Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa Anthology is a medical humanities journal featuring contributions in writing and visual arts from members of the Vandy Med community.

The 2023-2024 edition is now available! Click on the cover below to access this year’s edition.

How to submit your work

Have a creative work that you’re particularly proud of? We invite you to submit it for inclusion in Tabula Rasa.

To submit a piece to be considered for publication in the upcoming volume of Tabula Rasa, email it as an attachment to postcallanthology@gmail.com.

All submissions should meet the following guidelines:

Written submissions should be typed and double-spaced.
For fiction and non-fiction, please limit submissions to 2,000 words. Excerpts of longer works are welcome, if self-contained. If you have a work that is longer than 2,000 words, we can feature an excerpt in our publication with a full version online.
For poetry, there is no line limit.
For artwork and photography, we accept pieces in either color or black-and-white. We recommend submitting works in .tif format, but will accept submissions as .jpg, .gif, .png, or .pdf files as well.
On a separate page from your submission, submit a one-paragraph biography (max. 75 words) written in third person. Include your full name, current degree program and year (for students), and professional title and department at VU/VUMC (for faculty/staff).

Older editions:

Read extended versions of the following works from the 2020-2021 edition of Tabula Rasa here:

Read extended versions of the following works from the 2019-2020 edition of Tabula Rasa here:

“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art.”
Paracelsus