Students, Staff Invited to Submit to Duke COVID Writing Contest

VOICES, a literary journal sponsored by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke, announces a COVID-19 writing contest. The contest is open to all Duke health professional students (medical, nursing, physician assistant, etc.), residents, clinicians, and staff; faculty are invited to submit pieces for publication but will not be included in the contest. 

Any genre of short-form, prose writing – essay, memoir, fiction – will be considered. Target length is 1,000-2,000 words. The first- and second- place winning pieces will be published in the Summer 2020 issue of VOICES. Other pieces of high quality will be considered for publication in the following issue. 

The deadline for submission to the contest is June 15. All entries should be submitted with a cover page that includes the name and contact information of the author and title of the piece; the text itself should follow, on a new page, with no identifying information. The entries will be anonymized and judged by a group consisting of VOICES editors and faculty from the Trent Center.

Please submit to: trent-center@duke.edu