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Fiction: Laura Trunkey, Kirsten Donaghey, Ryan Frawley, Alex Leslie, and Michael Murphy. 

Poetry: Russell Thornton, Colleen Sanders, Patricia Young, Robyn Sarah, Lisa Martin-DeMoor, Shane Neilson, Tom Wayman, Susan Glickman, Eric Roy, Michael Blouin, David Zieroth, Marilyn Iwama, Louisa Howerow, Katerina Fretwell, Zoë Landale, Gerard Beirne, Eric Paul Shaffer, Kathy Mac, Leanne Averbach, and Stan Rogal. 

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Michael Thorpe, John H Cunningham, Karen Schindler, Steve Noyes, Nancy Richler, and Susan Haley. 
 

Fiction: Karen Malley, Mary Akers, Nicole Dixon, Alice Petersen, Lucy Policelli, and Steve Noyes.

Poetry: Shane Neilson, Myles Zacharias, Kerrin McCadden, David Barrick, Barry Dempster, Richard Lemm, Matthew Tierney, Michael Lista, Michael Penny, Alberto Ros, Gerald Hill, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Nicholas Bradley, Edward Gates, Micheline Maylor, Natalie Helberg, Nancy Anne Miller, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Miranda Hill, Phoebe Wray, Anis Shivani, John Mann, Daniel Langton, and Sam Cheuk.

Reviews: Ian Colford, M. Travis Lane, Shane Neilson, Steve Noyes, and Michael DeBeyer.

Fiction: Maureen Bilerman, Richard Simas, Lesley Buxton, Dave Margoshes, Lori Hahnel, John C. Goodman, and Dave Miller.

Poetry: Jamella Hagen, Shane Neilson, Susan Steudel, Tim Bowling, Katia Grubisic, Jim Johnstone, Gabe Foreman, Robert Colman, Regan Taylor, Cornelia Hoogland, Tiphanie Yanique, Shari Andrews, Samantha Bernstein, Andy Weaver, Johanna Skibsrud, Amy-Leah White, Kate Kennedy.

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Lynn Davies, Naomi K. Lewis, Steve Noyes, Nancy Richler, Adam Sol, and Jesse Fergusson.

Editorial: Ross Leckie, Roger Ploude, Michael Taylor, and James Langer.

Fiction: Andrew Daley, Julie Paul, Jared Young, Jason Markowsky, and Derek Hayes.

Poetry: Simon Armitage, Matt Rader, Carla Funk, Tom Wayman, Stephanie Yorke, Kristina Bresnen, David Martin, John Lofranco, Jennifer Houle, Melanie Boyd, Henry Beissel, Karen Hofmann, and Leif E. Vaage.

Reviews: Lynn Davies, Ruth Roach Pierson, Steve Noyes, Warren Heiti, and Nigel Thomas.

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Naomi K. Lewis, Jane Finlayson, Kathleen Brown, Christopher Kent, and Caitlin Hicks.

Poetry: Tim Bowling, John Reibetanz, Carmine Starnino, Barry Dempster, Iain Higgins, Valerie Stetson, Ron Charach, J. Mark Smith, Shane Neilson, Elizabeth Philips, Donna Kane, Dan Stryk, J. R. Toriseva, Mary Cameron, Page Richards, Carla Hartsfield, Rosemary Clewes, Adam Sol, and Eric Miller.

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Ruth Roach Pierson, Jesse Ferguson, Sheri Benning, Robert Priest, and Shane Neilson.

Editorial: Ross Leckie

Fiction: Margaret Sweatman, Kevin A. Couture, Nicholas Ruddock, Michael Bryson, Carol Bruneau, and Michael Rottman.

