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 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 …
The editors at Segullah are pleased to announce that we are accepting submissions for our 2025 Art and Writing Contest between February 1, 2025 and March 10, 2025. General submissions are closed during this time. All submissions received during this time will be considered contest submissions. Winners of the contest will be selected from each of …
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 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 …
Segullah Group is pleased to announce our February 2024 Edition of Segullah, an online literary and art journal for Latter-day Saint women. After a two-year hiatus, quarterly editions of our online journal will now debut in the first week of February, May, August, and November. This edition serves as an introduction to our current Segullah …
By Sherilyn Stevenson
Welcome back, Segullah readers! This issue, the prose board offers four essays from our creative nonfiction and fiction staff members. Take a trip with Prose Editor, Sherilyn Stevenson and consider how God’s laws influence creativity in “Order and Art in New York City.” Then, experience with Co-editor-in-chief, Shari Crall, fitful hours which lead to reassurance …
By Shari Crall
Since the 1990s, after therapy and feeling the ransoming love of the Savior, I have had a large print of Minerva Teichert’s “Christ in a Red Robe” hung in my home where I could see it daily. I added a brass plate that read, “I have graven thee on the palm of my hands.” Last …
By Jessie Christensen
Editorial When I first read a draft of Elizabeth Cranford Garcia’s essay “An Apology for Speculation”, my mind turned to words I associated with “speculation”: spectacular, perspective, speculum, spectacles. Over the past few centuries the term has taken on negative connotations that associate it with straying into unwanted territory—‘speculating’ on ideas much like a ‘speculator’ …