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May 5, 2025
Announcing Segullah May 2025 Edition
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.
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May 2025 Edition
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 ...
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Art Contest Winners 2025
First Place The first-place art winner of the 2025 Segullah Contest is Lavinia Hale of Greencastle, Indiana. Her painting entitled “Morning Mist at Big Creek” impressed our judges with its composition, dimensionality, and gentle imagery—and especially the rendering of the reflection of the sky on the water. It was a place we could envision visiting ...
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Poetry Editorial May 2025
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 ...
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Handshaking Instructions (1st Place Poetry)
Do you remember the secret handshake to tell a demonfrom an angel? The reason I ask is because the blue-bellied lizard is doing pushups on the rock again. And becausethe sun is setting, and mountain ridges stand behind one another like ancestors, fading into the purple distance.I sense the urgings crawling around inside you are ...
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Lamentation: Wife of Uriah (2nd Place Poetry)
That bath was my undoing,a ritual ended in ruin—the billow of the king’s cloaka rooftop shadow I never saw,his summons unexpected. To refuse the king is death—most days I wish I had.Instead, over and over I turnmy head away from the sharavof his unfamiliar breath. When he sent for youI waited with dates and honeycraving ...
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The Old Songs (3rd Place Poetry)
You were born in the night,all flesh and fists andfuzz. Warm breathon my neck. Whisperedlullabies. I named you and taught you to namethings. Bird. Book. Bread. God.Only now that you are grownI tell you the truth. That lifeboils over the rim of this world. I scarcely rememberthe old songs. The shapeof your body curledinto mine. ...
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Prose Editorial November 2025
I associate reading Segullah’s contest entries with early Spring. New stories and creative nonfiction emerge from a waning season of fewer entries, bright shoots springing up through dry ground. But my appreciation grows into more than for their creation. As I read the entries, I’m struck by the variations of ideas, creativity, and writing styles. ...
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At the Library (1st Place Fiction)
Another picture book slid from its place, this time in the corner by the window. Judy paused from planning tomorrow’s craft for storytime. She rose and poked her head down the aisles. Sure enough, Go, Dog, Go! by P. D. Eastman lay on the blue carpet. She furrowed her brow, returning it to the shelf. ...
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Even Here, Love Abides (1st Place Creative Nonfiction)
Walking back into the cancer center for the first infusion feels both familiar and surreal. I cannot believe this is happening again; this was always going to happen again. I am picking up right where I left off. My 18-month hiatus should have been permanent. Instead, this cancer has not only returned, but has spread ...
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