Welcome to Tether's End

Who We Are

Tether's End is an online literary magazine dedicated to publishing prose, poetry, creative non-fiction and art + photography. We want to uplift new and established writers from all backgrounds. Send us your voice-driven, unforgettable work; your stories that get under our skin - visit our submissions page for more guidelines or read our masthead to find out more about what we're looking for.

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'Tether's End?'

A magazine solely for those at the end of their tether? We're a-frayed knot, though we may be at the end of ours...

Our name comes from a handwritten sign which hangs over a small corner of a bungalow garage in East Yorkshire. We want to see writing as eclectic as its contents.

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The end of one's tether (chiefly British, informal): a state in which one is not able to deal with a problem, difficult situation, etc., any longer. "I'm at the end of my tether."

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Masthead

Lydia Waites

Editor-in-Chief / Fiction Editor

Lydia is a writer and Creative Writing PhD student based in East Yorkshire. Her work has appeared in Door Is A Jar, The Abandoned Playground, and FEED.

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Short stories and literary fiction are her area. Her favourite writers include Sara Baume and Ali Smith, and favourite poets include Caroline Bird and Hera Lindsay Bird.

Samuel McDonald

Poetry Editor

Sam is a poet and MA Creative Writing graduate based in Cambridge. His work has appeared in the San Antonio Review, The Raven Review, and The Dead Magpie.

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He is particularly interested in visual and object poems, and is an avid reader of Poem Atlas.

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Davina Kaur

Non-Fiction Editor

Davina is a writer and an English Graduate from the University of Lincoln. Her work has been published in Litgleam, Second Revolution Literary Magazine and Trill Magazine. You'll find her researching different True Crimes or Paranormal stories and writing about them on her blog Words by Davina. She watches a lot of horror films 'just to feel something.' 

She specialises in Non-Fiction, and enjoys articles that are personal to the writer. The more moving and eclectic, the better.