Submissions

We are always interested in work that engages with the perspective of medicine, healing, personhood, and community in a broad sense. We are holistic in our understanding of medicine or healing, so please do not feel as if you must submit only narrative medicine work. 

We publish any genre — poetry, prose (fiction, nonfiction), visual art, essay, etc. We do not publish research studies. Anyone may submit, not just medical students. All issues are published in both print and web.

Submissions for Aphasia have now passed, and the issue has published. Please await calls for Issue 11. Any submissions received prior to the call will automatically be considered for that issue and/or future issues, at the editors’ discretion and evaluation of concordance with the theme. If that interests you, please email your piece to Molly Barron at mkbarron@stanford.edu and Brian Zhang at bz248@stanford.edu.

Aphasia is a medical term describing an impairment or inability to speak, write, read, or understand language. It is often the consequence of neurological damage, but there are many etiologies and variations on how aphasias can manifest in patients. For our theme, engage with aphasia - or loss of language - however you wish to explore it. What is language if it's lost? What is communication without words?