Poetry: Adam Dickinson, Nadine McInnis, Anne Shifrer, Tony DSouza, Andrew Sant, John Wall Barger, Andrea MacPherson, Ria Voros, Jannie Edwards, Elise Partridge, Maureen Hynes, Rachel Lebowitz, Michael Quilty, Peter Richardson, Stephanie Yorke, Desmond Graham, Shane Rhodes, Karen Enns, Amber Dawn Upfold, Chris Banks, Samantha Marcelo, Hillel Schwartz, Christopher A. Taylor, David Barrick, and Sachiko Murakami.

Reviews: Bill Bauer, M. Travis Lane, Helen Fogwill Porter,  Michael Lockett, and Robert Gibbs.

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Grant Buday, Robert James Hicks, Stephanie Coyne DeGhett, Alison Hack, Laura Boudreau, R. Rti, and JC Bellringer.

Poetry: Judith Krause, Jeanette Lynes, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Melissa Walker, Brad Buchanan, Laurence Hutchman, Michael W. Czuma, Adrienne Barrett, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Eric Millter, Andrew Titus, Ingrid Ruthig, Margaret Christakos, Arthur Bull, Jena Schmitt, and Lisa Martin-DeMoor.

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Dina Cox, Ian Colford, Warren Heiti, Ruth Roach Pierson, Ted Colson, and JC Bellringer. 

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Patricia Stone, Urs Frei, Jasmina Odor, and Garret Dwyer Joyce.

Poetry: Traci Elder O'Dea, Jan Conn, Jen Currin, Chris Hutchinson, Roger Nash, Eleonore Shönmaier, Antony Di Nardo, Micheal Blouin, Donna Kane, S.P. Zitner, Don McKay, R.M. Vaughan, Alpay Ulku, Paul C. Howell, Russel Thornton, Christine McPhee, Lee McCarthy Singleton, Derk Wynard, Lenna McLennan, Dave Cavanagh, Barbara Klar, and Zachariah Wells.

Reviews: Shane Neilson, Michael DeBeyer, Ian Colford, Ian LeTourneau, David Creelman, Sharon McCartney, and Michlle Ariss. 

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Michle Adams, Nikolijne Troubetzkoy, Neil Smith, and Christopher Coffey. 

Poetry: David Hickey, Michael E. Reynolds, Walter Bruno, Jeanette Lynes, Jan Zwicky, Jennifer Bronson, Debra Franke, Susan Gillis, Alexandre L. Amprimoz, Michael Trussler, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Lenora Steele, Alice Major, Joshua Auerbach, Cara Waterfall, Jean-Mark Sens, Troy Jollimore, Prairie Markussen, Carolyn Richardson, Rachel Lebowitz, Rebecca Laroche, Marilyn Lerch, Sam Cheuk, Nick Thran, Linda Besner, and Hillel Schwartz.

Out of Place: Marjorie Doyle. 

Reviews: Stewart Cole, Shane Neilson, M. Travis Lane, Warren Heiti, Shane Neilson, and Marc Thackray. 

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Tributes: Robert Gibbs, Fred Cogswell, Laurence Hutchman, Brian Bartlett, Robert Gibbs, and Donald B. Gammon.

Fiction: Emily White, Robert Lake, Eric Freeze, and Carole Langille. 

Poetry: Melanie Jasmine Grant, Ray Hsu, Peg Duthie, John Lofranco, Helen Guri, Sue Chenette, James Arthur, David Reibetanz, Erin Knight, Mike Barnes, Steven Price, Sandy Shreve, gillian harding-russell, Carol Was, Margaret A. Robinson, Erin Noteboom, Stan Dragland, Gerald Hill, and Bren Simmers.

Reviews: Lynn Davies, Patrick Warner, Shane Neilson, Michelle Ariss, Dee Horne, and Ross Leckie.

Editorial: Mark Anthony Jarman.

Fiction: Craig Davidson, Patricia Young, Gavin Babstock, Rochelle Vigurs, and Edward O'Connor. 

