The Fiddlehead
@fiddlehd.bsky.social
The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
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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November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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.
thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...
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There is just one week until our Autumn Issue Launch! Don't forget to register by emailing thefiddlehead@gmail.com!
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There is just one week until our Autumn Issue Launch! Don't forget to register by emailing thefiddlehead@gmail.com!
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 year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
Submit your best poem for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and be published in The Fiddlehead! This year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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 year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
Submit your best poem for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and be published in The Fiddlehead! This year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
Out now on our website, Fiddlehead Editorial Assistant Caitlyn Sinclair's interview with Shelley Pacholok explores how form and tone engage with content in Pacholok's 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest winning story "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor."
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November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Out now on our website, Fiddlehead Editorial Assistant Caitlyn Sinclair's interview with Shelley Pacholok explores how form and tone engage with content in Pacholok's 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest winning story "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor."
thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...
thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...
Celebrate The Fiddlehead’s newest issue with a virtual launch!
Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter!
Nov. 19, 7pm AST
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link!
Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter!
Nov. 19, 7pm AST
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link!
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Celebrate The Fiddlehead’s newest issue with a virtual launch!
Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter!
Nov. 19, 7pm AST
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link!
Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter!
Nov. 19, 7pm AST
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link!
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Joining Amanda Leduc, Therese Estacion is our Creative Nonfiction Editor for the issue!
Check out the full call for submissions on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution (1/3)
Check out the full call for submissions on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution (1/3)
October 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Joining Amanda Leduc, Therese Estacion is our Creative Nonfiction Editor for the issue!
Check out the full call for submissions on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution (1/3)
Check out the full call for submissions on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution (1/3)
Our Autumn issue is now on its way to subscribers, featuring Summer Wishes (2023) by Ann Manuel on the cover.
Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305
Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our Autumn issue is now on its way to subscribers, featuring Summer Wishes (2023) by Ann Manuel on the cover.
Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305
Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Over the next couple of weeks to introduce them!
We are so excited to have disabled author and activist Amanda Leduc overseeing and serving as fiction editor for the issue! (1/4)
We are so excited to have disabled author and activist Amanda Leduc overseeing and serving as fiction editor for the issue! (1/4)
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Over the next couple of weeks to introduce them!
We are so excited to have disabled author and activist Amanda Leduc overseeing and serving as fiction editor for the issue! (1/4)
We are so excited to have disabled author and activist Amanda Leduc overseeing and serving as fiction editor for the issue! (1/4)
We're excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest is Shelley Pacholok for her essay "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor"! Keep an eye out for when our autumn issue goes live to read an excerpt from her essay!
See the full announcement on our website:
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See the full announcement on our website:
bit.ly/4obSKPU
October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We're excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest is Shelley Pacholok for her essay "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor"! Keep an eye out for when our autumn issue goes live to read an excerpt from her essay!
See the full announcement on our website:
bit.ly/4obSKPU
See the full announcement on our website:
bit.ly/4obSKPU
Congratulations to our fourteen 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest finalists! There was some stiff competition this year. Thank you to our judge Nicole Breit!
The contest's winner will be announced on October 10th!
Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2024...
The contest's winner will be announced on October 10th!
Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2024...
September 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Congratulations to our fourteen 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest finalists! There was some stiff competition this year. Thank you to our judge Nicole Breit!
The contest's winner will be announced on October 10th!
Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2024...
The contest's winner will be announced on October 10th!
Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2024...
Disability: The Revolution!
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
September 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Disability: The Revolution!
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
NOW OPEN: 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 year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
Submit your best poem for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and be published in The Fiddlehead! This year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
September 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
NOW OPEN: 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 year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
Submit your best poem for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and be published in The Fiddlehead! This year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
Our third and final 304 contributor reading at our Summer Issue Launch at the Fredericton Public Library is Léa Taranto! Léa will be reading from her story "Dear Great Uncle John."
Don't forget to register for the Zoom link if you are planning on attending online!
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Don't forget to register for the Zoom link if you are planning on attending online!
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September 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Our third and final 304 contributor reading at our Summer Issue Launch at the Fredericton Public Library is Léa Taranto! Léa will be reading from her story "Dear Great Uncle John."
Don't forget to register for the Zoom link if you are planning on attending online!
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Don't forget to register for the Zoom link if you are planning on attending online!
www.facebook.com/share/18pba8...
In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Lise Betteridge shares her reading recommendation: What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
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Join us on Saturday at our Summer Issue Launch Party to listen to Lise Betteridge read from her story "Among the Shards" from Issue 304.
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Join us on Saturday at our Summer Issue Launch Party to listen to Lise Betteridge read from her story "Among the Shards" from Issue 304.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Lise Betteridge shares her reading recommendation: What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...
Join us on Saturday at our Summer Issue Launch Party to listen to Lise Betteridge read from her story "Among the Shards" from Issue 304.
thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...
Join us on Saturday at our Summer Issue Launch Party to listen to Lise Betteridge read from her story "Among the Shards" from Issue 304.
