The 2012 Humanities Poetry & Prose Contest
THEME: What Makes the Arts Heal and Healing an Art?
1. Open to all health profession students, researchers, residents, fellows, health care practitioners and faculty working or studying in Canada.
2. Deadline: Monday March 19, 2012.
3. Parameters: All works must be previously unpublished and relate to the above theme. Poetry, limited to two submissions per person. Prose works, limited to 1 per person, can be any style (e.g., creative nonfiction, fiction, essay etc.).
4. Length:
Poetry: Maximum to 52 lines in length.
Prose: Maximum 1500 words.
5. Send your submission electronically to: ccme.contest@gmail.com. In the subject line, state which contest you are entering (poetry or prose). Include in your covering note your full name, mailing address, telephone number and name of the school or organization you are affiliated with. Please state that your work is original, previously unpublished and that you authorize its publication in ARS Medica or CMAJ. Also please specify if you are a student/resident.
6. Judges: Editors at ARS MEDICA , the CMAJ and the Massey College Barbara Moon-Ars Medica Fellow.
7. Prizes. The three winners (first, second and third) in each category will receive a one-year subscription to ARS Medica (www.ars-medica.ca). Winning submissions will be published in either ARS Medica or the CMAJ.
8. Only the winners will be contacted. Winners will be announced at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME) conference in Banff, Alberta April 13, 2012
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