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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.

Fiction: Michael Byrnes, Heather Duff, Gunnar Benediktsson, Rod Schumacher, and Carol Bruneau.

Poetry: Chris Chambers, David Waltner-Toews, Degan Davis, J.E. Durrant, Erina Harris, Séamus Ò Ceallaigh, Kristin Lord, Steven Laird, Maureen Hynes, Mia Anderson, Lenora J. Steele, Patricia Abram, Andrew Steeves, J.D. Carpenter, David Helwig, Cara Chamberlain, Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, and Laura A. Wilder.

Review Articles: Peter Thomas, E. Elizabeth Rose, M. Travis Lane, and Kate Farrell. 

Fiction: Michael Kenyon, Annabel Lyon, Sarah Withrow, John Krisak, Ann Copeland, E. Ukrainetz, Christian Petersen, Stan Dragland, and Jean MacNeil.

Poetry:  John George Fraser, Maureen Harris, Brian Henderson, Walter McDonald, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Colin Morton, Amy Barratt, Margo Button, Deidre Dwyer, Mike Belyea, Hannah Main-van der Camp, Michael Londry, Edmond Chow, John Donlan, Marcus Peddle, Lee Elliott, Lorna Drew, Sue Nevill, and John Terpstra.

Review Articles: Sky Gilbert, Maria Kubacki, and Shao-Pin Luo. 

Fiction: Julie Roorda, Bill Gaston, Nancy Richler, Melissa Hardy, Irene Mock, and Anna Tuttle Villegas. 

Poetry: Terence Young, Carole Langille, Harold Rhenisch, Mary Cameron, Yiannis Ritsos, Rosemary Aubert, Joy Katz, Hilary Clark, Roo Borson, R.M. Vaughan, Rosemary Blake, Jay Schneiders, Randy Kay, Marlene Cookshaw, Barbara Folkart, and Andrew Gray.

Review Articles: Barbara Colebrook Peace, R.M. Vaughan, and Michelene Adams. 

Introduction: Robert Gibbs.

The 1940s and 1950s: Bliss Carman, Alfred G. Bailey, Lenore Pratt, Dorothy Roberts, Alfred W. Purdy, Alden Nowlan, Irving Layton, D. G. Jones, Milton Acorn, Miriam Waddington, Felix Anselm, Lawrence P. Spingarn, Susan Vinton, Ralph Gustafson, C. Frederick Boyle, and Milton Acorn. 

The 1960s: Fred Cogswell, Kay Smith, M. Travis Lane, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Milton Acorn, Alden Nowlan, Sanford Sternlicht, R. G. Everson, Michael Ondaatje, James Dougherty, John Gill, Alden Nowlan, Dorothy Fraser, Elizabeth Brewster, Alden Nowlan, and Joy Kogawa.

The 1970s: Kent Thompson, Pat Lowther, Joyce Carol Oates, Eugene McNamara, rienzi crusz, Alistair MacLeod, Ralph Gustafson, Alden Nowlan, Robert Kroestch, E. J. Carson, Don McKay, Tom Wayman, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Glover, Pier Giorgio DiCicco, David Waltner-Toews, David Romtvedt, Bronwen Wallace, Catherine M. Buckaway Theresa Kishkan, Bert Almon, and Erin Mouré.

The 1980s: Peter Thomas, William Bauer, Lela Parlow, M. Travis Lane, David Adams Richards, Allan Donaldson, Carol Shields, Robert Gibbs, Fred Cogswell, Raymond Souster, Walter McDonald, Steven Laird, George Elliott Clarke, Kirk Wirsig, Robert R. Ward, Fred Johnston, Nathan Cervo, and Carl Leggo.

The 1990s: Don McKay, Ann Copeland, R. B. Richards, Liliane Welch, Derk Wynand, Greg Hollingshead, George Thaniel, Anna Synenko, Tim Lilburn, John Steffler, Anne Simpson, Cellan Jay, Don Domanski, Eric Ormsby, Susan Downe, Kim Roberts, Carole Langille, Karen Connelly, Joyce Marshall, and Lynn Coady.

Afterword: Don McKay.

Editorial: Don McKay.

Out of Place: Brian Bartlett.

Poetry: Anna Mioduchowska, Sue Wheeler, Méira Cook, Russell Thornton, Elisabeth Harvor, David and Steven Brundage, David Brundage, Lorna Crozier, Eric Miller, Carmelita McGrath, Jennifer Footman, and Anna Synenko.

Review Articles: Dennison Berwick, John Donlan, Bonnie Ryan-Fisher, and David Rothenberg. 

Fiction: Paul Bowdring, Stephen Guppy, Sarah Louise, Janice Soderling, and Lynn Coady. 

Poetry: Andy Stubbs, Louise Fabiani, Gigi Marks, Mary di Michele, Ross Leckie, David Jacobs, Dominique Russel, Kathryn MacLean, Marta M. Gassler, Michael Londry, A.E. Steinmetz, Liliane Welch, Mark Sanders, Tom Henighan, and Rachel Rose. 

Review Articles: Tim Lilburn and Karen Connelly. 

