Thank you to everyone who submitted their work for consideration in vol.13!

We are so excited to read your work!

If your work is accepted, you will hear from us by July 2022.

Due to the incredible volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to contact those who haven’t been chosen for inclusion.

Thank you for your patience while we review submissions.

Today is the last day to submit your work for our upcoming issue, our first themed issue, vol. 13! Theme is “help”. DON’T LET PROCRASTINATION WIN!!

Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art and those strange beings in between TODAY!

Click here for submission guidelines.

VOL. 12 COVER REVEAL!

Cover art by Maia Stark

Vol. 12 features poems by Khaloud Al-Muttalibi, T. Best, McKenna James Boeckner, Kayleigh Cline, Lana Crossman, Sheri Doyle, Guy Elston, Rosa Fernandez, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Tea Gerbeza, Vera Hadzic, Wren Jones, Taidgh Lynch, S. Mahamud, Andrea Margaret Martineau, Jill Michelle, Pauline Peters, Lauren Prousky, Michael Russell, Dawn Steiner, Matthew Walsh, Fran Westwood, Toast Wong, and Christine Wu.

Order your copy of our limited print run, poetry special issue today! What are you waiting for? 

Stay tuned for details for the vol. 12 online launch!

untethered’s very first themed submission call wants your HELP-inspired manifestations.

Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual artwork and those strange beings in-between that explore the theme of HELP are welcomed from April 1 – May 15th.

We recently updated our submission guidelines. Please read them over here before you submit.

We can’t wait to read your work!

Meet Christine Wu! Christine’s poems, “At the Friendship Store,” “How to Speak Home,” and “Before Putting in an Offer on that Old House,” will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12.

How Christine describes “Before Putting an Offer in on That Old House” in 12 words or less:
“When house hunting becomes a grief exercise”

How Christine describes “How to Speak Home” in 12 words or less:
“Locating what gets lost in translation”

How Christine describes “At the Friendship Store” in 12 words or less:
“How to navigate the past by visiting a familiar, unfamiliar place”

Christine Wu is a Chinese-Canadian poet whose work has appeared in various publications including The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and Contemporary Verse 2. Originally from the West Coast, she now makes her home in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she is working on a full-length poetry collection.

Meet Toast Wong! Toast’s poems, “triptych to the dynamics of failure, 2nd ed.” and “for ml”, will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12.

How Toast describes these poems in 12 words or less:
“two eulogies: for a friend and a future”

Toast Wong is an activist, engineer and butch idiot living in Toronto, Ontario. Growing up on the Credit River, she writes about diaspora and gender, divorce and science with a lack of regard for her physical integrity. Sometimes, late at night, you can see her drive like an asshole in the west end.

Meet Fran Westwood! Fran’s poems, “Pacing,” “What I think and think of, drawing me to the edge,” and “On Forgiveness,” will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12. 

How Fran describes “Pacing” in 12 words or less:
“I speak the language / but have not arrived at healing. I no longer think that we arrive”

How Fran describes “What I think and think of, drawing me to the edge” in 12 words or less:
“That we will never find a house. A plot to fill the edges in. To root in. Real ground.”

How Fran describes “On Forgiveness” in 12 words or less:
“the endless muscle of water holding worlds / of hurt—I’ve always wanted to be held like this”

Fran Westwood is an emerging Canadian poet whose work was shortlisted for the Room 2020 poetry prize, nominated for a 2021 Best of the Net award, and has been published or is forthcoming in various journals. Fran writes, grows vegetables and works in mental health and addictions in Guelph, Ontario, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. You can find her on Instagram at @fran.westwood.

Meet Matthew Walsh! Matthew’s poem, “Sobriety For Me is Like San Francisco,” will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12!

How Matthew describes this poem in 12 words or less:
“I lost my Weldon Kees”

Matthew Walsh is a poet from Nova Scotia. Their first poetry book, These are not the potatoes of my youth, came out in 2019, followed by a chapbook from Anstruther Press in 2021. They are @croonjuice on Twitter.