10/27/2025
Connective Tissue, UT Health San Antonio’s annual literary and arts journal, is accepting submissions for the 2026 issue of the journal!
Connective Tissue is a publication of the Cheever Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics and is open to submissions from all students, faculty, staff, residents, and alumni from UT Health San Antonio. The journal publishes high-quality original works of prose, poetry, 55-word stories, photography, and visual art. This year, we are also including original music works as a brand-new category!
We are excited to announce this year’s theme for Connective Tissue, “Metamorphosis.” This theme explores the profound transformation central to health, healing, and our work. For trainees, this journey is more than acquiring knowledge; it is a metamorphosis of identity, perspective, and responsibility—the process of becoming a healer. But transformation touches us all: our patients, colleagues, and selves. It happens in illness and healing, at birth and loss, at the bedside, and in the operating room.
For this edition, we invite you to explore these moments of transformation—the profound, the subtle, the challenging, and the triumphant. What does it mean to be remade? What is gained, and what is left behind? We welcome and encourage all submissions, regardless of whether they are directly related to the theme.
Please submit to our Connective Tissue Submission Google Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQz-q6GBMnOEeROyGrECAf1d94ttFBDbIIDD7YsXf0OvnDUw/viewform by Sunday, January 11th, 2026 at 11:59PM CT.
