The Pegasus Review: a Medical Literary Journal

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Submissions Open: November 11, 2024- January 6, 2025

Medicine & the Muse is pleased to announce an open call for unpublished short stories, essays or poetry addressing patients and providers facing chronic or life limiting illness.

Entries will be evaluated within their own genre: poetry, fiction and non-fiction. 

Contest Guidelines Short Stories/Essays/Fiction/Non-fiction: Less than 2500 words Poetry: Less than 50 lines

Dual submissions permitted, if they are in different genres. No more than two submissions. Simultaneous submissions permitted, but please withdraw your piece if it gets published elsewhere. Collections of poems are permitted, but please adhere to the line limit. 

Fee The submission fee is $35 per entry. There is no charge for students, residents and fellows. Please use the appropriate submission portal. Open to all, please share widely.  

Submission Deadline: January 6, 2025 Winners announced: March 21, 2025 

Past Judges Have Include Drs. Lucy Kalanithi and Daniel Mason, Stanford physician writers, Dr. Jay Baruch, Brown University Alpert School of Medicine physician writer, Dr. Irène Mathieu, Assistant Director, Program in Health Humanities, University of Virginia, Grace Li, MD candidate and author, and Executive Director of Stanford Medical Humanities & Arts program, Jacqueline Genovese

Award Total of 3 winners, one from each genre will be awarded a cash prize of $300. 

Honorarium made possible by the generosity of a Stanford Palliative Care benefactor.

Winners will be published in Anastomosis, Stanford University School of Medicine’s humanities and literary journal. 

Notes before uploading submission document:  - Must be font size 11 or greater  - Provide title page with the title of your submission. Do not include your name anywhere on your submission, including on the title page. 

If you have any inquiries, please email Christy Hartman at hartman7@stanford.edu with the subject line “Kalanithi Writing Award.” To submit, please use an existing Submittable account or create a new one.

Submissions Open: November 11, 2024- January 6, 2025

Medicine & the Muse is pleased to announce an open call for unpublished short stories, essays or poetry addressing patients and providers facing chronic or life limiting illness.

Entries will be evaluated within their own genre: poetry, fiction and non-fiction. 

Contest Guidelines  Short Stories/Essays/Fiction/Non-fiction: Less than 2500 words  Poems: Less than 50 lines

Dual submissions permitted, if they are in different genres. No more than two submissions. Simultaneous submissions permitted, but please withdraw your piece if it gets published elsewhere. Collections of poems are permitted, but please adhere to the line limit. The submission fee is $35 per entry. There is no charge for students, residents and fellows. Please use the appropriate submission portal. Open to all, please share widely.  

Submission Deadline January 6, 2025

Winners announced on March 21, 2025 

Past Judges Have Included Drs. Lucy Kalanithi and Daniel Mason, Stanford physician writers, Dr. Jay Baruch, Brown University Alpert School of Medicine physician writer, Dr. Irène Mathieu, Assistant Director, Program in Health Humanities, University of Virginia, Grace Li, MD candidate and author of NYT bestseller, PORTRAIT OF A THIEF, and Executive Director of Stanford Medical Humanities & Arts program, Jacqueline Genovese

Award  Total of 3 winners, one from each genre will be awarded a cash prize of $300. 

Honorarium made possible by the generosity of a Stanford Palliative Care benefactor.

Winners will be published in Anastomosis, Stanford University School of Medicine’s humanities and literary journal. 

Notes before uploading submission document:  - Must be font size 11 or greater  - Provide title page with the title of your submission. Do not include your name anywhere on your submission, including on the title page. 

If you have any inquiries, please email Christy Hartman at hartman7@stanford.edu with the subject line “Kalanithi Writing Award.” To submit, please use an existing Submittable account or create a new one.

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