University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill medical students created the journal in 1997 to give voice to a creative community centered on illness and healing. In the fourth edition, editors have chosen poetry, fiction, art and photography from UNC-CH and Chapel Hill community members that promote reflection and discussion about the many dimensions of illness, suffering and caring for others. Literature and art soothe the soul, but they also challenge us to understand the humanity of health and illness in ways that science, technology and health care delivery systems cannot.
Copies are also available at off-campus sites.
Refreshments will be served. Editors are accepting submissions for the fifth edition, with a deadline of Dec. 1. Those submitting written pieces should include two typed hard copies and, if possible, a computer disk. Black and white photography and photographs of artwork are preferred.