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untethered is a Toronto-based literary publication aiming to unearth and unravel work from emerging and established writers and artists. untethered was co-created by three graduates of York University's Creative Writing program, Nicole Haldoupis, Sophie McCreesh and Stephanie McKechnie. Find our submission guidelines at www.alwaysuntethered.com/submissions

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04/08/2024

Missed our Vol.15 Virtual Launch Party? There and want to relive the magic? Either way, we've got you covered!

The recording of our live Virtual Launch Party on July 31 was JUST posted, so head on over to YouTube, our website, or follow the link in our bio to check it out!

The launch features readings from issue contributors Nhung An, Ronna Bloom, Brian Clark, Mark Foss, Christina Hennemann, Christine Higdon, Lisa Jones, Ripley Kemp, Alysha Mohamed, Lyz Pfister, Matthew Roy, Mahaila Smith, Anna Veprinska, and Yasmin Wooldridge!

Cover art by Cadence Dutchyn

03/08/2024

Are you a winner?!?! Announcing the winners of our Vol.15 Virtual Launch Party Raffle Draw!

Stephan S, Lisa J, Tracey B, Mahaila S, Matthew R, Mark F, Natalie H, Nhung A, Christine H, and Shannon L!

Don’t forget to check those email inboxes! First to respond gets their choice from 10 incredible prizes!

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who bought raffle tickets or donated prizes—we are so grateful for all your support!

31/07/2024

🥳 TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! 🥳 Cozy up on the couch or gather round the kitchen table, and join us @ 7:00pm EDT(5:00pm CST)! Registration is FREE!

This (did we mention, FREE?!) virtual launch party event features live and pre-recorded readings from 15 Vol.15 contributors, including Nhung An, Ronna Bloom, Brian Clark, Mark Foss, Francesca, Christina Hennemann, Christine Higdon, Lisa Jones, Ripley Kemp, Alysha Mohamed, Lyz Pfister, Matthew Roy, Mahaila Smith, Anna Veprinska, and Yasmin Wooldridge!

PLUS we have sales on the current issue ($18 +$4 shipping) and on BACK ISSUES ($8-$10, shipping included).

AND tickets for our highly-anticipated raffle draw are available to purchase until tomorrow (August 1) at midnight. With 10 awesome prizes up for grabs, you have a great chance of winning! (1 ticket for $2, 3 tickets for $5, and arm’s-length, aka 15 tickets, for $10).

Follow the link in our bio to register, or head to alwaysuntethered.com.

We can’t wait to see you soon!

30/07/2024

In 23 hours, we launch vol.15! Join us TOMORROW, July 31 at 7:00pm EST and celebrate the talented writers and poets who will be reading their work for you!

Registration is required! Head to the Virtual Launch Hub on our website (alwaysuntethered.com) or click the link in bio.

See you tomorrow!

30/07/2024

Our final raffle prize! Donated by Vol.15 contributor, Mahaila Smith, is a copy of their chapbooks Water-Kin (Metatron Press, 2024) and Enter the Hyperreal (above/ground press, 2024).

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website, alwaysuntethered.com or at the link in our bio.

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

29/07/2024

Help us celebrate the writers and poets in our 15th volume this Wednesday at 7:00pm EST!

Registration link here (or in bio): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqf-2hpzgtGdN7-p1QgbohU-ZD0kgZ2x3A #/registration

Please share and support these talented launch readers!

27/07/2024

Raffle prize: Our nonfiction editor, Conyer Clayton, has generously donated their poetry chapbook, Mitosis (In/Words Magazine and Press)!

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

27/07/2024

Not only are our litmag friends and contributors generous, our editors are too! Our fiction editor, Margo LaPierre, has donated her poetry chapbook In Violet (Anstruther Press) and her full-length poetry collection, Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes (Guernica Editions).

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

27/07/2024

Raffle Prize: Win a bundle of 3 back issues from us, untethered magazine! We've featured incredible writers, poets, and artists over the years, so this is your chance to get your hands on your choice of any 3 untethered issues!

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

27/07/2024

We're grateful for the continued support of our friends at The Fiddlehead! They've donated a one-year subscription for our raffle prize!

Have you registered for the Vol.15 launch yet? Register and get your raffle prize tickets at our Virtual Launch Hub (link bio)!

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

27/07/2024

Raffle prize alert: Our friends at flo. lit mag have generously donated a copy each of issues 04 & 05 (issues 01-03 are sold out!).

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

25/07/2024

Another Vol.15 contributor-donated raffle prize! A copy of Ronna Bloom's newest poetry compilation, A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, selected with an introduction by Phil Hall (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2023).

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

25/07/2024

Another amazing raffle prize: a one-year subscription to The Ampersand Review!

