Thank you for your interest in submitting to Intertwine, UCSF's first healthcare learner-led arts and humanities online journal. We accept poetry, prose, and visual art pieces that reflect the themes listed below and are crafted by UCSF learners (graduate/health professional students, residents, fellows, post-docs). Please review the information on the submission form carefully and use it to submit your pieces. We are not currently accepting submissions but will update this page once submissions open.
Mission:
· Create a journal that celebrates the personal, professional, and relational identities and stories that arise from learning, working, and interfacing with the diverse UCSF community.
Values:
· Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and advocacy
· Support identity, personal and professional growth, and socioeconomic and cultural diversity
· Respect and draw attention towards external and internal conflicts that arise from being a part of the healthcare system
· Uplift narratives of those who are underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by social and professional hierarchy
Themes from spring 2024 submission (deadline passed):
· Identity, growth, and change
· Diversity and adversity
· Advocacy and social justice
Guidelines
· Each author may submit up to 3 original pieces.
· For written content, please follow MLA formatting.
· Remove all identifying signatures from your submission (ex. author name).
· Poetry pieces should not exceed 600 words.
· Prose pieces should not exceed 2500 words.
· Visual art pieces may include but are not limited to 2D, 3D/sculptural, and 4D/video and audio formats.
· For poetry and prose pieces, please submit as a GoogleDoc link, Microsoft Word Doc, or pdf.
· For visual art pieces, please submit as .jpg, .tiff, .mp4, or website link (ex. Youtube).
We will leave the interpretation of the aforementioned themes to the authors. However, all submitted content should be respectful of those of different races, ethnicities, religions, or other backgrounds.
Please only submit original work that has not been previously published. Original work is defined as pieces created independently by the submitting author without copying from prior work or deriving assistance from artificial intelligence or similar modalities. Work may simultaneously be submitted to other publications. If the work is accepted for publication elsewhere, notify the Intertwine Editorial Board immediately via email.
Thank you again for your interest, and we are excited to see your work soon!