10th Hippocrates International Poetry and Medicine Conference and Awards: Call for papers
The call is now open for papers for the 10th annual international symposium on poetry and medicine, which is being held as a partnership between the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine and the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts and the Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice. The conference will be held on the 17th May 2019 at the Centre for Life in Newcastle in the UK.
This conference will include a symposium on Julia Darling: Changing the Vocabulary of Pain: the life, work and legacy of Julia Darling.
Other speakers will include Owen Lewis, USA, on poetry for health professionals, Anthony Daniels, UK, and Michael Salcman, USA, on doctor poets, Élise Brault-Dreux, France, on medical themes in poetry, Luz-Mar Gonzalez-Arias, Spain, on campaigning Irish poet Dorothy Molloy, and Christy Ducker and Wendy French, both from the UK, on poet residencies in health settings.
Find out how to submit your paper here
Deadline for papers: 15th April 2019.
Registration is now open to attend. Details here