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Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn

Fall 2025 Schedule

Narrative Medicine: Lunch & Learn is a monthly workshop – free and open to all WFU students, faculty, staff, and community members – that introduces participants to Narrative Medicine and its core principles of close reading and reflective writing. Sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, & Healing Initiative, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Facilitators: Aimee Mepham, MFA, Associate Director of the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and Ethan Stonerook, PA-C, MPAS, Assistant Professor, WF School of Medicine, Department of PA Studies.

Fall 2025 Schedule

In-Person Sessions, 12:00-1:15pm on the following Fridays
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September 12th
Reading / creative text: TBA
October 10th
Reading / creative text: TBA
November 14th
Reading / creative text: TBA
December 5th
Reading / creative text: TBA

Zoom Sessions, 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays
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September 11th
Reading / creative text: TBA

October 9th
Reading / creative text: TBA

November 13th
Reading / creative text: TBA

December 4th
Reading / creative text: TBA

Summer 2025 Schedule

Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays for Summer 2025:
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June 12th
Reading: “So Many Tiny Stories” by Sean Lovelace from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (click title for link)

July 10th
Reading: “[into the strenuous briefness]” by E. E. Cummings (click title for link)

August 7th
Reading: “The Thing That Is Breathing For My Father” by Francine Witte from Vestal Review (click title for link)

If you have any questions about Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn, please contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, at mephamam@wfu.edu.