{"id":5894,"global_id":"anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=5894","global_id_lineage":["anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=5894"],"author":"4","status":"publish","date":"2024-09-10 18:25:52","date_utc":"2024-09-10 22:25:52","modified":"2024-09-10 18:26:11","modified_utc":"2024-09-10 22:26:11","url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-the-calendula-review-a-journal-of-narrative-medicine-isee-3-theme-inhale-exhale\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/5894","title":"PFN – The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Issue 3 Theme: Inhale\/Exhale","description":"
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What is Narrative Medicine?<\/span><\/p>\n

Narrative medicine is a new area of study reclaiming the traditional interdisciplinary approach to patient care. Narrative medicine emphasizes understanding patients’ personal narratives to enhance empathy, communication, and healing. By integrating the humanities (art, poetry, writing, and reflective practices) into medical education, narrative medicine fosters a holistic understanding of illness and promotes a more compassionate approach to healthcare. <\/span>The Calendula Review\u00a0aims to highlight diverse work that serves to enlighten and embody the healthcare narrative, directly and indirectly. We appreciate the voices of medical practitioners, patients, caregivers, and anyone affected by, or involved with, illness or medicine in all its myriad forms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Submission Guidelines<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The theme for our November 2024 publication is “Inhale\/Exhale.”<\/span><\/p>\n

We carry the rhythm of breath in our bodies, always–it is ever-present and at the same time, finite and precious. At times, we are viscerally conscious of it, especially when we witness the first or last breath. We breathe with intention during illness, loss, or birthing, to harness our minds, our bodies, retain the moment while moving through. Catching a breath in elation syncopates the cycle in other ways. The simple act of drawing and releasing air has such vital and disparate qualities–it enlightens the senses, brings us in and out of our bodies, informs our actions. And what of the times we need to learn new ways to breathe? What of that liminal space between the inhale and exhale? What resides there? What is it that transitions, transforms, reframes, directs? Breath allows us the space to grieve, accept, be joyous, irate, or peaceful, and it facilitates the process by which we move forward in the world–and do not.\u00a0Inhale\/Exhale\u00a0holds space for a moment, story, or image in all of us. What is yours?<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry: We accept up to 5 poems in whichever format you see fit, but\u00a0no more than five pages in all; Times New Roman, 12 pt. font in a Word file. If you have specific formatting for your poem or you have embedded text within an image, please state this in the description of your submission (you may send us a PDF for reference if this applies). We are open to hybrid poetry pieces that include visual and written elements.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prose: We accept prose submissions (both fiction and creative nonfiction)\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0up to 3000 words. Please double-space your work and use Times New Roman, 12 pt. font. Please send your piece in Word format. We accept up to three pieces of Flash at once as long as the culminating word count is under 3000 words. Please put all pieces in one document with clear titles for each.<\/span><\/p>\n

General guidelines:<\/span><\/p>\n