By Melonie Cannon
What is love? Not the tidy, glittering kind that fits neatly on a Hallmark card, but the messy, persistent kind—the kind that shows up, bruised and imperfect, yet still alive. In this issue, we bring you six striking poems, inviting the reader to pause and join an exploration of love in its myriad forms. I …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
Congratulations on making it through January! For your literary treat, the Prose board presents two pieces. The first is a short story with technology themes fresh and relevant and spiritual themes of eternity. The second is a personal commentary on new grief and the revisiting of faith as a response. Both will have you thinking …
By Melonie Cannon
Yesterday I dropped off a congratulatory “Yeah, you got a job!” treat at a friend’s home and was ushered through the kitchen into the family room. Sitting gangly-legged at the kitchen bar was their 23-year-old son, hair kerfuffled and his eyes intently staring at the small pad of paper in his hand. “What are you …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
Here we exist together in our “fallen world.” Some of us live in places where leaves now fall from sturdy life sources. Most of us endure a contentious presidential election. Many of us suffer through pain, children in crisis, financial strain, or fractured relationships. Falling is built into our nature. Adam and Eve fell with …
By Melonie Cannon
In recent months, I have focused on the topic of creating. Why is it so vitally important to be in the process of creating in order to feel content? Is it considered creating when we pull threads from various ideas and weave them together in a new way, or must we begin from scratch? Is …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
In this issue, Prose serves up a literary version of a well-balanced meal with the kind of variety we crave. First, Olivia Grover’s dystopian short story, “Of Secrets and Truth,” introduces a young shero who discovers a decades-kept secret sure to shape the future for all. In the creative non-fiction category, Cherie Pedersen’s braided essay, …
By Lara Niedermeyer
Editorial After a few years without a Segullah contest, we didn’t know what to expect when we opened the doors to welcome submissions from our worldwide sisterhood. Did anyone still remember us? Would they entrust us with their creative works? The resounding answer was yes! As entries trickled and then gushed, like water from a firehose, we were deliciously overwhelmed with a flood …
By Melonie Cannon
Our readers more than answered the call for this year’s poetry contest with 129 outstanding entries! As the poetry editor, I am profoundly grateful to introduce the winners. Your efforts made this contest issue a memorable one. We want to thank all the poets for your heartfelt submissions. Our poetry board did not know how …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
What a contest! What a comeback. We have missed reading and judging the contest entries and eagerly anticipated quality (and quantity) submissions. Readers, you will see how we were not disappointed. The fiction contest-winning authors certainly embody what former General Young Women’s President, Bonnie L. Oscarson once said, “Sometimes we just need to have a …
By Shari Crall
Editorial Inspiring. You know that giddiness in your stomach and lightness in your head when warmth is beaming right into your noggin? That is what it felt like to read through staff submissions and interviews as we prepared for the return of the Segullah Journal after a two-year hiatus. Inspiration came from both our featured …