The Intima is open for submissions for Spring 2013!

The Intima is an electronic journal founded in 2011 to stimulate thought, reflection, and conversation about the intersecting worlds of medicine, humanities and art. We welcome submissions from patients, family, and clinicians, about their experiences in health care. Please visit http://www.theintima.org to read selections from our previous issues.

Submission Guidelines: The deadline for submissions for the upcoming issue is January 31, 2013; our target publication date is March 1, 2013. Final notification of acceptance or regret will be given by February 17th, 2013.  We only accept electronic submissions through our website. Full submission guidelines can be found on http://www.theintima.org/guidelines.html and feel free to contact [email protected] with any questions. See below for a brief overview of what we are looking for.

Submissions can include:

• Scholarly essays or articles geared towards educating a general audience about Narrative Medicine
• Non-Fiction, personal narratives or perspective pieces
• Fiction, Short Fiction
• Field Notes, reflections on working in the field
• Poetry
• Studio Art, in any medium such as paintings, photographs, or prints
• Audio or Visual Multimedia

Subject areas might include but are not limited to:

• personal narratives of illness from the patient and/or clinician perspectives
• grand narratives of public health, epidemics, and the globalization of disease
• analyses of historical or contemporary representations of illness and the body in literature, art, popular culture, and the media
• discourse on the role of narrative in the greater health care reform debate

Submission Requirements

• 12 point times new roman font, double-spaced
• submit as a Word document (.doc, .docx); media/art should be in .jpg, .png, or .mp3 format.
• No identifying information in the submission document