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We’re thrilled to announce that Ariadne Asho is the winner of our 2025 Fiction Contest and $2,000 prize! Her story, “Faultline,” will appear in the upcoming Winter issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 306).

Ariadne Asho grew up on Vancouver Island and now lives in Montreal. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, and her stories were longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize twice, in 2023 and 2025. She is currently working on a collection of short fiction.

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! 

We're excited to announce that the winner of our 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest and $2000 prize is Shelley Pacholok! Her essay "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor" is featured in the upcoming autumn issue of The Fiddlehead (no.305).

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 (call for submissions here) on being named finalists for the 20

We’re thrilled to celebrate the success of two contributors at the 2025 National Magazine Awards on June 13!

Congratulations to Tamas Dobozy, whose story “Tea with Interpol” (No. 298, Winter 2024) took home Gold in Fiction!

We're counting down the final days to our 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest deadline on June 2nd! In light of the impending Canada Post strike, we are asking writers who have mailed their submissions or planned to mail their submissions to reach out to us by fiddlehd@unb.ca.