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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/
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
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
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
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
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
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 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/
July 27, 2025 at 2:50 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...
May 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"A Hangang Sunday Afternoon" by artist Dyne Kim, riffing on the French Impressionist Georges Seurat
May 4, 2025 at 2:16 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...
May 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Omg you guys we made it! We're official here!
November 14, 2024 at 4:52 AM