This week’s featured piece from Issue 08: Care is “Death of the Son” by Jacob Cherry. Check out the full description of his work here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

The countdown is on… T-MINUS 2 WEEKS left to submit your work for Issue 09: Witness. 👀 The deadline for submissions is NOVEMBER 1ST at 11:59PM. See tendonmag.submittable.com/submit for more details.

Contributor Spotlight: Eleanor Holmes! Eleanor is a mother-doctor-writer of prose, poetry & hybrid. A fun fact: she met her husband on the language learning app ‘Hello Talk’ & was married a year later in St Mary’s Lighthouse in Whitley Bay. Find her at @eleanorholmes.bsky.social.

Our featured piece from Issue 08: Care is “Leave of Absence” by Mark Foss. Foss is the author of three novels. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Canadian, American, and British journals and anthologies. Read his full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Contributor Spotlight: Eliana Gruvman!Gruvman is a writer and editor from Long Island, New York. She is currently trying (and failing) to learn how to surf and perfect her banana bread recipe. Her work is upcoming in Two Children and has appeared across Fordham’s platforms.

Update: You can now can now submit pitches for critical perspectives essays on the theme of witness via Submittable. tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

This week’s featured piece from Issue 08: Care is “A Neat Little Prayer” by Mia Sitterson. Sitterson is a postpartum doula and dancer moving and grooving in Washington, DC. Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

We are so excited to announce that submissions for Issue 09: Witness are now open! Check out the full call for submissions here: tendonmag.submittable.com/submit We will be accepting work until 11/1.

Today’s featured piece from Issue 08: Care is Voicemail by Lynn Aprill. Aprill is a retired educator and MFA student at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. Read the full poem at hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz....

We are beyond excited to announce the theme for Tendon's ninth issue: Witness. For more details, check out our newsletter here: mailchi.mp/72f77170aa9f... Stay tuned for our call for submissions, coming soon!

Featuring “Type 24 Coastline” by Liam Chimba. Chimba is a graduate of Creative Writing & Philosophy from the University of Chichester & University of Essex. His work appears in Fugitives & Futurists, Peatsmoke Journal, & Maudlin House. Read here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Contributor Spotlight: Jennifer Weigand. Jennifer is a medical speech-language pathologist. She co-leads a women’s writing group, & writes fiction & poetry for readers who’ve known illness, trauma & the ache of loneliness. Check out her website here: jenniferweigandwriter.com/profile/abou...

This week’s featured piece is “Faith’s Keeper” by Devan Brettkelly. Brettkelly is a copywriter and short story writer. She graduated from Scripps College and holds an MFA in Fiction from Saint Mary’s College. Check out the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Contributor Spotlight: Sarah Cross. Sarah is a poet & a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist & a mother. She currently lives in Connecticut. She edits poetry for the Journal of Medical Humanities. She has travelled to six continents & 45 states. Read more here: medicine.yale.edu/profile/sara...

Our featured piece this week is “Tray Line” by Udgita Pamidigantam. Pamidigantam is an undergraduate student and researcher at Johns Hopkins University studying Molecular and Cellular Biology and Medicine, Science and the Humanities. Read here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Contributor Spotlight: Katia Engell. Katia is an artist & poet located in Toronto, Canada. When she’s not making art, you’ll likely find her working creatively with older adults & people living with dementia. Her primary art medium is collage. Find her on IG @planetkatia_

This week’s Issue 08 feature is “Instructions for Care” by Eleanor Holmes. Holmes is an ND mother-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. She lives in Valencian Country, Spain, and works as a hybrid GP for the NHS in Weston-super-mare. Read the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Today’s Issue 08 feature is “Sole Purpose” by Gloria Heffernan. Heffernan is the author of the collections Peregrinatio: Poems for Antarctica (Kelsay Books) and What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List (New York Quarterly Books). Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

This week's featured Issue 08 piece: “It’s In Your Blood (My Mother Tells Me)” by Brenton Sizwe Zola. Sizwe Zola is a first-generation writer, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher. See the full piece and learn more about the author at tendonmag.org .

Issue 08: Care Contributor Spotlight — Autumn Ogunbamise. She is a NP specializing in Neurosurgery, mother of two, artist and wife. She has been a nurse practitioner in neurosurgery for 10 years and likes to taking painting and drawing classes in her spare time. IG @szgrnbrg

Issue 08: Care Spotlight — “Only a Memory” by GJ Gillespie. Utilizing figurative forms to highlight vulnerabilities held in the human condition, Gillespie’s work explores the fragility of consciousness and identity. See the piece and learn more about the artist at tendonmag.org.

Contributor Spotlight: Elodie Saint-Louis. A Haitian‑American writer and cultural storyteller, she's been published in ZZYZYVA, Joyland, Dazed, and Hyperallergic. She is the recipient of the Georgia Poet Laureate’s Prize and is a 2021 Periplus Fellow. IG @aselodie Substack Permanent Daydream.

Featured piece from Issue 08: Care - “Cookbook” by Eliana Gruvman. Gruvman is a passionate reader, editor, and writer. She currently serves as Editorial Feedback Consultant and flash fiction editorial assistant at CRAFT. Read the whole piece at tendonmag.org.

Contributor Spotlight: Willy Conley is a Baltimore-based writer, photographer, and professor emeritus of theatre at Gallaudet University. Born profoundly deaf, he first turned to photography after a 1975 internship in Johns Hopkins’ Department of Pathology Photography. See more at willyconley.com.

From Issue 08: Care — “Beads” by Babs Weiss. Weiss's mother was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome in 2022, and “Beads” offers insight into that period of their lives. She is a textile artist and garment designer based in Philadelphia, PA. You can find her work on Instagram at @babstextiles.

Editorial Staff Spotlight: Khalid Mitchell. Khalid currently lives in Charleston, SC and is doing a service year for AmeriCorps as a Literacy Interventionist. He has been published in BULLSHIT LIT and Astrolabe and was included in Best Small Fictions 2025. Check out his Letterboxd (@defeatist).

From Issue 08: Care, “Let Me See Your Face” By Daniel Barrios. Barrios is a Dominican/Puerto Rican writer and educator from Staten Island, NY. He was a finalist in the 2025 EastOver Prize for Debut Story Collection and the 2025 Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series. Read it at tendonmag.org

Join us at #AWP26 in Tendon’s hometown of Baltimore! 🥳 Drop by Booth 238 at the Bookfair to pick up a freshly printed copy of our new issue and a few other fun goodies—then check out more work by our co-exhibitor @synapsisjournal.bsky.social. We’re so excited to see you there!

Contributor Spotlight: Lucy Zhang! Zhang writes, codes, & watches anime. Her work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review, & elsewhere. She’s actively trying to teach her 5-month-old to appreciate the art of literature & anime. Find her on IG @Dango_Ramen.

Our first featured piece from “Care”: “Fistful of Ocean” by Dariana Guerrero. Guerrero is a writer, activist, educator, & spoken word poet from Lawrence, MA. You can find more of her work on darianaguerrero.com. Read the full poem here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...