Workshops for Writers - May 4: Narrative Medicine

Join the St. Louis Writers Guild from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CDST on Saturday, May 4, 2024, for a free LIVE workshop with writing professor Aimee Mepham on Narrative Medicine: The Benefits of Close Reading and Reflective Writing.

Our presenter, Aimee Mepham, will join us VIA ZOOM for this FREE workshop. We will gather at The Lodge Des Peres, 1050 Des Peres Rd., St. Louis, MO, 63131 for the presentation, or you may attend the meeting online. Follow the event link from the St. Louis Writers Guild website.

This talk will introduce participants to the principles and practice of Narrative Medicine, the international, clinical, and academic movement that recognizes the vital role that story plays in health care. We will examine this interdisciplinary field's core tenets of close reading and reflective writing by reading a short piece together and engaging with a short writing prompt.  

Aimee Mepham is the Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University and a Part-Time Assistant Professor in the Bioethics, Humanities, and Medicine minor program. She oversees the Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, and Healing initiative, which provides programming in Narrative Medicine to the Wake Forest and Winston-Salem communities. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and has trained in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She has taught at Indiana University, Washington University in St. Louis, Salem College, and Wake Forest University. Her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Meridian, River Styx, among other journals, and has also been performed twice by Liars’ League NYC, a live literary journal featuring professionally trained actors reading original short stories by writers.