BOSTON, Mass. — Jennifer De Leon’s short story “Home Movie,” first published in The Briar Cliff Review, was chosen as this year’s One City, One Story selection by the Boston Book Festival. The festival, which runs Oct. 23-24, will release 30,000 print copies of the story in English and Spanish at Boston Public Library branches and select bookstores, organizations and businesses in Boston. “Home Movie” originally appeared in the 2012 edition of The Briar Cliff Review — an inte

By Tricia Currans-Sheehan Editor, The Briar Cliff Review The Briar Cliff Review is proud to announce the winners of its 2015 writing contest. The winning entries will be published in the 2015 edition of The Briar Cliff Review, which will be available May 1, 2015. Best Fiction "Until the World Brought to Me Again Its Gold Its Vermillion" Lee Varon, Cambridge, Mass. Lee Varon is a therapist and a writer. She is licensed as a clinical social worker and maintains a private practi

By Suzanne Axland, University of South Carolina Press In May the University of South Carolina Press published Phoning Home: Essays by Jacob M. Appel, but our stock sold out before we had the chance to send out review copies. Now that the second printing is in the warehouse, we would like to tell you about this great book! Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays featuring the author's quirky family, his Jewish heritage and his New York City up

By Laurence Levy, TheReviewReview.net There is lots of good work in Volume 26 of The Briar Cliff Review, published by Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. Slick but not too thick at only 124 pages, tall and wide, the magazine’s almost three dozen poems, four short stories, four nonfiction pieces, and miscellany are peppered and spiced throughout with terrific full-color art and photography. It’s an entertaining package. Most of the work aspires to and much of it attain

BROOKINGS, S.D. — To catalyze, ignite and magnify—all these images capture what the honors college means to students and faculty at South Dakota State University. But only through research can associate professor Christine Stewart understand these metaphors well enough to incorporate them into a poem she is writing for the dedication of the new building. “I have all these images and metaphors from different disciplines,” Stewart says. “Even if the image ends up being just one