Description
Please See Me is published two to three times a year, and seeks to elevate the voices and health-related stories of vulnerable populations and those who care for them. Our style can be thought of as a cross between the creative vibe of your favorite literary magazine and the healthcare-narrative focus of The Intima. Each issue will suggest a theme as a starting point for content, and we welcome creativity in your approach to that theme. We are especially looking for content that connects us, make us feel something, or helps us see illness, wellness, health, or the healthcare environment differently. If you aren’t sure if your work fits, please feel free to query us.
What We Publish
We accept previously unpublished, creative, and high-quality work in the form of: poetry, creative nonfiction/essays, fiction/short stories/flash fiction, and digital media (photography, drawings, paintings, podcasts, and short films).
What We Ask of You
Upon acceptance, Please See Me retains first-time publishing rights, and the work will be published online. We also reserve the right to publish in a print anthology for promotional purposes at a later date. All rights revert back to authors and artists 30 days after publication, and we ask that if the work is published elsewhere at a later date that Please See Me is credited as first-time publisher.
Please wait to hear back from us before resubmitting.
Compensation
We are continuosly seeking grant funding to compensate our writers and staff for their talents. At present, we are a volunteer organization and offer publication credit for your work. We have been fortunate to work with writers, poets and artists in all stages of their careers and love nothing more than to celebrate the past and future success of our Please See Me family!
General Submission Guidelines
Poetry
Please submit a maximum of three poems at a time.
Fiction
Please submit short stories up to 4,000 words in length, double-spaced, 12 point serif font.
Creative Nonfiction
Please submit nonfiction pieces up to 4,000 words in length, double-spaced, 12 point serif font.
We will look at excepts of longer works on a case-by-case basis; please query us with a description of your project before submitting longer work.
Films
Please submit short films up to five minutes in length.
Other Media
We welcome submissions of digital art of any kind, photography, podcasts, and other media. If you can create it and relate it to health and wellness, we will consider it!
It's the choices we make each day - big and small - that define our life, and we want to hear about your health-related choices that have had a lasting impact on you or those you love.
- What does it mean to you to have choices related to your health and well-being? To have limited choices?
- How do you respond when you are faced with a hard choice? Sophie's choice?
- Is there a moment in time you would like to change that led to the wrong choice?
- Is there a "Sliding Doors" moment in your life that makes you wonder what your life might be life had you made a different choice?
- As healthcare professionals, you make choices on behalf of your patients every day. You guide patients to make their own difficult or joyful choices. We want to hear about the choices you or your patients have made that have had particular lasting meaning in your life.
Our PSM Issue #18 theme provides an opportunity to reflect on the health-related choices we make in our lives, as well as what it means to have a choice in our care--the care we seek, the care we don't seek and the reasons why for both.
These are the stories in all forms--creative nonfiction, short stories, poetry, film, photography and digital art--we are curating for Spring Issue #18.
Be sure to follow all Please See Me general Submission Guidelines, and as always, our theme is a place to start. It's your canvas!
If you're not sure if your project fits, send us a short description and we'll let you know if we're interested in taking a look at it.