Tendon Magazine
@tendonmag.bsky.social
A literary and visual arts magazine publishing creative and critical work in the medical humanities since 2019.
https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magazine/
https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magazine/
This week's featured piece is "My Father's Pony" by Amelia Player. Her work explores intensive depths of feeling and strives to create an insightful reflection of our world. Check out the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This week's featured piece is "My Father's Pony" by Amelia Player. Her work explores intensive depths of feeling and strives to create an insightful reflection of our world. Check out the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
Starting off our Editorial Staff Spotlight series with our new Fiction Editor, Caitlin Annette Johnson! Johnson's writing has appeared in NonBinary Review, Anodyne, Dunes Review, and others. We’re so excited to have them on the Tendon team!
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Starting off our Editorial Staff Spotlight series with our new Fiction Editor, Caitlin Annette Johnson! Johnson's writing has appeared in NonBinary Review, Anodyne, Dunes Review, and others. We’re so excited to have them on the Tendon team!
Our featured piece this week is "The way I lie" by Alexandra Bergmann, appearing in Tendon Issue 07: Rest. Bergmann is a writer, scientist, and educator from the San Fransisco Bay Area. Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Our featured piece this week is "The way I lie" by Alexandra Bergmann, appearing in Tendon Issue 07: Rest. Bergmann is a writer, scientist, and educator from the San Fransisco Bay Area. Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
Thank you to all who submitted for Issue 08 - we're excited to share it soon! In the meantime, let's take a trip down memory lane to past issues. Our featured piece is “Transience” by Clement Abayomi, appearing in Tendon Issue 07: Rest. Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thank you to all who submitted for Issue 08 - we're excited to share it soon! In the meantime, let's take a trip down memory lane to past issues. Our featured piece is “Transience” by Clement Abayomi, appearing in Tendon Issue 07: Rest. Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
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Opportunities to submit work for our next issue on the politics and poetics of "Care" are drawing to a close. We look forward to receiving your poetry, art, non-fiction or fiction submissions by 11.1!
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Opportunities to submit work for our next issue on the politics and poetics of "Care" are drawing to a close. We look forward to receiving your poetry, art, non-fiction or fiction submissions by 11.1!
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
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Looking for something to do on the spookiest day of the year? @cncsi.bsky.social is running our annual online Halloween workshop tomorrow with the theme of ‘Gothic Afterlives’ — looking at media receptions of c19 gothic themes in tv, film, video games, & radio 👻 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Looking for something to do on the spookiest day of the year? @cncsi.bsky.social is running our annual online Halloween workshop tomorrow with the theme of ‘Gothic Afterlives’ — looking at media receptions of c19 gothic themes in tv, film, video games, & radio 👻 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Opportunities to submit work for our next issue on the politics and poetics of "Care" are drawing to a close. We look forward to receiving your poetry, art, non-fiction or fiction submissions by 11.1!
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Opportunities to submit work for our next issue on the politics and poetics of "Care" are drawing to a close. We look forward to receiving your poetry, art, non-fiction or fiction submissions by 11.1!
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Tendon is currently soliciting art, poetry, and prose (fiction an non-fiction) on the theme of care. Submit a piece by 10/19 and we'll waive the submission fee!
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tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Tendon is currently soliciting art, poetry, and prose (fiction an non-fiction) on the theme of care. Submit a piece by 10/19 and we'll waive the submission fee!
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
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We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Tendon Magazine Submission Manager
Tendon is the literary and visual arts journal published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine. Our masthead can be found here, and our most recent issue can be found he...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
happy to have you on the team @caitlinannette.bsky.social!
Calling all FICTION baddies! I'm super psyched to tell you all that I am the new Fiction Editor for @tendonmag.bsky.social and I want to see YOU ALL in our subs for Issue 8! Share this widely! Tell your friends!
Submit---> tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Submit---> tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
September 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
happy to have you on the team @caitlinannette.bsky.social!
For those interested, cool things in the works ahead and only two more days to apply!
Come work with us!
Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/
Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/
August 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
For those interested, cool things in the works ahead and only two more days to apply!
Come work with us!
Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/
Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/
July 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Come work with us!
Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/
Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/
Read all of Elizabeth Koch's pithy meditation on balancing the work of mothering with the work of doctoring in our latest issue on Rest, out now:
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
May 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Read all of Elizabeth Koch's pithy meditation on balancing the work of mothering with the work of doctoring in our latest issue on Rest, out now:
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
"A Hangang Sunday Afternoon" by artist Dyne Kim, riffing on the French Impressionist Georges Seurat
May 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"A Hangang Sunday Afternoon" by artist Dyne Kim, riffing on the French Impressionist Georges Seurat
"Every twelve hours, our lives hung together, lines entangled (antibiotics, chemo, antibiotics), as we invited illness to sit among us, drip feed, slowly walk away."
From Karin Eli's poem Maypole, hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
From Karin Eli's poem Maypole, hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
Maypole – Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine
hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org
May 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"Every twelve hours, our lives hung together, lines entangled (antibiotics, chemo, antibiotics), as we invited illness to sit among us, drip feed, slowly walk away."
From Karin Eli's poem Maypole, hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
From Karin Eli's poem Maypole, hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
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Humanity only survives if it matches every advancement in technology with a deepening of the soul. Without clarity about ethics, without sensitivity to truth and beauty, we will quickly lose ourselves in a heartless hellscape of digital minds.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
May 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Humanity only survives if it matches every advancement in technology with a deepening of the soul. Without clarity about ethics, without sensitivity to truth and beauty, we will quickly lose ourselves in a heartless hellscape of digital minds.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
Teach the humanities and the arts.
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I'm so proud of this new issue we put together, and positively chuffed that I finally managed to Trojan horse my favorite bit of Mencius into a piece weaving clinical, ethnographic, and historical reflections I wrote specifically for it. I hope it offers some fun and fruitful food for thought.
Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going.
In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
May 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I'm so proud of this new issue we put together, and positively chuffed that I finally managed to Trojan horse my favorite bit of Mencius into a piece weaving clinical, ethnographic, and historical reflections I wrote specifically for it. I hope it offers some fun and fruitful food for thought.
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Happy to have this essay,"On Fatigue," published at @tendonmag.bsky.social @jhu.edu #chronicillness #writing #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #Rilke #fatigue hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
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May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy to have this essay,"On Fatigue," published at @tendonmag.bsky.social @jhu.edu #chronicillness #writing #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #Rilke #fatigue hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going.
In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
May 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going.
In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
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you know those family portraits where everyone wears denim
April 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
you know those family portraits where everyone wears denim
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This is just to say
I have fucked with
the trolls
that were in
my mentions
and which
I was probably
not
supposed to feed
Forgive me
they were entertaining
so simple
and so mad
I have fucked with
the trolls
that were in
my mentions
and which
I was probably
not
supposed to feed
Forgive me
they were entertaining
so simple
and so mad
February 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is just to say
I have fucked with
the trolls
that were in
my mentions
and which
I was probably
not
supposed to feed
Forgive me
they were entertaining
so simple
and so mad
I have fucked with
the trolls
that were in
my mentions
and which
I was probably
not
supposed to feed
Forgive me
they were entertaining
so simple
and so mad
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Open
my soul to the vast
dark places. Say to me, say again,
nothing is taken, only given.
-Ursula K. Le Guin, January Night Prayer
Properly elegiac, and the penultimate poem in her collection, “Finding My Elegy.” Le Guin passed away seven years ago, in January.
#everynightapoem
my soul to the vast
dark places. Say to me, say again,
nothing is taken, only given.
-Ursula K. Le Guin, January Night Prayer
Properly elegiac, and the penultimate poem in her collection, “Finding My Elegy.” Le Guin passed away seven years ago, in January.
#everynightapoem
February 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Open
my soul to the vast
dark places. Say to me, say again,
nothing is taken, only given.
-Ursula K. Le Guin, January Night Prayer
Properly elegiac, and the penultimate poem in her collection, “Finding My Elegy.” Le Guin passed away seven years ago, in January.
#everynightapoem
my soul to the vast
dark places. Say to me, say again,
nothing is taken, only given.
-Ursula K. Le Guin, January Night Prayer
Properly elegiac, and the penultimate poem in her collection, “Finding My Elegy.” Le Guin passed away seven years ago, in January.
#everynightapoem
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"But also, as a scholar, there’s this long lineage of Black women using form that feels like a necessary disruption of a canon; a subversion of what form used to be." This time last year, we published Ashia Ajani's interview with @taylorbyas.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/3u4MRxN
January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"But also, as a scholar, there’s this long lineage of Black women using form that feels like a necessary disruption of a canon; a subversion of what form used to be." This time last year, we published Ashia Ajani's interview with @taylorbyas.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/3u4MRxN