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A literary and visual arts magazine publishing creative and critical work in the medical humanities since 2019.

https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magazine/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!

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Image of a countdown collage marked with "just a few more days... follow care to where it frays. Tendon issue 8. Send us work that considers care beyond its usual coordinates. Due 11/1"
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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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A flyer for fee-free submission weekend for Tendon's 8th issue on the politics and poetics of care. Submit 10/17-19 ans we'll waive our standard nominal submission fee
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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.

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Tendon Magazine: We're Recruiting Editors, Readers, Interns Volunteer, remote compatible, 1-5 hours/week Deadline August 15, 2025 Questions? Don't hesitate to reach out to tendonmag@gmail.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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:

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Pre-call, Elizabeth Koch The doctor who is a mother knows that she is one of the lucky ones. On most nights, except the one or two or three a week when she is on call, she is able to frown at the canvas bag of produce that she picked up from the CSA she’d signed them up for, conjure up a recipe that both her husband and children will eat, and fill the small house with steam and sizzle and the ticking of the oven warming itself. She is able, on most nights, to squint into her children’s crocodile mouths and scrub their little molars with an electric brush, careful not to mix up their separate toothpastes. Then she is able to read to them, alternating nights in each one’s bed, Jane Eyre for her precocious third grader, and, for her five-year-old, the one about the boy and his hunting hounds that always makes her cry.
May 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"A Hangang Sunday Afternoon" by artist Dyne Kim, riffing on the French Impressionist Georges Seurat
A painting of people gathered by the bank of the Han River, painted in the style of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
May 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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...
A woman melts into a bed, daily objects floating around her, and a blue forest of vines lurking in the background
May 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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November 14, 2024 at 4:52 AM