Poetry: Karen Solie, Antony Di Nardo, Ruth Roach Pierson, Hillel Schwartz, Susan Stenson, Stephanie Bolster, Tim Bowling, Brian Purdy, Eric Miller, Stephen Heighton, Jan Conn, Phillip Crymble, Naomi Louder, Sarah Feldman, Cathleen Hjalmarson, Kimberley-Blue Muncey, Jim Johnson, Kathy Mac, and Vaughan Chapman.

Reviews: Bill Bauer, Paula Thomas, Katia Grubisic, M. Travis Lane, Keri Huffman, M. Travis Lane, and Patrick Kavanagh.

Fiction: Martin Turenne, Margaret Sweatman, W. Mark Giles, David Swanson, S. Halldorson, Joy Waller, Mark Blagrave, and Sean Johnston.

Poetry: Sarah Vap, Christine Wiesenthal, Steven Heighton, Ander Monson, Mary Kathryn Arnold, John Reibetanz, Jen Hadfield, Carol Hobbs, Iain Higgins, George Sipos, Ian LeTourneau, Rosemary Clewes, Desmond Graham, Michael Quilty, Julia McCarthy, David Solway, and Liliane Welch.

Reviews: Anne Simpson, Katherine Miller, Paula Thomas, Richard Greene, and Sue Sinclair.

Editorial: Ross Leckie

Fiction: Gina Ochsner, Dave McIntyre, Tony Antoniades, and Patrick Francis.

Poetry: Anita Lahey, Nicholas Ruddock, Chris Jennings, Margaret Christakos, b. borkent, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Monika Lee, Steve McOrmond, Roger Nash, Jen Currin, John Donlan, Eric Ormsby, David Manicom, Carol L. MacKay, Sheri Benning, Roseanne S. Carrara, Lynda Monahan, Sara Cassidy, and Matthew Tierney.

Review: Lynn Davies, Shane Neilson, M. Travis Lane, Margo Wheaton, gillian harding-russell, and Lance Callahan.

Fiction: Ramona Dearing, Dawn Rae Downton, Leslie Timmins, Josée Lafrenière, Ken Rivard, and Anosh Irani.

Poetry: M. Travis Lane, Elizabeth Rhett Woods, Jennifer Still, Sue Wheeler, Richard Sanger, John Reibetanz, Eric Ormsby, Melissa Walker, Holly Luhning, Sue Sinclair, Jill MacLean, Gloe Cormie, Giovanni Malito, Andy Weaver, Esther Mazakian, Grant Sheppard, Catherine Owen, M.F. Tierney, and Mary Cameron.

In Place: Lynn Davies

Reviews: Thomas O'Grady, Kristel Thornell, David Creelman, R.M. Vaughan, Chris Pannell, Ian Colford, and M. Travis Lane. 

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Rosaria Campbell, Patricia Young, Lesley Millard, and Simon Fanning. 

Poetry: Chris Weagle, Karen Solie, Aengus MacIntosh, Kathy Mac, Erich Wolfgang Skwara, Barbara Simler, Robert Gibbs, Sarah Klassen, Leanne McIntosh, Brad Buchanan, Barry Butson, Maureen Bilerman, John Degen, Tanis Macdonald, Lisa Guenther, Zoë Landale, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Michael Aird, Stephen Pender, Degan Davis, Dieter Weslowski, Mark Callanan, M. E. Csamer, Valerie Voon, Dorothy Field, Aurian Haller, and Pablo Neruda.

Reviews: Margo Wheaton, Bill Bauer, M. Travis Lane, Sandra Barry, Ian Colford, and Kristel Thornell.

Fiction: Richard Cumyn, J.L. Lanaway, Debby Dobson, Nancy Mauro, Robert McGill, and Eva Stachniak. 

Poetry: Michael Kenyon, Leanne Averbach, Steve McOrmond, Kelly Parons, Kathryn Mockler, Katherine Cameron, Jennica Harper, Donna Kane, Tim Cassidi, Ursula Krechel, Günter Kunert, L.E. McCullough, Sean Horlor, Alison Pick, Robert Roberton, Laurence Hutchman, and Stan Rogal.

