The Healing Muse

The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics & Humanities. We welcome fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs and visual art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing.
Have a question for the staff of The Healing Muse?
Call 315.464.8464 or email hlgmuse@upstate.edu
Introducing Volume 19
An Interview with Deirdre Neilen
Editor Deirdre Neilen recently sat down with Amber Smith, host of HealthLink On Air, to discuss the new issue of The Muse. Published this Fall, the issue marks the journal's 19th year.
To listen to Deirdre's interview (originally aired, October 20), visit:
http://blogs.upstate.edu/healthlinkonair/2019/10/23/latest-volume-of-the-healing-muse-marks-the-upstate-literary-journals-19th-year/
For an archive of past readings of selections from The Muse, see:
http://blogs.upstate.edu/healthlinkonair/category/the-healing-muse/
HealthLink On Air airs every Sunday on NPR station WRVO.
Come join us for our Launch Party to celebrate:
The Healing Muse (Vol. 19)
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Medical Alumni Auditorium (766 Irving Avenue)
Meet our writers, artists, and editors
***Light refreshments to follow reading*
Open to all
Order Volume 19 now! Details here
The Healing Muse / Round & Ripe & Wise Launch Party
Please join us!
Thursday, October 25, 2018
4:00 - 5:00
Medical Alumni Auditorium (766 Irving Avenue)
Meet our writers, artists, and editors
Refreshments to be served after
Announcing Round & Ripe & Wise!
BA St. Andrews, founding editor of The Healing Muse, was an accomplished poet. Before her untimely death in 2003, she published over 200 of her poems in leading magazines and literary and medical journals. This collection includes unpublished poems alongside ones familiar to her readers, as well as some of the art that inspired hers.
Each person who donated to, was featured in, or purchases The Healing Muse Volume 18 will received one free copy of Round & Ripe & Wise. Additional copies can be purchased here.
Upcoming 2018/19 Readings
We will be having readings at:
Wells College, Auburn, NY
October 30th
Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
TBD
Ulysses Philomathic Library, Trumansburg, NY
TBD
Readings are free and open to the public.
Questions? Please e-mail us at The Healing Muse: hlgmuse@upstate.edu
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