CFS: Health Care to the Poor

Call for Proposals–Narrative Symposium: Delivering Health Care in Severely Resource-Constrained Settings Edited by Paul Farmer, MD, PhD and Sadath Sayeed, JD, MD Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics will publish an issue devoted to personal stories about the experiences of delivering health care to the poor in severely resource-constrained settings. We believe the soul of global health [...]

CFS: Pulse (Poetry, Narratives, Essays)

Launched nearly three years ago, Pulse is a weekly online publication that each Friday afternoon delivers a first-person, healthcare-related story or poem to its subscribers. These pieces are written by (and intended for) patients, health professionals, students and caregivers–and lovingly edited by the Pulse staff. Pulse‘s concise, authentic and engaging offerings have drawn a growing [...]

CFS: J General Internal Medicine

The Journal of General Internal Medicine seeks two types of high quality work for its Healing Arts section: ·        Text and Context consists of excerpts from literature (novels, short stories, poetry, plays or creative non-fiction) of 200-800 words followed by an accompanying essay of up to 1000 words discussing the significance of the work for [...]

Nurse in the House?

Writing in today’s New York Times op-ed pages, Theresa Brown calls for federal action to increase hiring of nurses: Doctors can indeed be heroes. But when a patient takes a sudden turn for the worse, it’s the nurses who are usually the first to respond. Each patient has a specific nurse assigned to watch over [...]

CFS: Am J of Nursing

The American Journal of Nursing is seeking high quality writing on a variety of topics. • Clinical best practices – We especially seek cutting-edge, evidence-based clinical manuscripts on a wide range of topics across settings. Such manuscripts should have a focus that can be handled in depth in about 5,000 words (excluding references and figures) [...]

CFS: Bellevue Literary Review (creative writing)

The Bellevue Literary Review seeks high-caliber, unpublished work, broadly and creatively related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. Prose should be limited to 5000 words. Poetry submissions should have no more than 3 poems. Please include all poems in one document. BLR reads submissions year-round, but makes most editorial [...]

CFS: The Teacher’s Voice

The Teacher’s Voice has radically changed! It is now a free online magazine and teacher resource. They seek poems, short stories, creative nonfiction, and essays about the promise and hard truths of teaching in our schools and colleges. Chapbook and poetry contests too. The Teacher’s Voice, P.O. Box 150384, Kew Gardens, NY 11415. Query: editor@the-teachers-voice.org [...]

CFS: Ars Medica (creative writing, incl. non-fiction)

ARS MEDICA: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts and Humanities is a relatively new literary magazine looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and artwork dealing with illness, the body, healing, and the culture of medicine. ARS MEDICA allows a place for dialogue, meaning making, and the representation of experiences of the body, health, wellness, and [...]

Call for Submissions: AJN, THE AMERICAN Journal of Nursing

AJN, THE AMERICAN Journal of Nursing (circ. 300,000), seeks poems and short personal essays on experiences related to health and health care for its Art of Nursing and Reflections departments. Authors need not be health professionals. Original perspectives and clear, unsentimental writing are preferred. $150 honorarium paid upon publication. Guidelines available at www.editorialmanager.com/ajn.