Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.

    Artwork or Photography: All artwork and photography is in digital format (JPEG). Scanned images have a resolution of at least 300 dpi and are not larger than 20MB.

Author Guidelines

The following submissions will be considered for publication:

  1. Prose (Fiction or Non-Fiction): Submissions should be less than 1500 words, and should center on the human condition. Topics may include, but are not limited to: medicine, illness, healing, aging, pain, emotion, etc. 
  2. Poetry: Submit up to three poems in a single file.
  3. Artwork or Photography: All artwork and photography should be submitted in digital format (JPEG). Scanned images should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Artwork cannot be larger than 20mb.
  4. Music: We are able to publish lyrics, as well as links to original musical compositions via SoundCloud. Links may be accompanied by a statement from the composer.
  5. The Bunion: HEAL's satire column.
  6. HEAL en Español: HEAL welcomes Spanish language submissions in any of the above categories.

 

Prose

All non-poetry written submissions should be in this category.  This includes, but is not limited to book excerpts, essays and short stories.

The Bunion (Satire)

The Bunion is a place for satirical medical news and humor related to experiences with which medical students, faculty, and clinicians are all familiar. Such experiences can involve the FSU College of Medicine, the medical school experience, or healthcare in general. Content is not intended to offend or humiliate anyone. All names are factitious and any resemblance to actual people would be merely coincidental.

Cover Art Contest!

CONTEST GUIDELINES

  • Maximum two entries per artist.
  • All mediums welcome!
  • Contestants do not need to be affiliated with the College of Medicine.
  • All entries will be considered for inclusion in Volume 15.
  • You may submit artwork that has already been submitted or published in HEAL during 2024.
  • Files should be at least 300 dpi.
  • Winner to be chosen by the HEAL editorial and design teams.

Dance/Performance Videos

Please submit a link or upload a video file. If your video is chosen we will publish with a QR code that brings our audience to your video. We will publish a brief paragraph about the piece next to the QR code.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. HEAL does accept previously published material. Please make a note of this in the submission comments.

    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).