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 Olivia Winward
Not wringing words from a rag,rather stepping out into the rain,into the rain that will come. Running in rain bootsdown a dust-coated roadwhere pools of thought have gone dry,gone to form a cloud in the sky. Not even the weatherman knowswhen the words will return,but I am readywhen it rains. I am drenchedby thedropsof un-finishedthoughts,fallingdownagain. …
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 Lorren Lemmons
In Sharlee Mullins Glenn’s epic poem about the premortal Council in Heaven and the Fall, Brighter and Brighter Until the Perfect Day, light is currency. The waxing and waning of each spirit’s light is the barometer for good and evil. “‘When we choose amiss, our light recedes,’ / said one whose earnest countenance shone fair” …
By Lorren Lemmons
We Wore Dresses opens with the title poem. The dresses in the lines of poetry are both beautiful and restrictive: “In dresses we were careful, won few scars or bruises / collected even fewer tales of swift licks, shattered bones” and “We were flowers: angel trumpets, fuchsia, inverted tulips . . . How exquisite we …
We are pleased to announce our May 2025 Edition of Segullah, an online literary and art journal for Latter-day Saint women. This edition showcases the best entries from our 2025 contest and highlights the winners in visual art, poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
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 …