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The Fiddlehead Turns 75 and We Want Your Help to Celebrate!

Posted on November 1, 2019
Logo for The Fiddlehead’s 75th year

The Fiddlehead is turning 75!

We are planning all kinds of celebratory events across the country! We are even publishing an extra issue—a special 75th anniversary issue of The Fiddlehead—curated by our advisory editors, with a focus on “looking forward” to the future of CanLit.

We want to include brief messages from YOU, our readers! Looking forward, what are your thoughts, ideas, hopes or dreams for The Fiddlehead or for CanLit? We’d be delighted to receive any kind of well wishes or celebratory notes you care to send!

An Interview with Susan Musgrave

Posted on February 14, 2020
Image of Susan Musgrave

Editorial Assistant Melissa Spohr interviewed Susan Musgrave about her creative process, the roles of emotion, dreams, unknowing, and the subconscious, and the poet’s relationship to the poem in its becoming and ongoing revision. Three of Susan Musgrave’s poems—"More Than Seeing," "What We Do,“ and "Life in the Uncontainable World"—will appear in the upcoming special 75th anniversary issue of The Fiddlehead that will be published in spring.

Photo credit: Regina Akhankina

The State of the Art

Posted on February 11, 2020
Image of Nancy Bauer

Recently I learned a new term, “art-washing.” It means that a real estate developer offers a piece of public art to a city government in exchange for its approving a variance in the building code. That happened in Fredericton a few months ago. The city council approved a many-storied condo building bound to spoil a lovely streetscape in the downtown. This comes on the heels of the destruction in Officers’ Square with the removal of many trees, the historic wall and fence, and the green lawn. Those who opposed this demolition were derisively called “The Against Everything Crowd.”

Interview with Sue Goyette

Posted on February 7, 2020
Photo of poet Sue Goyette

Editorial Assistant Douglas Walbourne-Gough interviewed Sue Goyette about emergence, vulnerability, and engagement in the practices of writing and reading poetry. An excerpt from Sue Goyette's book-length poem, Anthesis, will appear in the upcoming special 75th anniversary issue of The Fiddlehead that will be published in spring.

No. 282 (Winter 2020)

Posted on January 30, 2020

Introduction: Sue Sinclair

Creative Nonfiction: Sherry Coffey, paulo da costa

Fiction: Emily Bossé, Shaelin Bishop, Diane Carley, Shashi Bhat, Carmelinda Scian

Poetry: Dani Couture, Marika Prokosh, Curtis LeBlanc, Katie Jordan, Allison LaSorda, Jake Kennedy, John Kinsella, Kevin Spenst, Jennifer LoveGrove, Elena Johnson, John Steffler, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Sophie Crocker, Paul Vermeersch, Ojo Taiye, D.A. Lockhart

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