Atlas- a medical literary journal: seeking submissions for issue 03

Atlas is a literary journal encouraging critical thought and creativity in medicine.

Atlas offers an alternative to the usual scientific discourse that surrounds our bodies. It hopes to shift our medical conversations away from the rigid and prescriptive, to a literary form that accommodates our human complexities. We hope Atlas might begin to dismantle the divisions set up between the natural and social sciences through the recognition that both are interdependent, particularly in medical care. The journal began in 2016 as an annual print publication and is sold in bookstores in New Zealand and the USA. We are now expanding to publish regular writing online as well as in print. We are currently calling for submissions of essays, short-form think pieces and poetry that approach questions of the human body and health care system with originality, critique and breadth. We are particularly interested in writing that takes a wider historical or social perspective on topics typically analysed within empirical science. If you are interested in contributing, please get in touch with us at atlasliteraryjournal@gmail.com.

Submissions close on the 30th of May 2018.