Faculty put pen to paper in writer’s workshop
McGovern Medical School faculty have put a new twist on the adage “publish or perish” with their participation in the first McGovern Center Writing Fellows program. The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics just wrapped up the inaugural writing program…
McGovern Center announces partnership with Inprint Houston
The McGovern Center and Inprint Houston are now partnering to offer opportunities to enhance writing among health professionals. This will include having an Inprint Writer-in-Residence who will lead the McGovern Center-Inprint Houston Writing Fellowship. Inprint Houston fosters the art of…
Pritha Bhattacharyya wins prize for fiction
Pritha Bhattacharyya, MFA, won the 2023 Inprint Joan and Stanford Alexander Prize in Fiction. As part of the Menil’s Neighborhood Community Day on April 1, she will give a short reading of her prize-winning work alongside other award recipients. Bhattacharyya…
McGovern Center and faculty featured in new online publication at MMS
The first issue of McGovern Medicine, a new online publication by McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, was released this June. The McGovern Center was featured. In the piece, the Center’s leadership and transition from founding director Thomas Cole, PhD,…
New writing fellowship discussed in Scoop
In August 2022, the John P. McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics will debut a new program for Writing Fellows designed to help health care professionals in the Houston area seeking an avenue to write memoirs or creative nonfiction and…
McGovern Center launches Writing Workshop for Health Professionals
From August 2022–May 2023, health professionals have the opportunity to participate in a new course, featuring once-a-month writing workshops. The course aims to inform, expand, and challenge what participants think about what constitutes creative work and will help them to…