By Lorraine Jeffery
To what I know— the sky, wind, water, trees.To what I don’t know— the stronger, wiser force. Do you practice kintsugi? Knowing that we are all broken and c a c k e d r do you mend our shattered parts with gold? Because of what I know and don’t know,I believe you can …
By Tabitha Moody
I used to live in the plains. My house had a second story, with a window in my room that could open to the roof of the first story. I liked to climb out the window and sit on the roof every once in a while to stargaze or stare at the endless blue sky. …
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 …
By Shari Crall
Standing in the warm waters off Ulua Beach, I lifted my feet and began to float. The week before I had been losing it. Like in a way that made me question what I was made of. I had a bout of nerves so intense I threw up several times. The next day, I stared …
By Jessie Christensen
Mormon women were in the news again in 2024 after a new reality show and several famous online influencers stirred up questions about what it means to be a woman who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Are all Mormon women white, upper class and residents of Utah? What …
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
Paige Crosland Anderson’s magnificent triptych artwork “Again, Glorified” was recently purchased by Brigham Young University Museum of Art and is on loan at the Church’s Museum of Art in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is a glorious work to see and an even richer experience to perceive with an understanding of Paige’s aesthetic worldview. She …
By Ellie McGregor
When rib became womandid he wake immediately to see his love?Or while Adam sleptdid Eve have a night alone? Did she run barefoot under the newly formed mooncratered and burning brightly Did she feel the silk of a silver lake on her bare skin,a foreign but familiar womb Did she sink her teeth into a …
By Rebecca Suzuki
The first time I realized my bodywas built wrong for Morming(abmormal?)was when the t-shirts arrivedfor Girl’s Camp. How beautiful upon the mountainswas the cotton-polyon the wise virgins who had savedall their body fat for their breasts,the only curve that we were supposed to hintthrough the veil of Hanes.They rolled up their already-short sleeves, their armsso …
By Marilyn Bushman-Carlton
Love and romance (and tradition) meant giving it upfor the privilege of belonging to someone. What girl dressed for her wedding smells death in the white orchid,sees imperfections in the bright diamond? How easily I let it go, boxed it with a school play script,pep club outfit, rogue dreams of college, and baltered willingly into …
By Jessie Christensen
Set in 1890, Martine Leavitt’s novel Buffalo Flats tells the story of Rebecca Leavitt, a seventeen-year-old young woman who has come from Utah with her family to settle in Canada’s Northwest Territory (what would later become Alberta). Rebecca is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and her faith permeates the …