Spring 2013 issue is now available!

The latest issue has arrived and is making its way to subscribers even as we speak.  We know it's an issue you're sure to enjoy, as it features an essay by author, Harvard professor of psychiatry, and VA Health Services Research Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research associate director Mark S. Bauer, MD; and the winners of our first contest. 

Congratulations to the winners!

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up in the inaugural Examined Life Journal contest. Thanks to all who entered. There were many fantastic entries and it was hard to choose, but these folks' work really stood out to us.

Fiction:
Winner: William Cass- "Empathy"
Runner-up: Jeanne Bereiter- "Looking Back"
Nonfiction:
Winner: Jerome Lane- "Memento Mori"
Runner-up: Jeffrey Weinstock-"Laundry Day"

Poetry: 
Winner: Jonna Higgins-Freese- "The scars"
Runner-up: Michelle Ornat- "You Can Be A Pepper Too"


Congrats again to these fine writers and look for their work in the spring issue of the journal, due out April 10, 2013.

Spring Contest Issue Deadline Extended!

We're extending the deadline for submissions to January 25, 2013!  If you have any questions about the submission process, please don't hesitate to get in touch at contact@theexaminedlifejournal.com. 

New issue now available!

The newest issue of The Examined Life Journal is now available. It's our biggest issue yet, featuring all new design. Please click the tab above to order and/or subscribe.

In addition, we are currently accepting submissions for our inaugural contest issue, to be published in conjunction with The 2013 Examined Life Conference (April 11-13, 2013).

Visit our submissions page for more details. We are also accepting non-contest entry submissions, should you not wish to enter the contest.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Announcing our First Annual Contest Issue!

Beginning with our spring 2013 issue, The Examined Life Journal will kick off our yearly writing contests. Each year we will award prizes in fiction, poetry and nonfiction.

In addition to entry in the contest, each paid submission will be considered for inclusion in the spring issue. In addition to entry into the contest, each entry fee entitles the entrant to a one year subscription to the journal. If you are a current subscriber, your entry will be good for one additional year added to your current subscription. If you do not wish to enter the contest, we’ll still consider your work for the spring issue via our genre categories.

Please be sure to open the confirmation email you receive after you enter the contest and follow the directions therein to redeem your one year subscription.

The details are as follows:

Entry fee: $25 (includes one year subscription to the journal. Each entry will also be considered for inclusion in the spring 2013 issue)

One entry per person, per genre (one piece of prose or up to 3 poems)

1^st Prize for each genre: $300 and an invitation to read your work at the Spring 2013 Examined Life Conference, registration fee included. Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide travel funds.

2nd Prize for each genre: $150 and an invitation to read your work at the Spring 2013 Examined Life Conference, registration fee included. Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide travel funds.

Judges to be announced at a later date.

Deadline for submission: January, 10, 2013.

To enter, please follow this link and select the genre of your choice.

Jason T. Lewis

Director, Writing and Humanities Program

UI Carver College of Medicine

Conference Director, The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine

Managing Editor, The Examined Life literary journal

Co-director, Humanities Distinction Track

UI Carver College of Medicine

The Examined Life Conference opens call for presentations

Announcing the opening of the 2013 call for presentations for The Examined Life Conference. This year the conference will take place April 11-13, 2013. You can find out more and submit your proposal on our website. The call will close on Wednesday, December 3, 2012.

Visit http://examinedlifeconference.com to submit your presentation idea.

The featured event for 2013 will be the debut of an original play created and performed by Working Group Theatre entitled Broken Chord. We're extremely excited about this event and we've been in conversations with Working Group since early last year planning our involvement and support of their work. Here's a brief description of the play:

How do we remember? Why do we forget? When we can no longer pull from the well of memory that lies within us, how do we know who we are? Broken Chord is a new play that explores the uncertain terrain of Early Onset Alzheimer’s, from the point of view of the caregiver and the victim. The culmination of a year-long collaboration between Working Group Theatre and Hancher Auditorium, Broken Chord will weave together the personal stories of those working on the front lines of memory and aging research and patient care, as well as those who are suffering from memory-related diseases. In addition to this fantastic new work, we will also have featured presentations by writer/physician Chris Adrian (The Children's Hospital), as well as Mark S. Bauer, MD, (A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction). 

Special Note: because our featured event this year focuses on memory, we are particularly interested in creating a track of presentations that will focus on this topic throughout the conference. We'd love to see proposals on that subject matter, but of course we are accepting proposals on any topic as well. Please come join us. If you have any questions, we are here to answer them. As always, we welcome any efforts you can make to spread the word.

Again, visit http://examinedlifeconference.com to submit your presentation idea.

New issue in the works!

Our Fall 2012 issue is fully in the works and we plan to have it to you in November. Stay tuned for further announcements!

-The Editors