final editorial for Segullah literary magazine. For nearly two decades, I’ve served on these pages—curating essays, editing poems, crafting author interviews and podcast conversations, and offering reflections through blog posts and my own poems. We have created printed magazines and books that I am so proud of. Segullah staff, contributors, and readers …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
My daughter gifted me Maira Kalman’s “Women Holding Things,” a themed treasure of art and poetry that entices readers through the surprising and not-so-surprising ways we hold on to people, objects, hurt, and more. Sometimes whimsical, often wise, Kalman reveals a core duty and privilege of female identity. Each of the three Prose pieces we …
By Lara Niedermeyer
Editorial Welcome to our May 2025 issue of Segullah—our second contest issue since coming back post-pandemic! We have some wonderful winning pieces this year, and I’m so pleased to share their work with you. In each category, our department staff and guest judges worked hard to read, review, and tally the results of the contest …
By Melonie Cannon
Take a breath. Pause. Open your palms, like symbolically opening your heart to new ideas, before you read the poems in this issue. Allow the poems to transform you. You are about to step into something intimate and expansive — the kind of language that doesn’t demand, but listens. This year’s poetry contest entries arrived like …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
I associate reading Segullah’s contest entries with early Spring. New stories and creative nonfiction emerge from a waning season of fewer entries, bright shoots springing up through dry ground. But my appreciation grows into more than for their creation. As I read the entries, I’m struck by the variations of ideas, creativity, and writing styles. …
By Lara Niedermeyer
Editorial Our February 2025 issue marks a year since Segullah started publishing again, and also our 20th anniversary as an organization. This year, we’ll continue to provide you with new writing and art quarterly, the exciting results of our current contest, as well as diving into offering online and in-person workshops, readings, and much more! …