Ships of Hagoth is a digital-first literary magazine featuring creative nonfiction and theoretical essays by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Where other LDS-centric publications often look inward at the LDS tradition, we seek literary works that look outward through the curious, charitable lens of faith.
Ships of Hagoth is pleased to announce its first book-length message in a bottle, AND ALL ETERNITY SHOOK, by
Jacob Bender, released April 2022.
Jacob L. Bender is also the author of Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), a work similarly rooted in his Puerto Rican mission service and his mother's passing. In LDS studies, he has previously written for Dialogue, Sunstone, Peculiar Pages, Ships of Hagoth, the Eugene England Foundation, and The Association of Mormon Letters.
Enraged, he wrestles with his God in passionate prayer as he pleads for her life; images and memories of his mission and his Mom jump, cut, and splice together in a cinematic crescendo, flashing furiously before his eyes as though he were the one dying and not her; all as he feels after some miracle, some impossibility, and the peace which surpasses understanding.
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A CALL FOR
We are hoping—for “one must needs hope”—for creative nonfiction, theoretical essays, and craft essays that seek radical new ways to explore and express theological ideas; that are, like Hagoth, “exceedingly curious.”
We favor creative nonfiction that can trace its lineage back to Michel de Montaigne. Whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic.
As for theoretical essays: we welcome work that playfully and charitably explores the wide world of arts & letters—especially works created from differing religious, non-religious, and even irreligious perspectives—through the peculiar lens of a Latter-day Saint.
We read and publish submissions as quickly as possible, and accept simultaneous submissions.
Meditating on the impossibility of both the Resurrection and the 1916 Easter Rising during this Easter season.
“Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also,
So Elder Renlund recently gave the long-rumored talk on Heavenly Mother–and though overall his tone was perhaps softer and humbler than many feared it would
Recalling the late Apostle on this General Conference weekend. The paradox of photography is that the medium conceals as much as it reveals.
In the show-stopping finale to Andrew Lloyd Weber’s 1971 Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar, Judas Iscariot–who had been portrayed throughout as Christ’s closest friend and
What do you do when two General Authorities contradict each other?
The fates of entire nations can pivot on the indefinite article, for “by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.”
The recent release of The Batman has set me off on a Proustian reverie for a time when Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Dark Knight was the latest, biggest Batman revival.
Despite the great and grave importance that the Book of Mormon places upon the Pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas–as well as the Church’s well-established presence throughout the Hispanic world–there has been a curious dearth of LDS writers emerging from Latin America.
For your playlist construction pleasure. Part 1: The Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” and Jimmy Eat World’s “A Sunday” Part 2: Ben Folds’ “Jesusland” and America’s
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