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The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal. Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025! https://thefiddlehead.ca
Congratulations on 35 years, Geist! πβ¨ Also, welcome to Bluesky!
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The album cover of Sally Shapiro's Ready to Live a Lie which features a close up picture of a blue eye with a little blonde hair over it.
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carl Phillips will be gracing the pages of Issue 306 (Winter 2026) of The Fiddlehead. Stop! Look! Listen! this week to his short and sweet listening recommendation!
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To attend online, email thefiddlehead@gmail.com
with your name for the Zoom link.
The event is free, open to all, and includes ASL interpretation. Funded in part by the Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Culture NB, and UNB.
It's time to celebrate the release of The Fiddleheadβs Winter issue!
Join us Sat, Feb 7, 2β3 PM (AT), in person at the Fredericton Public Library or online via Zoom for readings by Ariadne Asho (our 2025 Fiction Contest winner!), John McNeil, and JosΓ© Teodoro.
@johnmcneil.bsky.social
Ariadne Asho grew up on Vancouver Island and now lives in Montreal. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, and her stories were longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize twice, in 2023 and 2025. She is currently working on a collection of short fiction.
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Weβre excited to announce Ariadne Asho as the winner of our 2025 Fiction Contest for her story βFaultline.β It will appear in the Winter 2026 issue, coming soon!
Read judge Anuja Vargheseβs editorial now: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025...
Thanks to @anuja-v.bsky.social and to everyone who entered!
UNB's Department of English presents a public reading by Colleen Coco Collins, UNB Writer-in-Residence for Winter 2026!
WHEN: 7 pm, Wednesday, January 7th
WHERE: The Beaverbrook Room, Harriet Irving Library, (4th floor)
This event is free to attend and open to the public.
A graphic reading Happy Holidays. Wishing you time to read and time to rest. Our office will be closed from December 24 to January 4 inclusive.
The Fiddlehead's office will be closed starting tomorrow until January 4th. We would like to thank all our contributors and readers for another amazing year!
23.12.2025 17:36 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0We look forward to seeing it in print, Julia!
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The cover of Erin Robinsong's Wet Dream
This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/translator Forrest Gander ask us to Stop! Look! Listen! to Erin Robinsongβs Wet Dream:
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A purple graphic for The Fiddleheadβs 2025 Fiction Contest. From top to bottom the graphic says: Spin the tale only you can tell. Enter our 2025 Fiction Contest. Deadline September 2, 2025! Enter via Submittable. Judged by Anuja Varghese. $2000 Prize plus publication. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/contest/fiction or email fiddlehd@unb.ca. In the background is a picture of loop of purple rope and in the lower right corner is a picture of Anuja Varghese.
Congratulations to our fifteen 2025 Fiction Contest finalists! Thank you to everyone who submitted! And lastly, thank you to our judge, Anuja Varghese!
The contest's winner will be announced in early January!
Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025...
The cover of Linguaphile: A Language of Love by Julie Sedivy
Stop!Look!Listen! to Issue 305 Contributor Michelle Spencer's Reading Recommendation
"There should be a word for books that show up in your life when you need them. Books which obliterate fears or seemingly by magic connect some of the disparate dots of a lifetime"
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A big congratulations to you, Anca!
09.12.2025 13:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Congratulations, Nancy! Itβs well-earned recognition!
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We're thrilled to share that two essays from The Fiddleheadβs Autumn 2024 issue were named among the Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024 in The Best American Essays 2025!
A big congratulations to @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social &
@nancyhuggett.bsky.social
Best American Essays 2025 and The Fiddlehead Autumn 2024 sit side by side on a gray sofa, against a pillow that is a soft yellow, blue, white, and pink.
The two volumes open to show the title of my essay and its first line, "Let's talk about destruction, sugar, memory" and the index showing my name among other notable essays.
Iβm very happy my long essay ββApply a Little Sugar with a Featherβ is a notable essay in Best American Essays 2025. Many thanks to @rowanmcc1.bsky.social and @fiddlehd.bsky.social for all that you do!
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The graphic for The Fiddleheadβs 2025 Poetry Contest. The graphic reads: Turn over a new stanza. Enter our 2025 Poetry Contest. Deadline: December 1 2025. Enter via submittable. $2000 Prize plus publication. Judged by Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
It's the very last day to submit to our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem!
Submit or post your submission by 11:59 pm Pacific Time for a chance to won $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead!
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
#poetrycontest #poetry #callforsubmissions #canlit
The deadline for our special issue call Disability: The Revolution! is in two days! Don't miss your chance to submit!
28.11.2025 15:28 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0We're always happy to be on this list! The Fiddlehead is open to excellent writing from both emerging and established authors. Canadian writers, check out our general submissions when they open on January 1st!
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The Silent Planet This is a world of hope unspoken. The heart's canals sink deep within the tunnels of a silver mine. Emotions etched in stone. Bodies always seem to tremble, stall. Waiting on a sudden spill, a waterfall of silver fire hollowing the fragile bones. A stoic planet, this silence of defeat. Expectations echo, dwindle down to muffled sounds of grief. Pebbles rolling off the edge of a cliff.
Barry Dempster, RIP
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A photo of my poem βI Wanted to Touch Your Shadowβ
My poem βI Wanted to Touch Your Shadowβ is in the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social
27.11.2025 18:51 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Only TWO more weekends to submit to next summer's special disability issue!
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Help us celebrate our 50th Anniversary!
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Working my way through the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social and taking my time because SO MANY GOOD WORDS! New-to-me poet Megan Barnet is living in my brain/heart right now. β..the clock / on the pallid wall continues to hack at time / with its arrhythmic arm, all of us lurching forward β¦β
18.11.2025 19:02 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0There are less than two weeks until the deadline for our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize! Don't miss out on your chance to submit!
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Tnrilled to be included in issue no.305 @fiddlehd.bsky.social Many thanks to @saleema.bsky.social for all her kind and thoughtful edits. There are so many great contributions in this issue, including 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Shelley Pacholok.
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A photo of Kate Cayley
New this week on the website: editorial assistant Sophia T. R. Godsoe interviews Kate Cayley, whose story "Certainty" was published in Issue 305 (Autumn 2025) on portraying complex relationships, writing narrators that a reader can both sit with and judge, and more.
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The graphic for The Fiddlehead's Virtual Launch party on Wednesday November 10 at 7 PM AST via Zoom. Featuring readings from Shelley Pacholok, winner of our 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest plus autumn contributors A E Best and Will Richter. To register, email thefiddlehead@gmail.com
There is just one week until our Autumn Issue Launch! Don't forget to register by emailing thefiddlehead@gmail.com!
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Indelible Radiance Translation of Jeannette Lozano Clariond It is perfectly itself, the tree fixed in your eyes. Poplar and blood. An image beaming its silver undersides: indelible radiance seeping out through little holes in the tracery. Leaking across the lake, the image advances toward you. But what remains beyond reach is the Word.
One of the three Forrest Gander translations featured in the autumn issue of The Fiddlehead.
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The graphic for The Fiddleheadβs 2025 Poetry Contest. The graphic reads: Turn over a new stanza. Enter our 2025 Poetry Contest. Deadline: December 1 2025. Enter via submittable. $2000 Prize plus publication. Judged by Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
There is less than one month to enter our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem!
Submit your best poem for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and be published in The Fiddlehead! This yearβs judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
