Ethnographic Narratives, Call for Manuscripts

Narratives sought for series:

AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC, LITERARY, POETIC, ARTISTIC, VISUAL, PERFORMATIVE, CRITICAL, MULTI-VOICED, CONVERSATIONAL, CO-CONSTRUCTED

Series Editors:Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis (University of South Florida)

"Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives" publishes narrative representations of qualitative research projects. The series editors seek manuscripts that blur the boundaries between humanities and social sciences. We encourage novel and evocative forms of expressing concrete lived experience, including autoethnographic, literary, poetic, artistic, visual, performative, critical, multi-voiced, conversational, and co-constructed representations. We are interested in ethnographic narratives that depict local stories; employ literary modes of scene setting, dialogue, character development, and unfolding action; and include the author's critical reflections on the research and writing process, such as research ethics, alternative modes of inquiry and representation, reflexivity, and evocative storytelling.

Proposals and manuscripts should be directed to abochner@cas.usf.edu

See Left Coast Press http://lcoast.sslcert19.com/books_series.php?id=7

Women Who Care: Reflections on Women's Personal & Professional Experiences of the Canadian Health Care System, Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Ph.D.

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2007

" I am writing to formally invite you to contribute to our book: Women Who Care: Reflections on Women’s Personal & Professional Experiences of the Canadian Health Care System. Most women have stories to tell about their experiences of the Canadian health care system: We care for ourselves through personal health and illness; we seek care from others; we are lay caregivers to our children, our partners, our aging parents and our extended families; and some of us work as health care professionals, health educators, health administrators, health policy-makers and leaders in women’s health. "

"We are collecting submissions (written work, visual art, photography) for a book on women’s personal and professional experiences of health care – enlightening or confusing, moments of healing or times of discouragement, celebrations of empowerment and change or frustration with barriers and the status quo. We care about women’s health care. "

About Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Ph.D.

"I am a medical anthropologist. I have spent the past fifteen years speaking to people about
their experiences of health and illness, their bodies, their emotions, their personal and community wellbeing. My areas of passion include gender, women’s health, Indigenous health, community-based health initiatives and collaborative processes in health policy development and implementation. I worked with the World Health Organization in Mali (West Africa) and as a consultant in First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities in Canada, and Koori communities in
south-eastern Australia. I have published several articles in academic and scientific journals, and I have an ethnography, Hard Yakka: Transforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics, which is just going to press. I am a co-facilitator of Women of Ottawa Reading Diverse Subjects, a discussion group in association with Octopus Books and the Ottawa branch of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada. I am also currently a medical student at The University of Ottawa. "

Above excerpts from The Canadian Breast Cancer Network
http://www.cbcn.ca/en/?section=5&category=386®ionid=&page=9026

See PDF Call for Submissions "Women Who Care" for detailed information
http://www.cbcn.ca/documents/pdf/Women_Who_Care_CALL_FOR_SUBMISSIONS.pdf

Call for Women Who Love to Read, Proceeds help support Pain Centres

"WOMEN WHO LOVE TO READ PROJECT"
A portion of the sales to be donated to Foothills Hospital and University of Alberta Pain Centre

Fair's Fair Books ("For Book Lovers") Inc., Calgary, Alberta, invites submissions in English (or French with an English translation included) for a forthcoming online site project under the rubric of "Women Who Love to Read Project."

Submissions may be forwarded by e-mail to ytrainer@telusplanet.net (no underlining) with the Subject Heading "Women Who Love to Read." We ask that submissions be 500-700 words in length. We will accept submissions from July 10th, 2007-Dec. 2007.

100 of the online site entries will then be chosen for a hardcopy anthology titled "Women Who Love to Read." The honorarium will be in the form of copies of the anthology, and a portion of the sales from the Anthology will be donated to the pain centers at the Foothills Hospital and University of Alberta Pain Center for the purchase of books for patients. The copyright remains with the author. Slight substantive editing may be necessary for purposes of formatting and consistency.

You may wish to consider the following: (These are merely suggestions.)

What do you remember about your first reading experiences?
What did you read as a child?
Who read to you?
How has that reading affected, changed, influenced your later life?
Where did you read?
What were your favorite childhood and teenage books?
What are you reading now?

Contact:

Yvonne Trainer, B.A.; M.A., PhD (English) Info: ytrainer@telusplanet.net
Literary Arts Coordinator "Fair's Fair Books," Calgary, Alberta
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Humanities, Ambrose University College, Calgary, AB

Nurse Poets Sought for Magazine Publishing Opportunity

Magazine Seeks Submissions from Nurse Poets

This note forwarded today from CCAHTE liaison, Eastern U.S., Dr. Stephanie Brown Clark, Assistant Professor, Medical Humanities, Centre for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Every issue of RATTLE gathers poems from a specific ethnic, vocational, or social group, comprising a special section of about 20 pages. We're currently seeking submissions from nurse poets for our Winter 2007 issue.

We want...

poems written by nurses -- they don't have to be about nurses. If you're a nurse, submit 3- 5 poems by August 15th, 2007.

We're also seeking ...

essays about the relationship between nursing and/or medicine and poetry -- why are there so many nurse- poets? How does working in this career affect your writing? Does poetry affect how you do your job? If you can write an essay that encompasses both nurses and poetry, we're interested.

Feel free to query first by email
timgreen@rattle.com


For more information on upcoming tributes and special guidelines, see our
call for submissions page http://www.rattle.com/callsforsubs.htm