Fiction: Hannah Landecker, Kenneth J. Harvey, B.N. Robinson, Pamela Donoghue, and Robert Prince.

Poetry: Roger Nash, Susan Glickman, Su Croll, Evelyn Hanoski, John Pass, Olga Costopoulos, Kim Roberts, Steven Heighton, Jon Papernick, Russell Smith, Rosemary Blake, Carol Langille, Robert B. Richards, Susan Goyette, Lynn Davies, Mark Frutkin, Kathy Mac, Tom Wayman, Andrew Wreggitt, Brett Hursey, Marilyn Gear Pilling, and Karen Connelly.

Review Articles: M. Travis Lane, Dennison Berwick, and Richard Stevenson. 

Fiction: Paula Butler, J.M. Hull, C.R. Crackel, André LaPalme, and A. Colin Wright.

Poetry: Don Domanski, Joan MacLeod, Brian Bartlett, J. Michael Yates, Stan Rogal, Matt Santateresa, Janet Madsen, Phyllis Gottlieb, Bill Foxcroft, Gigi Marks, and Henry Israeli.

Review Articles: Monty Reid, Don Hannah, and Séamus Ceallaigh.

In the Spring of 1993, The Fiddlehead launched their 175th issue that included the winners of the Better Homes & Gardens Contest. The title of the magazine designates a newly born, young being before its eventual sprouting. The Fiddlehead creates a space for writers, a place for open expression and creativity. What better theme to choose for a contest than home and gardens? Editor Don McKay expresses in his editorial: “It was both edifying and moving to find our dwellings and animal companions so finely thought of and reflected in words.” The works submitted imitate a theme of domesticity that reflects The Fiddlehead’s purpose in creating a sense of belonging for new and experienced writers from all over. Its pages create an atmosphere of domesticity for literature. A home if you will.  

The poetry contest winner, “House Hunting/Home Dreams” by Kelley Jo Burke, is split into two narratives. One reflects the narrator’s thought process while house hunting and the other seems to describe a dream inside a house. Its duplicity also separates the themes of the poem: place and space, safety and danger. The poem’s narrator articulates the idea of home as a space, it is more than just a place, a building. Rather, it is a space that comes alive with the lives of those living within. Fiction winner Kathryn Woodward contributes her story, “Breeding True,” that is separated in an episodic manner following the progression of the seasons. There’s a focus on wars and ghosts, and trees and apples. Also included are a few honorable mentions, notably poems by David J. Paul, Bernadette Rule and a few more. The collection of works published in the issue accentuates the diversity and creativity of writing even when confined within the box of a theme. 

Bailey Noiles 
Publishing Intern, March 2022

Fiction: Dwight Kostjuck, Allan Barr, Greg Hollingshead, John Timmins, Shawn Malley, and Carla Douglas.

Poetry: Brian Bartlett, Pat Jasper, M. Travis Lane, David Punter, Kenneth Pobo, Cornelia Hoogland, John Steffler, A.F. Moritz, Eugene McNamara, Keith Maillard, Cory Brown, and Lenora Jean Steele.

Out of Place: Andy Patton.

Review Articles: Charles Israel and Christopher Wiseman.

Fiction: Bryan Young, John Steffler, Stephanie Halldorson, and Brent White.

Non-Fiction: Martin Murie, Peri McQuay, and Brigid Grant. 

Poetry:  James Aitchison, David C. Carpenter, Cory Brown, Brian Bartlett, Tim Lilburn, Heather Spears, Diana Kiesners, Nicholas Rockel, Monty Reid, Tim Lilburn, Jody Didier, Sue Wheeler, Kristin Steege-Spatz, Maureen Harris, Fred Candelaria, Walter McDonald, Tom Wayman, Vivan Marple, David Ayer, Pamela J. Fulton, tristanne j. connolly, Barry Butson, Don Summerhayes, Carl Leggo, Ken Babstock, and T. Berto.

Review Articles: Andy Patton, John Donlan, and Sue Schenk.

Editorial: Don McKay.

Fiction: John Lavery, Linda McNutt, Mark Henderson, Warren Cariou, and Michael C. Kenyon.

Poetry: Barry Dempster, rienzi crusz, Gordon Meade, Richard M. Vaughan, Linda McNutt, George Thaniel, Leonard Neufeldt, Helen Humphreys, Joe Blades, Mark Henderson, Douglas Burnet Smith, Derk Wynand, Jim Nason, Betsy Struthers, Tom Lips, Allan Barr, Cory Brown, David P. Reiter, Barbara Slater, Darrell Dobson, Mark Sanders, Karen Connelly, and Carol Watersong.

Out of Place: James Buckwalter.

Editorial: Kent Thompson

Fiction: Lorna Jackson, Steven Heighton, Jake MacDonald, J. Mulrooney, and Nicholas Maes.

Poetry: Robert B. Richard, William Robertson, Gregory Betts, James Aitchison, Bruce Iserman, Elizabeth Harvor, Harold Rhensich, Ian Menzies, Lilane Welch, David Etheridge, and Roger Rinch.

