Today in our PCRS, Victoria Mbabazi reading her poem “SHE DOESN’T COME BACK” from untethered vol. 5.1 

Victoria Mbabazi is a mental health major pursuing a double minor in creative writing and philosophy at University of Toronto. Her work can be found in The Puritan, CV2, Feels Zine, Bywords, untethered Magazine, and  Release Any Words Stuck Inside You Volume 2. Her poetry placed second in The Hart House Review contest and her work has been shortlisted in Plenitude’s Flash Fiction contest and long-listed in Room’s Poetry contest. She’ll be doing an MFA with a concentration in poetry at NYU in the fall and is currently working on a poetry collection. @victoria_mbabazi 

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Today in our PCRS, Victoria Mbabazi reading her poem "SHE DOESN'T COME BACK" from untethered Vol. 5.1. Victoria Mbabazi is a mental health major pursuing a double minor in creative writing and philosophy at University of Toronto. Her work can be found in The Puritan, CV2, Feels Zine, Bywords, untethered Magazine, and Release Any Words Stuck Inside You Volume 2. Her poetry placed second in The Hart House Review contest and her work has been shortlisted in Pentitiude's Flash Fiction Contest and long-listed in Room's Poetry Contest. She'll be doing an MFA with a concentration in poetry at NYU in the fall and is currently working on a poetry collection. @victoria_mbabazi You can read this amazing poem in the next post! If you missed this issue, you can still grab a copy on our site, link in bio.

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Read the poem below:

You can find read other amazing works by Victoria in Bywords here, and in The Puritan here.

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Be sure to check back tomorrow, when we will be featuring another one of my favourite poems we’ve had the opportunity to publish, from Arina Kharlamova, in our Past Contributor Reading Series!

Past Contributor Reading Series Part Two starts tomorrow! This week will be featuring fabulous readings from past untethered contributors Victoria Mbabazi, Arina Kharlamova, Joyce Chong, Amanda Jess, Maryam Gowralli and Jade Wallace. 

We hope you enjoyed Part One of the reading series as much as we did! We’re very excited for this next installment and we hope you tune in and enjoy!

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Wow! Wow! Wow! Submissions are officially closed and we could not be more impressed with how many submissions we received–the most EVER! We have over 1000 pieces to dig into in the coming weeks and we can’t wait! Thank you to everyone who sent us their work! We will be making our decisions by late August so stay tuned!