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Allan Briesmaster, Sue Sinclair, Anne Compton, and Lynn Davies. 

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Kelly Cooper, Patricia Young, Billie Livingston, and Laura Lush. 

Poetry: James Arthur, Anne Simpson, M. Travis Lane, Sue Sinclair, Leslie Ritchie, Thomas O'Grady, Eric Miller, Michael Reynolds, Brian Bartlett, John Reibetanz, Eric Tretheway, Carol Langille, Heather MacLeod, David Manicom, A.F. Moritz, Hillel Scwartz, Chris Jennings, Allan Garshowitz, Barry Dempster, J.C. Heathcote, Robert Price, Jim Redmond, David Rigsbee, Jennie Morrow, Amanda Hathaway Jernigan, Brian Wickers, and Margo Button. 

Out of Place: Barry Webster. 

Reviews: M. Travis Lane, Barbara Colebrook Peace, Sharon McCartney, and matt robinson. 

Fiction: Joanna Goodman, Will Harvey, Lee Henderson, and Liam Durcan.

Poetry: matt robinson, Richard Norman, Joseph Hutchison, Andrew Steeves, Gerard Donovan, Christoper Patton, Leanne McIntosh, Virgil Suarez, Degan Davis, Suzanne Hancock, Rosana Roth, Elana Wolff, Nancy Lee, Carla Drysdale, Beverley Bie, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Rawdon Tomlinson, Selwyn Pritchard, Diane Reid, Kenneth Sherman, Robert Moore, randy lundy, JC Wilcke, Howard Wright, Esther Mazakian, Sean Horlor, Aislinn Hunter, and Adam Sol.

Out of Place: Eric Miller.

Reviews: Brian Bartlett, E. Russell Smith, Lorna Dew, Sue MacLeod, Nancy Bauer, Lance Callahan, and David Solway. 

Fiction: Madeleine Thien, Richard Cumyn, and J.A. McCormack. 

Poetry: Eric Miller, Dorothy Trail Spiller, Marlene Cookshaw, Michelle Tracy, Mark Sinnett, S.D. Johnson, Tom Wayman, Bernice Friesen, Rob Filgate, Gillian Jerome, Marilyn Lerch, R.M. Vaughan, Shane Rhodes, helen zisimatos, Eugene Dubnov, Selwyn Pritchard, Christopher Weagle, Deanna Yonge, David Gravender, Erin Bidlake, randy lundy, Shane Book, Russell Thornton, Sandy Shreve, Steve Noyes, Diane Reid, Bill Tinley, Arthur Bull, Mark van Dam, Colin Carberry, Elizabeth Brewster, and Patricia McKenzie. 

Reviews: Ted Colson, Adam Dickinson, Michael DeBeyer, Ian Colford, Carol Malyon, and Barbara Colebrook Peace.

Newfoundland Issue

What is regional literature and why is it important to distinguish pieces of work based on their home? Regional literature refers to literature capturing features, such as characters, dialect, and culture, specific to a region. The 201st issue of The Fiddlehead is a collection of works by prominent Newfoundland writers. Editor Ross Leckie elucidates the importance of capturing literature through region in the issue’s editorial. All regions are unique in their own way. All have different cultures and histories distinctive from the rest of the provinces. As Ross Leckie points out, Newfoundland has “a unique culture, a geographical isolation, an historical experience quite separate from Canada’s, and an island mystique that gives its literature a special resonance.” The focus on Newfoundland literature, or lack thereof, is what propelled the issue itself. Newfoundland’s emerging literature, “remarkable for its diversity and excellence,” seemed to be overlooked by the rest of the country. The goal was to give it its own space to be prominently displayed and recognized.