Review Articles: Patricia Whitney and Diana Austin 

Fiction: Edith Pearlman, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Robert Hough, and Scott Mackay. 

Poetry: Judith Wright, W. Dale Nelson, Steven Smith, Beth Goobie, John Barton, Glen Sorestad, Robert Cooperman, Gordon Johnston, Alan R. Wilson, Colleen Gray, Thomas J. Condon, David J. Paul, Richard Lemm, Glenn Hayes, Wayne Keon, Carolyn Page, C.E. Hull, and Roy Zarucchi.

Out of Place: G.S. Giscombe.

Review Articles: Eric Thompson, Geoffrey Cook, Don Precosky, Rita Donovan, Theresia Quigley, and Elizabeth Tilley.

Editorial: Michael Taylor.

Fiction: Ann Copeland, Bill Gaston, Anne Slomka, Laurence de Looze, Susan Sonde, Sarah Louise, and Rai Berzins.

Poetry: Brian Burke, Steven Laird, Hillel Schwartz, Catherine Thys, Don Linehan, Elisabeth Harvor, George Whipple, Cory Brown, Naomi Spigle, Gail Fox, Moish Goldenberg, David Waltner-Toews, L. Cirino, Fritz Hamilton, dave margoshes, and Fred Cogswell.

Review Articles: Kent Thompson.

Fiction: Greg Hollingshead, Peter Stockland, Dan McIsaac, Sharon Pywell, and Kenneth Radu.

Poetry: Elizabeth Brewer, Kwame Dawes, Valerie Kline, Harold Rhensich, Gillian Norris Szanto, Cornelia C. Hornosty, John V. Hicks, Jamie Dopp, Charles Lillard, Mac McArthur, Ron Miles, Phyllis Rowan, Ian Menzies, Shari Andrews, and Uzo Esonwanne.

Interview: Claude Lebouthillier by Martine Jacquot.

Review Articles: M. Travis Lane, Geoffrey Cook, and Lorna Drew.

Fiction: Helen Weinzweig, Ruth Latta, John Webster, J.J. Steinfeld, and Scott Mackay. 

Poetry: M. Travis Lane, Kurt Skov-Nielsen, David Emonds, David Winwood, Allan Cooper, Wm. Meyer, J. Waddington, Bruce Iserman, Heather Prince, William B. Robertson, Walter McDonald, Joan Harmon, and Brian Bartlett.

Review Articles: M. Travis Lane, A.C. Morrell, Rita Donovan, and Eric Thompson. 

Poetry: Karen Connelly, Joanne Weber, Uzo Esonwanne, Michael Estok, Robert Hilles, Toni Sammons, Lora Berg, Ramona Dearing, Laurie Block, John Steffler, Alan R. Wilson, Robert Cooperman, Fritz Hamilton, Pascal Dennis, and K.L. Davidson

Fiction: S. Kerslake, Norene Smiley, Cyril Dabydeen, Bonnie Laing, and David Etheridge

Reviews: Margaret Harry, Robert Dole, Rita Donovan, Anthony Brennan, Harold Barratt, and Raymond E. Jones 

Fiction: Douglas Glover, Kwame Dawes, and Diane Schoemperlen

Poetry: LLoyd Abbey, Heather Cadsby, Edward Gates, Judith Krause, Lynda Cassels, Irmelind-Elizabeth Couto, Mary-Lynn Murphy, Sarah Klassen, John V. Hicks, Laurie Anne Whitt, Derek Robinson, Mike MacNeil, Beth Gray, Anne Swannell, Susan Sindall, Nancy Smith, James Warner, Luella Kerr, and W.J. Keith

Out of Place: Lesley Choyce

Review Articles: M. Travis Lane, Douglas Glover, A.C. Norrell, Steve Noyes, and William Connor

Fiction: Noel Hudson, C. A. Welldon, E. D. Kwapisz, Connie Barnes Rose, Adrian Belshaw, G. E. Campbell, and Justin Lewis.

Poetry: D. MacKinnon, Fred Johnston, Nathan Cervo, David Winwood, Robyn Supraner, Aaron Scneider, Jill Newman Solnicki, I. M. Steven, Michelene Adams, Timothy Muskat, and Steven Heighton.

Reviews: M. L. Scott, Anthony Boxell, Michael Estok, Richard Paul Knowles, Kathleen Tudor, and Gerald Noonan.

Out of Place: Shayne Morrow.

Fiction: Ray Cosseboom, Rita Donovan, Justin Lewis, Ruth Krahn, and Kenneth Fraser. 

Poetry: David I. Benson, John V. Hicks, Robert Foser, Carole Chambers, Lewis Home, Cynthia Badendyck, Tessa Ransford, Joan Harmon, John Ditsky, Robert Cooperman, Frank Kraft, William Robertson, Alison Reed, Gary Geddes, Karen Connelly, Eva Touster, Alfred Bailey, Patricia Young, Elizabeth Brewster, Vivian Marple, Nicholas Mason-Browne, Judith Harway, and Harold Rhenisch.

Reviews: Don Precosky, M. Travis Lane, Marianne Micros, Allison Mitcham, Margaret Harry, and H.W. Connor.