Some places never leave us.
HIRAETH is a quarterly zine collection of writing, reflection, and remembrance exploring the complicated beauty of land, the grief of losing it, and the enduring relationships between people and place.
Through personal essays, poetry, and stories from ranching life, Jessica Teona Schley explores what it means to love a place deeply, to reckon with its loss, and to continue caring for the land and the stories holds.
INSIDE THE PAGES
Stories from the land.
Stories for the keeping
Ranch Life & Living Memory
The everyday details of a life lived close to the land.
Land Grief & Belonging
The places we've lost, the ones we long for, and what it means to carry them with us.
Stewardship & Conservation
Our responsibility to the landscapes that sustain us.
Poetry & Personal Essays
Intimate writing that makes room for tenderness, humor, sorrow, and the beauty of being human.
The Stories We Inherit
The knowledge, traditions, and complexities passed down through generations.
THE OUTSIDE CIRCLE
A little something to hold onto.
Receive four thoughtfully crafted editions each year - a collection of stories, poetry, and reflections to sit with over coffee, carry along on a journey, or revisit whenever you find yourself missing a place you once called home.
More than a subscription
Keeping the stories alive is part of keeping the land alive. When you join the Outside Circle, you're doing more than receiving four editions of a publication. You're helping make space for independent writing about rural life, land stewardship, cultural memory, and the complicated realities of belonging. Your subscription helps keep that conversation going and makes room for stories that might otherwise go untold.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
FALL 2025
A season of change, reflection, and the landscapes that live within us.
WINTER 2026
An invitation to sit with memory, tradition, and the quiet weight of what we carry forward.
Meet Jessica
WRITER. RIDER. STORYTELLER.
Jessica's work grows from a deep relationship with the land and the lives shaped by it. Through essays, poetry, & storytelling, she explores ranching culture, family history, belonging, land grief, & the changing landscapes of the American West.
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For the stories that remind us where we've been, the questions that help us understand where we are, and the care we owe the places that will outlive us.