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In the acknowledgements section of Tolu Oloruntoba’s celebrated collection, The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest Press, 2021), he thanks American poet Kimiko Hahn for two profound words of advice: “risk clarity.” He says (rather modestly) that he knows he
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Ask me about my favourite record and I’ll tell you it’s The Nightfly
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I have to be careful as a reader of poetry to allow enough room for the diversity of voices and approaches. For instance, very early on I was struck, convinced, intoxicated with Jack Gilbert's work.
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During the second summer of the pandemic, I made my way from my apartment in Vancouver to my parents’ home in Saint John for an extended visit. I was thirty-six and burnt out: a high-intensity job, months of social isolation, the loss of a grandmother, and a year and a half on the other side of the country from family had taken their toll.
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Editorial Assistant Anastasios Mihalopoulos' Interview with 2025 Fiction Contest winner Ariadne Asho whose story "Faultline" was published in Issue 306 (Winter 2026)
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Ripples in air, soft and immense. Bells curl round a hillside to be cradled in an ear. Small animals worry their paws. A dazzle of piano, a glittery sheet of salt water. A cart lopes along a country road. Ghosts play ping-pong. Cascades from outer space. Some strange vessel encircles us in a scalded wood.
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Excerpt from Issue 306 (Winter 2026)
"The Bridge" by Kimberly Foulger
Content note: discusses child abuse.
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Excerpt from Issue 306 (Winter 2026)
"Faultline" by Ariadne Asho
Winner of The Fiddlehead's 2025 Fiction Contest
The car stopped at a field full of houses. Houses like autumn squash. Houses like spiral-rolled bales of hay.
Aoife scuffed across the earthy corduroy of the back seat, against wide wales that trapped within them cracker crumbs, cat-fur strands, rustcoloured pine needles. Her sister Lilou — reedy, blondie Lilou — gamboled out the other side, to face the field and a muddy ditch of clay and granite.
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An excerpt from Issue 306 (Winter 2026)
— Geordie Miller teaches at Mount Allison University. His coauthored long poem, Disharmonies (Hardscrabble Press, 2022), addresses the topic of revolutionary commitment in dialogue with Marilyn Lerch. He is currently completing a poetry manuscript with his sister, Kate Miller.
Love Poems for Landlords
by Geordie Miller
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Like most high school students in British Columbia, I had read Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill” in English class. I found the story so compelling that I looked up The Collected Short Stories.
