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The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal

Campus House, 11 Garland Court PO Box 4400, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, E3B 5A3 The Fiddlehead was first established in 1945.

What began as a mimeographed 8-page journal stapled together by Alfred Bailey is now a veritable institution of literary culture in Canada. For the last 65 years, The Fiddlehead has continually upheld its mandate to publish accomplished poetry, short fiction, and Canadian literature reviews; to discover and promote new writing talent; to represent the Atlantic region's lively cultural and literary

diversity; and to place the best of new and established Canadian writing in an international context. To quote John Metcalf, “The Fiddlehead was, and is, an essential part of Canada’s literary life. Its editors have always taken seriously their responsibility to seek out and encourage new young writers and give them a hearing in the company of their elders.”

11/07/2025

Congratulations, Sheila!

Read Sheila Martineau's essay, "In The Dying Room", now published on the CNFC website! https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/2025-2nd-place-winner/

08/07/2025

Miranda Ryan won third place in the CNFC-The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal CNF contest this year. Read her essay, "How to Befriend a Crow", now published on the CNFC website: https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/2025-3rd-place-winner/

03/07/2025

13 Cedars presents Everyone’s a Blob, an exhibition by Kathryn Mockler and David Poolman, opening Saturday, July 19 from 1 to 4 p.m., with a reading by Kathryn Mockler at 2 p.m.

Kathryn Mockler is the author of the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023). She co-edited the print anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020) and runs the literary newsletter Send My Love to Anyone.

David Poolman is an artist working in drawing, print, sound, and video. Since 2015 Poolman has worked with artist Jeremy Drummond as Never Met a Stranger, a publisher of vernacular arts and culture that collectively explore landscape and culture throughout central Appalachia and the rural North American south.

13 Cedars is a project space located rurally in Rowley, New Brunswick, between the city of Saint John and the oceanside village of St. Martins. The space is housed in a small barn, refurbished between 2023-2025.

02/07/2025

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen!, Issue 303 contributor Lena Palacios has written a beautiful introduction and tribute to poet Wanda Coleman.

"While Wanda is living it up in the "afterdeath," I am praying at my ancestral Indigenous-Chicanx altar to aspire to someone who, in Hayes' words, is a "great poet, a real in-the-flesh, flesh-eating poet": a spiller of ink who is fierce, funny, relentless, uncompromising, unpretentious, and "I will go to blows" mean.... Coleman was a code-switcher, code-ditcher, and shape-shifter who refused to conform to middle-class respectability. She was a working-class, Black single mother who struggled to make a living while writing irreverently about the daily grind of life."

Read the whole piece here:
https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop-look-listen-lena-palacios-reading-listening-recommendation

25/06/2025

Stop! Look! Listen! this week to Issue 303 contributor Alice White's reading recommendation, Deluge by Leila Chatti.

"The book’s urgency caught me immediately. It felt like its poems were written close to the veil between worlds, written because they had to be."

https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop-look-listen-alice-whites-reading-recommendation

18/06/2025

Our 2025 Fiction Contest is now open for submissions!

This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.

Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: https://thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fiction
Submit: https://thefiddlehead.submittable.com/submit/328822/2025-fiction-contest

Magazines Canada

16/06/2025

We’re thrilled to celebrate the success of two contributors at the 2025 National Magazine Awards:

Congratulations to Tamas Dobozy, whose story “Tea with Interpol” (No. 298, Winter 2024) took home Gold in Fiction!

Congratulations to Adele Barclay, whose essay “Cobra Blue Mustang Strat” (No. 299, Spring 2024) won Gold in Columns and Essays!

https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025-national-magazine-awards-winners

10/06/2025

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Issue 303 contributor Lynn Easton recommends Bren Simmer's poetry collection The Work.

"On the simple front cover, all vowels are erased, giving an immediate sense of disconnection, absence, and loss before you open the first page. Brilliant."

Head the full recommendation here: https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop-look-listen-lynn-eastons-reading-recommendation

09/06/2025

Tomorrow!

We can’t wait to see the first-place piece by Karen Moore published in our upcoming special creative nonfiction issue, releasing next month!

Join us next week for readings by our contest winners! Register here: https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/

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