Storytelling, Self, Society Volume 19, Number 1 (Spring 2023, Storytelling and Creative Aging)

Storytelling, Self, Society is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to oral narrative in performance, as social or cultural discourse, and in a variety of professional and disciplinary contexts.

Storytelling, Self, Society Volume 19, Number 1 (Spring 2023)
Special Issue: Storytelling and Creative Aging

Introduction to the Special Issue
Emily Underwood-Lee, Joanne Hudson, and Aelwyn Williams

Understanding Life with Dementia through Life Story Work
Alex Walker 

Stories’ End: A Provocation
Joseph Sobol

From Coffee in Mumbai to Marmite in Scotland: Journeying through the Sensory Stories of People Living with Dementia and Their Carers
Jane Mullins

A Short Ghostly Piece and an Interview with Artist Sheree Murphy
Sheree Murphy interviewed by Aelwyn Williams

A Composite Vignette of Older Adults’ Transitions into Old Age: Purpose, Meaning, and Identity in Later Life
Taylor Waters, Kelly A. Mackintosh, Melitta A. McNarry, and Joanne Hudson

Using Story to Stitch One’s Self into the Mystic
Anne Basting

Conversations about Reading with Older Adults: Self-Knowledge and Empowerment
Ana Vogrinčič Čepič 

Book Review

On Storytelling by Michael Wilson
Hilary Dyer