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

25/07/2024

We're also so grateful for our generous contributors, who have once again donated their precious books to the raffle!

RAFFLE PRIZE: a copy of Vol.15 contributor Christine Higdon's Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue (ECW Press, 2023)!

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

25/07/2024

untethered is so grateful for the generosity of our lit mag friends! We have another AWESOME collection of raffle prizes lined up for our Vol. 15 Virtual Launch Party on Wednesday, July 31 at 7pm EST!

The first: a one-year subscription to Arc Poetry Magazine!

Enter the Vol. 15 launch raffle for your chance to win!

Get your raffle tickets at the Vol. 15 Launch Hub on our website (link in bio).

1 ticket for $2
3 tickets for $5
Arm’s length (15 tickets) for $10

23/07/2024

We have 15 readers sharing their work at the Vol.15 Virtual Launch Party next week! Have you registered yet? Don't forget to register for your Zoom link!

Registration link in bio.

23/07/2024

We hope you'll join us and celebrate our fabulous readers who will be sharing their work at the Vol.15 Virtual Launch Party next week! All the info you need to know is on our Virtual Launch Hub on our website--including the registration link and available raffle prizes. Link in bio or head to alwaysuntethered.com.

22/07/2024

Vol. 15 launches in 10 DAYS and we would love to see your lovely faces there! You can find ALL the info you need to join us in celebrating our incredible Vol. 15 contributors at the Vol. 15 LAUNCH HUB on our website (link in bio), but here’s the essential info:

When: Wednesday, July 31 at 7PM EST on Zoom (REGISTER NOW! Registration link is on our Launch Hub and FB Event Page. Link in bio).

What: Live and pre-recorded readings from 15 of our Vol. 15 contributors, including Nhung An, Ronna Bloom, Brian Clark, Mark Foss, Francesca, Christina Hennemann, Christine Higdon, Lisa Jones, Ripley Kemp, Alysha Mohamed, Lyz Pfister, Matthew Roy, Mahaila Smith, Anna Veprinska, and Yasmin Wooldridge!

As always we have an exciting line-up of raffle prizes to be won (check out the Launch Hub to find out what could be yours! Buy your raffle tickets now! Link in bio). More prizes TBA this week!

Vol. 15 is currently on sale for $18 (+$4 shipping). Buy your copy before we run out! (Link in bio)

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19/07/2024

Join us Wednesday, July 31 @ 7:00pm EST on Zoom to celebrate the launch of our new issue, Vol.15!

REGISTER NOW (it's FREE): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqf-2hpzgtGdN7-p1QgbohU-ZD0kgZ2x3A

Cover art by Cadence Dutchyn.

We'll be launching our Virtual Launch Hub soon. So check back for the fantastic lineup of readers, raffle prizes, and more!

ORDER Vol.15 now! Link in bio. *limited print-run!

18/04/2024

VOL. 15 COVER REVEAL and PRE-ORDER!

We are thrilled to share the stunning cover of our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

Cover art by Cadence Dutchyn. .art

Vol.15 features new work by Nhung An, Katherine Barbour, V.C. Blackhouse, Ronna Bloom, Ash Caton, Brian Clark, Mark Foss, Francesca, A.N. Grace, Matthew Heiti, Christina Hennemann, Christine Higdon, Lisa Jones, Ripley Kemp, Alysha Mohamed, Lyz Pfister, Calum Robertson, Matthew Roy, Mahaila Smith, Anna Veprinska, Yasmin Wooldridge and Patrick Wright!

PRE-ORDER your copy of Vol. 15 today! Link in bio.

Stay tuned for details on the Vol. 15 virtual launch!

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16/04/2024

Meet Patrick Wright! Patrick's hybrid piece, “A Village Full of Woollen Things,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Patrick describes “A Village Full of Woollen Things” in 12 words or less:
“A Welsh village where all the residents are made of wool.”

Patrick Wright has a poetry collection, Full Sight of Her (Eyewear), which was nominated for the John Pollard Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Southword, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, Wasafiri and London Magazine. He has a second collection, Exit Strategy, which will be published by Broken Sleep Books (2025).

15/04/2024

Meet Yasmin Wooldridge! Yasmin's poems, “6:45 a.m.” and "Memori,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Yasmin describes “6:45 a.m.” and "Memori,” in 12 words or less:
“Grief juxtaposed between absence of life and presence in nature; fluidity of time within a memory.”

Yasmin Wooldridge is a creative bog-hag, primarily a poet, living on Treaty 4 Territory. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, she and her family lived there for 18 months, then they spent five years in Doha, Qatar. In her youth she and family travelled widely, giving her a great scope of experiences and knowledge. She inherited a curious, wandering spirit from her mother, and it is the elements of travel and grief that reflect in her work. She was a reader for the Jaipur Literature Festival Toronto 2020 and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Book Bytes series 2022, and has been published in [SPACE] Magazine.

