The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal

07/01/2026

We’re excited to announce that Ariadne Asho is the winner of our 2025 Fiction Contest for her story “Faultline.” She will receive $2,000 in prize money, and her story will appear in the Winter 2026 issue of The Fiddlehead!

Keep an eye out for our Winter issue going live to read an excerpt from “Faultline.”

You can read judge Anuja Varghese’s editorial right now on our website: https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025-fiction-contest-winner

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.

Thank you again to judge Anuja Varghese and to everyone who entered the fiction contest!

05/01/2026

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. Come meet Colleen, hear her poetry, and listen to her answer some questions!

Colleen [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in poetry, songwriting, performance, and visual arts. Sorry About the Fire, a book of poems, was published in 2024 and she has since published the chapbook Radicant.

23/12/2025

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!

16/12/2025

This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/translator Forrest Gander ask us to Stop! Look! Listen! to Erin Robinsong’s Wet Dream:

https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop-look-listen-forrest-ganders-reading-recommendation

10/12/2025

Congratulations to our fifteen 2025 Fiction Contest finalists! Thank you to everyone who submitted; you made it a hard contest to judge! And lastly, thank you to our judge, Anuja Varghese!

The contest's winner will be announced in early January, so stay tuned to our socials!

Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025-fiction-contest-shortlist

09/12/2025

Stop! Look! Listen! to Issue 305 Contributor Michelle Spencer's Reading Recommendation, Linguaphile: A Language of Love by Julie Sedivy.

"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. Dots that you maybe didn’t even realize existed, let alone had an awareness that they could use an alignment, call for a needle and thread. There’s so much fixing, medicine we don’t know we need, and Julie Sedivy’s Linguaphile: A Language of Love was all of this to me."

https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop-look-listen-michelle-spencers-reading-recommendation

09/12/2025

We're thrilled to share that two essays from The Fiddlehead’s Autumn 2024 issue were named among the Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024 in The Best American Essays 2025!

Anca L. Szilágyi for “‘Apply a Little Sugar with a Feather’: A Cultural & Personal History of Marzipan”

Nancy Huggett for “I am a good mother. I am a bad mother. I am no mother at all.”

A huge congratulations to both authors! 🎉

01/12/2025

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!

https://thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest

30/11/2025

It is the final day to submit to Disability: The Revolution!

Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025

Revolution: from the old French revolution, originally referring to the motion of the stars. Later versions of the word in the 15th century played on this sense of cyclical revolving — in the changing of the seasons, but also — crucially — the revolving of the wheel.

For our Summer 2026 issue, The Fiddlehead seeks work from disabled writers on the theme of revolution. You can interpret the theme as broadly as you like. If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.

Send us your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and review pitches that call for change — change in the world we know and change in the world that might come to be.

The issue will be overseen by disabled author and activist Amanda Leduc, who will also serve as the fiction editor alongside poetry editor Phillip Crymble, nonfiction editor Therese Estacion, and reviews editors Grace R. Taylor and Christine Wu.

See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: https://thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

28/11/2025

The deadline for our special issue call Disability: The Revolution! is in two days! Don't miss your chance to submit!

Disability: The Revolution!

Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025

Revolution: from the old French revolution, originally referring to the motion of the stars. Later versions of the word in the 15th century played on this sense of cyclical revolving — in the changing of the seasons, but also — crucially — the revolving of the wheel.

For our Summer 2026 issue, The Fiddlehead seeks work from disabled writers on the theme of revolution. You can interpret the theme as broadly as you like. If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.

Send us your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and review pitches that call for change — change in the world we know and change in the world that might come to be.

The issue will be overseen by disabled author and activist Amanda Leduc, who will also serve as the fiction editor alongside poetry editor Phillip Crymble, nonfiction editor Therese Estacion, and reviews editors Grace R. Taylor and Christine Wu.

See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: https://thefiddlehead.ca/revolution