Healing Muse, The

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The Healing Muse is an annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics and Humanities, focusing particularly on medicine and healing.

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Submission calls

fictionLiteraryCloses Mar 31, 2027Pays: No payment; contributors receive two complimentary copies, and the journal offers two writing awards with cash prizes.

Fiction, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing; submit one prose piece of no more than 2,500 words. Submissions are collected and juried from September 1 through March 31.

nonfictionLiteraryCloses Mar 31, 2027Pays: No payment; contributors receive two complimentary copies, and the journal offers two writing awards with cash prizes.

Narratives and memoirs, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine and healing; submit one prose piece of no more than 2,500 words. Submissions are collected and juried from September 1 through March 31.

poetryLiteraryCloses Mar 31, 2027Pays: No payment; contributors receive two complimentary copies, and the journal offers two writing awards with cash prizes.

Submit up to five poems, with no more than 10 pages total; themes of medicine and healing are particularly welcomed but not required. Submissions are collected and juried from September 1 through March 31.

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