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to congratulate three former contributors to The Fiddlehead — Kirti Bhadresa, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and Ian Williams — and, Amanda Leduc, the guest editor of our Summer 2026 Disability-Themed Issue on being named finalists for the 2025 Giller Prize!
September 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to congratulate three former contributors to The Fiddlehead — Kirti Bhadresa, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and Ian Williams — and, Amanda Leduc, the guest editor of our Summer 2026 Disability-Themed Issue on being named finalists for the 2025 Giller Prize!
Join us in Fredericton for a creative writing workshop that explores writing in conversation with an artifact. Bring along something that sparks memory, curiosity, or meaning (a text, lyric, image, everyday object, etc.) and see what unfolds on the page!
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com to register!
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com to register!
September 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Join us in Fredericton for a creative writing workshop that explores writing in conversation with an artifact. Bring along something that sparks memory, curiosity, or meaning (a text, lyric, image, everyday object, etc.) and see what unfolds on the page!
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com to register!
Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com to register!
Don't forget to join us for the launch of The Fiddlehead’s Special Creative Nonfiction Issue!
Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30–3 PM (AT)
Fredericton Public Library & Online via Zoom
Visit thefiddlehead.ca/304-launch-p...
Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30–3 PM (AT)
Fredericton Public Library & Online via Zoom
Visit thefiddlehead.ca/304-launch-p...
September 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Don't forget to join us for the launch of The Fiddlehead’s Special Creative Nonfiction Issue!
Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30–3 PM (AT)
Fredericton Public Library & Online via Zoom
Visit thefiddlehead.ca/304-launch-p...
Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30–3 PM (AT)
Fredericton Public Library & Online via Zoom
Visit thefiddlehead.ca/304-launch-p...
It's the final day to submit to our fiction contest!
Don't miss your chance to send us your work and win $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead!
Submission guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
#callforsubmissions #fictioncontest
Don't miss your chance to send us your work and win $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead!
Submission guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
#callforsubmissions #fictioncontest
September 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It's the final day to submit to our fiction contest!
Don't miss your chance to send us your work and win $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead!
Submission guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
#callforsubmissions #fictioncontest
Don't miss your chance to send us your work and win $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead!
Submission guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
#callforsubmissions #fictioncontest
Fiction Writers!
The deadline to enter this year’s fiction contest is days away! Don’t forget to polish up your pieces and submit by Tuesday at midnight!
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
The deadline to enter this year’s fiction contest is days away! Don’t forget to polish up your pieces and submit by Tuesday at midnight!
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
August 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Fiction Writers!
The deadline to enter this year’s fiction contest is days away! Don’t forget to polish up your pieces and submit by Tuesday at midnight!
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
The deadline to enter this year’s fiction contest is days away! Don’t forget to polish up your pieces and submit by Tuesday at midnight!
More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
If you're near Fredericton this weekend, don’t miss this Emancipation Day reading at the Fredericton Region Museum! Saturday, Aug 30, 1–3 PM!
August 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If you're near Fredericton this weekend, don’t miss this Emancipation Day reading at the Fredericton Region Museum! Saturday, Aug 30, 1–3 PM!
There is exactly one week left to submit to our 2025 Fiction Contest! Don't miss the deadline!
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
August 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There is exactly one week left to submit to our 2025 Fiction Contest! Don't miss the deadline!
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
As we near the end of #WomenInTranslationMonth, Issue 304 contributor Léa Taranto recommends The Lantern and the Night Moths, a collection of poems translated from their original Chinese by @yilinwriter.bsky.social .
Read the recommendation here:
thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...
Read the recommendation here:
thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...
August 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As we near the end of #WomenInTranslationMonth, Issue 304 contributor Léa Taranto recommends The Lantern and the Night Moths, a collection of poems translated from their original Chinese by @yilinwriter.bsky.social .
Read the recommendation here:
thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...
Read the recommendation here:
thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...
Nancy Hui Sulaiman sat down with our editorial assistant Michael Yvon Robichaud to discuss form and writing about grief.
Nancy Hui Sulaiman's story "The Impact of a Father’s Terminal Cancer Diagnosis" was published in Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025)
thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...
Nancy Hui Sulaiman's story "The Impact of a Father’s Terminal Cancer Diagnosis" was published in Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025)
thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...
August 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Nancy Hui Sulaiman sat down with our editorial assistant Michael Yvon Robichaud to discuss form and writing about grief.
Nancy Hui Sulaiman's story "The Impact of a Father’s Terminal Cancer Diagnosis" was published in Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025)
thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...
Nancy Hui Sulaiman's story "The Impact of a Father’s Terminal Cancer Diagnosis" was published in Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025)
thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...
Can you believe our 2025 Fiction Contest closes in less than a month?! Don't miss your chance to submit!
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
August 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Can you believe our 2025 Fiction Contest closes in less than a month?! Don't miss your chance to submit!
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...