This issue captures Newfoundland life and culture, while exhibiting the talent of Newfoundland writers whose work may not have anything to do with the region at all. Kenneth J. Harvey contributes with his work “An Argument with God,” a compelling story that explores a man’s struggle with finding faith after experiencing the excruciating loss of his wife. “The Whittler” by Lillianne Bouzane showcases how region can influence literature, as she tells the story of a tight-knit community undergoing the loss of three young men during a five-day long storm. Poetry and fiction works are gathered in this issue to create a regional reading experience that, as Ross Leckie puts it, “is by no means exhaustive.” It simply offers a glimpse into the discovery of the brilliance of emerging Newfoundland literature.

Bailey Noiles 
Intern, February 2022 

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Jane Finlayson, Madeleine Thien, Terence Young, and Larry Lynch. 

Poetry: Marlene Cookshaw, Eric Miller, Anne Simpson, Rebecca Campbell, Allan Cooper, John Terpstra, Ioana Ieronim, Tanya Kern, Howard Wright, Christopher Levenson, Karin M. Weber, Peter Gillis, Tony Steele, William Meyer, Jr., Ryan Knighton, Wendy Schrobilgen, Paul Vermeesrch, Aidan Rooney-Céspedes, Cellan Jay, Audrey Poetker-Thiessen, Lori Maleea Acker, Tammy Armstrong, Beth Goobie, Jean McNeil, matt robinson, Susanna Roxman, Alice Major, j.a. LoveGrove, G.P. Lainsbury, Glen Downie, Stephen Hines, and Monty Reid. 

Reviews: Tim Lilburn, Bill Bauer, A. F. Moritz, and Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Annabel Lyon, David W. Henderson, Brenda Lee Guest, and Chris Uren.

Poetry: Patrick Warner, Shaista Samreen Justin, Carol L. MacKay, Betty Cheriton, Julie Schroeder, Ian Gough, James K. Mossman, Ann Turkle, Kathy Sinclair, Adam Chiles, Jason Santerre, Chris Pannell, R.H. Schmitt, Lorette C. Thiessen, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Jennifer L. Salter, Darryl Berger, George Murray, Richard Stevenson, D.S. Martin, Degan Davis, Karen Davidson, Gordon Massman, Medrie Purdham, natalie stephens, Rebecca Fredrickson, Stephen Oliver, Catherine Owen, Hillel Schwartz, I.M. Chapman, and Mark Truscott.

Out of Place: Joan Barberis.

Reviews: Bill Bauer, Kent Thompson, Lisa Alward, Jeffery Donaldson, Dee Horne, and Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Faith Jones, Frances MacDonald, Karen Smythe, and Timothy Taylor.

Poetry: E. Alex Pierce, Marlene Cookshaw, Eric Miller, Russell Thornton, Thomas O'Grady, Deirdre Dwyer, Hamish Guthrie, Tanis MacDonald, Amber Hayward, Tony Steele, Brent MacLaine, Camille Martin, Michael McCarthy, Catherine Moss, Miranda Pearson, Gabriele Guenther, Kathleen Nicastro, Robert Moore, James Gurley, Dominique Russell, Jeanne Marie de Moissac, and M.V. Feehan.

Reviews: Norman Ravvin, Richard Vaughan, E.J. Keogh, Gwyneth Hoyle, and M. Travis Lane. 

Editorial: Ross Leckie.

Fiction: Urs Frei, Carol Malyon, Tilya Gallay Helfield, Lilian Nattel, Eva Stachniak, Kenneth Puddicombe, and Julie Crawford. 

Poetry: Julie Dennison, Alexandra Thurman, Margaret McLeod, Sue Sinclair, Tom Wayman, Alayna Munce, Ruth Mandel, Steve McOrmond, Anne Compton, David O'Meara, Florence Treadwell, J.M. Hull, Andrew Vaisius, Cheryl Mah, and Shawna Lemay.

Tribute: Fred Cogswell.

Reviews: Sue Sinclair, Ted Colson, Eric Tretheway, Barbara Colebrook Peace, Richard Vaughan, Ian Colford, and Ross Leckie.