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The Centre is thrilled to be sponsoring two issues of the Flash Frontier journal, The first issue, themed around He Mutunga: Endings, is currently open for submissions of pieces of writing of a maximum 250 words The Centre is also convening two recorded panels, under the theme of Endings, and tied to topics in the medical humanities, which will be released on the journal's YouTube channel.

We are now open for applications from people who would like to participate in our 2026 community creative workshop programme. This year's programme focuses on people with lived experiences of Long Covid and/or ME/CFS, offering personalised mentorship in short-form creative writing (including poetry or flash fiction). Workshop format and output The workshop programme will run over the first half of 2026, with the number and format of sessions designed based on feedback from

This year we are hosting a series of roundtable panels, on the topic of "What is the medical humanities" as a way to invite more people to engage with and learn about this field. The first panel will be on Friday 27th March, at 3:00-4:30pm, and will be followed by our launch party. Announcements on speakers to come soon!

In late 2025 we were thrilled to receive the news that our application for funding for a new research Centre, focused on the Medical Humanities, had been funded by the University of Otago. We shared a little about what this means to us, here. What's next We already have a strong and engaged membership, and are working now on setting up our 2026 programme of events, community workshops, grants, and creative activities, as well as getting all the infrastructure in place, to w