Story Circle Book Reviews

Author of Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying Winner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Memoir Award Susan J. Tweit has been published in a diversity of magazines and newspapers, including Audubon, Popular Mechanics, High Country News, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work has […]

Author of Act Like You’re Having a Good Time 2021 Winner of SCN’s Gilda Award Michele Weldon writes frequently for many publications, including the Washington Post and USA Today. Her books include I Closed My Eyes: Revelations of a Battered Woman; Writing to Save Your Life: How to […]

Mary MacCracken writes with honest poignancy in beautiful prose in The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s as she shares her observations and tribulations of her beloved husband’s journey into dementia. The book’s dedication sets the tone: “For Cal MacCracken, May all know love like […]

Opening Debra S. Boyd’s latest book, Wax Prints of the Sahel, felt like opening a treasure chest filled with rich, vibrantly colored fabrics, each with a story I couldn’t wait to discover. Inside the cover, page after page of African cultural history revealed itself as wax printed fabrics […]

In The Illusiveness of Gray, poet Carol Smallwood shares recollections, revelations, and moments of inspiration sparked by a laser focus on surroundings. She proves herself versatile as a poet by including poetic forms such as triplets, cinquains, and tercets combined with occasional rhyme and a rhythmic litany of […]