"La Selva" by Sara Brenner

A literary and arts magazine produced by the University of Iowa’s Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

May 2004-- In This Issue:
The 11th Annual Carol A. Bowman Creative Writing Contest for Medical Students

Created by Richard Caplan, M.D.

Sponsored by the UI Carver College of Medicine Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities

Co-sponsored by the UI Carver College of Medicine's Writing Program.

Judged by David Hamilton, Ph.D.

Dr. Richard Caplan, M.D.A Message from
Dr. Richard Caplan, M.D.

I established the Carol A. Bowman Creative Writing Contest after the death of Dr. Bowman, who had just received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Medical Humanities, although for several years I had been sponsor of such an effort in cooperation with Vital Signs. The purpose was to encourage medical students to reflect on their new experiences in the world of medicine and to encourage the process and discipline of putting words on paper effectively, and to enjoy the satisfactions of creative effort.

About the 2004 contest...

First Place

Honorable Mention

Liquid Paradise
by Sara Brenner
I was surfing
by Ron Boeding
Second Place
Me Gusta Camarones
by Katie Iossi
Switching Tags
by Anna Peters
 
flowerlost and Raped
by Haley Newbrough
Third Place
La Avenida
by Margaret Roth
Reckoning with Tre
by Maggie Siska
Stories from Within
by Ashley Sens
Transfer and Hurricane
by Kevin Wyne
     
Contributors    
Looking Through a Baby's Eyes | Corpus Luteum | Bent are the Trees | The Glow of Early Light | When Everything Seemed Upside Down | Anatomy | Unspoken | What a Crappy Day, by Kevin Birusingh | Dear Friends, by Ron Boeding | Footrace, by Elijah Edwards | Departure...and arrival, by Sahib Khalsa | Physician, Heal Thyself, by Lee Kimball | Calm Water Afternoon, by Anne Kreeger | On the Naming of Parts, by Tom McNalley | Fruit-Picking in California, by Tom McNalley | Teaching Points, by Tom McNalley | Making a Connection, by Katie Nielsen | Metaphor for Illness, by Emily Norland | The Gift, by Emily Porter | A Simple Metanarrative, by Steven Rippentrop | Not Yet Thomas More's Utopia, nor Emma Lazarus's "New Colossus", by Steven Rippentrop | The Others, by Margaret Roth | Grievance, by Margaret Roth | Another Dawn, by Shane Smith | Untitled, by Erin Williams

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