What's New
Tips for Avoiding Publishing Scams
Pinned article Posted on
Alert! The Fiddlehead and its submitters have been recent targets of various publishing scams. Please check out our tips to avoid these scams.
Stop! Look! Listen! Justin Ancheta’s Reading Recommendation
Posted on
What is our relationship to the land on which we live? What is our relationship to our family? I’ve reflected a lot about these questions in my writing. Many writers have and will continue to explore them, but one book in particular that left me dwelling on how I’ve lived with these questions is Blood Belies (Wolsack and Wynn, 2024) from poet Ellen Chiang-Richardson (who was also my mentor for the 2025 TWUC BIPOC Writers Connect conference).
Stop, Look, Listen: Tanis MacDonald’s Reading recommendations
Posted on
I’ve been reading a lot of contemporary sonnets and am a bit in love with their surprising manifestations, their intricate weaves, their speed and motion.
Features
Creative Nonfiction
Excerpt from "Clawed Back" by Patti-Kay Hamilton
Excerpt from Issue 309 (Autumn 2026)
"Clawed Back" by Patti-Kay Hamilton
Winner of the 2026 Creative Nonfiction Prize
Fiction
Excerpt from "Sundown" by Emma Gammans
Excerpt from Issue 309 (Autumn 2026)
"Sundown" by Emma Gammans
Content note: contains depictions of cognitive decline.
Poetry
Excerpt of "close/d" by Angelic Goldsky
Excerpt from Issue 309 (Autumn 2026)
"close/d" by Angelic Goldsky
Content note: includes queer slurs
"Ode to the Bakeapple" by Melanie Power
Posted on
"In Kelowna" by Vivek Sharma
Posted on
Stop! Look! Listen!
Stop! Look! Listen! Justin Ancheta’s Reading Recommendation
What is our relationship to the land on which we live? What is our relationship to our family? I’ve reflected a lot about these questions in my writing.
Interviews
An Interview with Melanie Power
Poetry Editor Chuqiao Yang's Interview with 2025 Poetry Contest winner Melanie Power whose poem "Ode to the Bakeapple" was publi
An Interview with Ariadne Asho
Posted on
An Interview with Kate Cayley
Posted on
An Interview with Shelley Pacholok
Posted on
An Interview with Danica Klewchuk
Posted on
