Past Contributor Reading Series: Victoria Butler

Happy August folks!!

Today in final reading for Part Three of the PCRS, Victoria Butler reading her poems “August” (perfectly timed!) and “Confessional” from untethered vol. 3.1 

Victoria Butler is the Poet Laureate of Barrie, ON. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Northern Appeal, a not-for-profit literary journal that publishes artwork and writing by creatives in Simcoe County. She lives above a coffee shop with her cat, Zelda and her Springsteen record collection.

Read these beautiful pieces and watch the video below!

If you missed this issue, unfortunately we are SOLD OUT but you can read other excerpts from our “Bodies” issue here.

Big thank you to all of the readers who have been participating in the PCRS, and thanks to everyone for tuning in and watching and reading!

That’s a wrap on part three of the Past Contributor Reading Series, but don’t worry, we’ll be back soon with a brand new line up of amazing past untethered contributors. Stay tuned!

Past Contributor Reading Series: Christine Ottoni

Today in PCRS, Christine Ottoni reading an excerpt of her fiction piece “Ghost Letting”  from untethered vol. 3.2.  

Christine Ottoni is a writer living in Toronto. The story she reads from, “Ghost Letting,” first appeared in untethered Vol. 3.2, and is a cornerstone piece in her collection Cracker Jacks for Misfits, published in 2019 with Exile Editions. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph, where she is working on a novel. 

You can find Christine at christineottoni.com, on Twitter and Instagram, and buy the book, Cracker Jacks for Misfits, online from Exile Editions here.

Watch the video and read the FULL piece below!

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Today in the PCRS, Christine Ottoni reading an excerpt of her fiction piece “Ghost Letting”  from untethered vol. 3.2   Christine Ottoni is a writer living in Toronto. The story she reads from, “Ghost Letting,” first appeared in untethered Vol. 3.2, and is a cornerstone piece in her collection Cracker Jacks for Misfits, published in 2019 with Exile Editions. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph, where she is working on a novel.  You can find her at christineottoni.com or @chrissiottoni you can find her book, Cracker Jacks for Misfits on the Exile Editions site as well as at Indigo or Amazon. Read an extended excerpt from “Ghost Letting” in the next post and visit our website to read the piece in FULL in our latest PCRS entry! While you're there, why don’t you pick up a copy of this rad issue! Links in bio

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Check back tomorrow for a reading from Victoria Butler, editor of The Northern Appeal!

Past Contributor Reading Series: Trevor Abes

Today in PCRS, Trevor Abes reading his poem “Oh, Just Browsing”  from untethered vol. 2.1 

Trevor Abes is an artist from Toronto with a fondness for writing essays and poetry. He was part of the winning ensemble at the 2015 SLAMtario Spoken Word Festival, and competed in both the National Poetry Slam and the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word as part of the Toronto Poetry Slam team. His work has appeared in Torontoist, (parenthetical), untethered, Sewer Lid, Spacing Magazine, Descant Magazine, The Rusty Toque, The Theatre Reader, Mooney on Theatre, The Toronto Review of Books, Hart House Review, and Sequential: Canadian Comics News & Culture, among others. His first full-length collection of prose, The New Frontiers Of Conceptual Art, is available through trevorabes.com. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @TrevorAbes

Watch and read this piece below!

This issue is sold out but you can find excerpts of other work in it here.

Tomorrow we feature a prose reading from past contributor Christine Ottoni, so be sure to come back, because you don’t want to miss it!