The literary blog Ships of Hagoth reports “We are preparing to relaunch as a digital-first literary magazine favoring works deemed too peculiar for Latter-day Saint publications, yet too full of LDS peculiarities for anyone else. also hope to stimulate more divergent literary explorations of faith by playfully reinterpreting anything we like through an unapologetically LDS lens.” Jake Clayson and Jacob Bender, the shipmasters, have asked us to publish this announcement. Here is our message in a bottle: if, as Paul Signac claimed, “The anarchist artist is not the one who creates anarchist paintings”, then what could LDS art look like?
We are hoping (for “one must needs hope”) for manuscripts too experimental for the LDS journals, yet too LDS for the experimental journals; that take seriously the idea, if the “unspeakable gift” of the Holy Ghost speaks in “groanings beyond utterance”, then we must find radical new ways to express it; that are, like Hagoth, “exceedingly curious”, and so build new ships in search of unknown lands.
Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, reviews, prose, poetry, hybrids of any or all or none of the above—we seek innovative LDS pieces that don’t just say new things, but find new ways to say them, because we refuse to believe that we are the only ones out there.
Visit us at: https://shipsofhagoth.com
Submit your work at: hagoth@shipsofhagoth.com
Recent posts:
LOW AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF SILENCE, by Jacob Bender (Criticism)
UPON KILLING A BEE, by Jake Clayson (Nonfiction essay)
INFINITE VARIATIONS ON A SACRED THEME, by Jacob Bender (Fiction, featuring several alternative universe Mormons)
THE ESSAYIST BACKSTAGE, by Jake Clayson (Craft essays)