OPEN FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUMMER 2025.

The founders of Tethered Literary look forward to curating the second issue based on themes that organically rise from the submissions we receive.

The expected publication will be in Summer 2025. Creative pieces will be accepted for consideration by emailing your original work to tetheredliterary@gmail.com from March 15th -May 31st, 2025. More information on contribution guidelines can be found at https://www.tetheredliterary.com/submit .

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Because we want this journal to be home not only to writing that fits into conventional literary categories, but also to all manner of misfit, genre-defying work, creative writing submissions are classified only by word count. (We also welcome submissions of visual art—read on for specs.) Your submission can be as short as you want it to be—there is no minimum. We love poetry, flash, microlit. We want stories that need more space too, and will read anything that comes in under 10,000 words.

Send your previously unpublished work to: tetheredliterary@gmail.com

Attach the creative writing or hybrid work you would like us to consider in a single .docx, .doc, or .pdf file. Include the total word count of your submission in the subject line of your email, as well as the title(s) of your piece(s).You’re welcome to name or describe the genre(s) of your submission in your cover letter in any terms you like, or to leave it open.We know our subjective tastes reflect our own experiences in ways that can be difficult to see and account for, so we invite you to share anything that might help us to consciously cultivate a diversity of voices. You’re welcome to tell us anything you think we should know about you, your work, your positionality, your subject matter, or how any/all of these things relate.Please keep additional statements outside of your writing submission to 150 words.We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions. Just send us an email right away to withdraw any piece(s) that have been accepted elsewhere.

For all you visual creatives out there, your contributions are also welcome. Send in any visual artwork you would like us to consider in JPEG attachment(s) of under 10 MB. Please also include a brief artist statement describing the work (title, media/process, date of production). We welcome any expression of visual art.

Please don’t self-reject.