We are beyond excited to announce two new members of the untethered team: Hollay Ghadery and Conyer Clayton! Hollay and Conyer will respectively fill the roles of fiction and nonfiction editors for our upcoming issue, vol.14! A huge thank-you to both for joining us!
Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and magazines around the world. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in 2021. Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, is due out with Radiant Press in spring 2023 and her short-fiction collection, Widow Fantasies, is scheduled for release with Gordon Hill Press in 2024.
Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer, editor, musician and arts educator living on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land, cka Ottawa. Her multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, the climate crisis and gendered violence through a surrealist lens. She is the author of But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (A Feed Dog Book by Anvil Press, 2022), We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Guernica Editions, 2020, Winner of the Ottawa Book Award), and many chapbooks, one of which was a finalist for the 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award. She is the winner of the 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Prize and the 2017 Diana Brebner Prize. She is the social media assistant for Canthius, and a member of VII, an Ottawa-based poetry collective.
SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW, OCTOBER 15! Send your best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, visual art and those strange things in between until November 15. Hollay, Conyer and Elena can’t wait to read your work!
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