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! …
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 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 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 Lara Niedermeyer
Editorial Why are creative endeavors important in our lives (both mortal and immortal)? Why do we do what we do as writers, artists, and purveyors of these things? There are a lot of different answers to these questions, but I find for myself it is ultimately about connection and growth. Author Chaim Potok wrote, “Art …
By Linda Hoffman Kimball
We received a number of impressive entries for the Segullah 2024 Art Contest. Diantha Hopkins’ piece “Priesthood” received the 1st place award for its unique mixed media excellence, using the most mundane supplies – paper, glue, newsprint, metal keys, hardware bits – and giving it a title that transcends definition. In an era when so …
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 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 Melonie Cannon
If you’ve ever attended a guided meditation class, one of the first journeys the teacher might take you on is to imagine yourself as a tree with roots growing from the bottoms of your feet or your root chakra. These roots spread out and grow and entangle themselves with the center of the earth so …
By Shari Crall
Ripple and Blow I am feeling Too much these days Clients yell at me Too much! I yell at others Too much! Too many stones Causing too many Ripples Blowing Too many grasses Sending Too many people To graves To grief To gravel. I went back to work. After two years off, managing our local …