Tendon Magazine

Meet one of our Nonfiction Readers: Maggie Hart! Maggie is a Pushcart Prize nominee and her works have been featured in Narratively, The Audacity, The Blood Project, Mud Season Review, December, and elsewhere. Outside of school, she enjoys hiking, running, and traveling 🌎

This week's featured piece is "The Harpy and the Featherbed" by Lamb. Her work blurs the boundaries between the body and the natural world, and centers on themes of chronic illness, transformation, and mortality. Check out the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

This week's contributor feature is Lynn Thayer! Lynn is a multidisciplinary artist from Salida, CO. She's a graduate of Lighthouse’s Poetry Collective and was accepted to a residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2026. Check out her works at www.lynnthayer.com

This week's featured piece is "(un) rest" by K.F. Mittendorf. Mittendorf is a multiply-disabled academic scientist, advocate, and full-time patient for the last decade whose work can be found at katemittendorf.com. See their full piece in Issue 07: Rest!

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!

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...

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"

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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Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives - Durham University

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...

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"

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

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

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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Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. 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. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025 Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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

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
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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!

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

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/

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.

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...

Oh no... if you're using letterhead it might help to replace it with a smaller logo. Doing that bought be an extra couple of lines, I think.

Read more about Dyne's work in our new issue here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

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

"A Hangang Sunday Afternoon" by artist Dyne Kim, riffing on the French Impressionist Georges Seurat

No, and it was actually recommended to me to alter the default margins as well down to a trimmer 1" uniform

"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...

Doctor frankenshteen

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.

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.

Happy to have this essay,"On Fatigue," published at @tendonmag.bsky.social @jhu.edu #chronicillness #writing #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #Rilke #fatigue 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

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...

Levinia Fontana, Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children. a noblewoman poses with five children and a dog. they all have ruffled collars and ostentatious, intricately patterned clothing.

you know those family portraits where everyone wears denim

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