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.
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
The recent release, pleasant reviews, and prompt box-office bomb of The Matrix Resurrections can’t help but 1) make me feel old, but also 2) recall
When you get into those Sunday Morning moods, how do you snap out of it? Or at a bare minimum, how do you wrap up the playlist about it?
On September 11 (no, not that September 11), 1996, the leftist political rock band Rage Against the Machine performed at the Spanish Fork, Utah fairgrounds during their Evil Empire tour.
This is why events unnerve me.
The above image is the cover that probably most every one who’s actually read James E. Talmage’s Jesus the Christ is most familiar with–not the
You can tell we’re getting near the end of this playlist since we’re looping all the way back around to the Velvet Underground, who’s “Sunday
On Ukraine: “Behold, we have not come out to battle against you that we might shed your blood or power; neither do we desire to
Josiah belonged to that special class of special needs students designated as “medically fragile.”
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