12/04/2024

Meet Anna Veprinska! Anna's poem, “(O),” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Anna describes “(O)” in 12 words or less:
“Lost between homelands, negotiating the distance between history and memory.”

Anna Veprinska is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Sew with Butterflies (Steel Bananas, 2014); the chapbooks Stone Blossom (Anstruther Press, 2022) and Spirit-clenched (Gap Riot Press, 2020); and the monograph Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which received Honourable Mention in the Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She has a collection of poems forthcoming with the University of Calgary Press. Her poetry was shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence and was finalist for Best of the Net in 2022.

11/04/2024

Meet Mahaila Smith! Mahaila's poem, “I vowed to be of service to other beings,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15! .blaise

How Mahaila describes “I vowed to be of service to other beings” in 12 words or less:
“I see animals in everything and crochet little sweaters for the table.”

Mahaila Smith (any pronouns) is a young femme writer, living and working on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Ontario. They are one of the co-editors for The Sprawl Mag. They like learning theory and writing speculative poetry. Their debut chapbook, Claw Machine, was published by Anstruther Press in 2020. Their second chapbook, Water-Kin, was published by Metatron Press in 2024. You can find more of their work on their website: mahailasmith.ca

10/04/2024

Meet Matthew Roy! Matthew's fiction piece, “You Folks Ever Hear of Art Lieberman, Rodeo Star?” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Matthew describes “You Folks Ever Hear of Art Lieberman, Rodeo Star?” in 12 words or less:
“One more gig to go, if he can keep it together.”

Matthew Roy (he/him) recently moved from a small town to a big city, from a rambling farmhouse to a small apartment, and from a major corporation to an up-and-comer. He’s writing more. He’s making changes. He’s neck-deep in revisions on his first novel and banging away at his second. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Eternal Haunted Summer, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Showcase (Object & Idea), Twenty-two Twenty-eight, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, among others.

09/04/2024

Meet Calum Robertson! Calum's nonfiction piece, “Dirtdays of Dirtfag,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Calum describes “Dirtdays of Dirtfag” in 12 words or less:
“Try n dirtfag it for a day, if ya gotta.”

Calum Robertson, sometimes known as s*f, (fae/faer/faerself) is a full-time tea drinker, part-time forest cryptid from Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Treaty 7, Alberta, currently studying communications in Kitchener-Waterloo, Dish with One Spoon Treaty, Ontario, Canada, Turtle Island. The 2022 winner of the Barbara Schneider Writing Award in Communications, faer work focuses on sound studies, nature, q***r identities and Outsider art. Fae have written nonfiction articles for publications as diverse as university campus newspapers (the Gauntlet), the Christian Courier (community newspaper) and filling Station (experimental literature). Faer poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines both online and in print, including Canthius, nod, deathcap, the anti-Langurous Project, Lida Literary, Bourgeon, peculiar, Red Coyote, and Tofu Ink. Fae’d like to be reincarnated as a grouse, next time around. You can find faer on Instagram as , where fae typically post cups of tea half-drunk and books mostly read.

08/04/2024

Meet Lyz Pfister! Lyz's poem, “Nightcycling,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Lyz describes “Nightcycling” in 12 words or less:
“An icy road opens a door: a tire’s slip, a righted bike.”

Lyz Pfister is a writer and translator living in Berlin. She is the editor-in-chief emeritus of SAND journal, as well as the author of the blog Eat Me. Drink Me. Her original works and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Janus Literary Review, STILL, Glean and Graft, The Bastille, Counter Service and No Man’s Land, among others. She recently published her first collection of essays, Palate.

05/04/2024

Meet Alysha Mohamed! Alysha's poem, “Partition,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Alysha describes “Partition” in 12 words or less:
“Where love is political; when trauma trickles down generations.”

Alysha Mohamed is a passionate poet, playwright and journalist based in Calgary. She graduated from Queen’s University in 2022 with a BA (Honours) in English and Political Studies. Alysha made her official poetry debut with “Nanima” and “The Colonizer’s Nightmare” in Arc Poetry Magazine, and her articles have been published in outlets including CBC and Maclean’s. She loves poems that burn, heal and subvert all at once.

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untethered is a Toronto-based literary publication aiming to unearth and unravel work from emerging and established writers and artists. untethered was co-created by three graduates of York University's Creative Writing program, Nicole Haldoupis, Sophie McCreesh and Stephanie McKechnie. We are currently accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, art and those strange beings in between, through our email [email protected]. Find us at alwaysuntethered.com or on Instagram and Twitter @untetheredmag

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