Today in the PCRS is Meaghan Hackinen reading her CNF piece “Highway to Neverland” from untethered Vol. 2.1 and her poem “Bout Day” from Vol. 4.1

Meaghan Marie Hackinen is a writer and cyclist from Vancouver, BC. Her two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, and, most recently, from North Cape to Tarifa along some of Europe’s highest paved roads. Her writing explores relationships, experiences on the road, and encounters with wild places. Meaghan is the author of South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels (NeWest Press, 2019). She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and currently resides in Kelowna, BC. @meaghanhackinen

You can purchase a copy of Meaghan’s excellent book South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels (one of my favourite reads this past winter) on the NeWest Press site here.

The next installment of our Past Contributor Reading Series will begin next week so stay tuned and subscribe to our site or follow us on social media for all the latest things untethered.

Next up in the PCRS: Michael Russell reading “Ode to Grindr” originally published in untethered Vol. 4.2 and read from his debut chapbook Grindr Opera!

Michael Russell is a queer poet with BPD, Bipolar Disorder and massive jolts of anxiety. His first chapbook Grindr Opera was recently published by Frog Hollow Press in their Dis / Ability series. He lives in Toronto. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arc Poetry Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, Homology Lit, Plentitude among other places. He thinks you’re fantabulous. @michael.russell.poet

For more from Michael, grab the chapbook Grindr Opera, it’s available at the Frog Hollow Press online store here!

We also published Michael’s poem “Forbidden” in untethered Vol. 2.2 which has SOLD OUT!

Next up in our PCRS is Christine H. Tran reading excerpts from the poem “23 Smexy Reasons Why Listicles Are the Apotheosis of Literary Criticism” from untethered Vol. 4.2.

Christine H. Tran (19??-????) is an aspirational swamp banshee and vocational PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. In addition to untethered, Christine’s work has been published or is upcoming in FEEL WAYS, Half a Grapefruit, Release Any Words Stuck Inside You ll, The Temz Review and other places. Christine writes about girls, games, guitars, and the gunk between them. More cringe to be tweeted at @thechristinet