The Fiddlehead is excited to announce the finalists of our 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest, judged by Nicole Breit! The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced in October and the winning essay will appear in the Autumn 2025 issue (305). Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the following fourteen finalists!
The Short List:
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt — "SabraChronicles"
Kimberly Fahner — "Searching for Maud"
Frances Figart — "Herb Doctor"
Millie Ford — "LinkedIN for Losers"
Kim Kathleen Gerobin — "Out the window, the storm spoke English"
Shana Hollowell — "Red Wings"
Jane Kirby — "XIV Temperance"
Karen Moore — "Blueprints: a rendering of us"
Trudy Morgan-Cole — "Granite Cliffs and Apple Blossoms"
Scott Olsen — "A Bill C-31 Divorce"
Shelley Pacholok — "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor"
Noah Shiverskikh — "When We Were Kids, Together"
Pamela van der Woude — "The Story of a StarBoy"
Julia Wright — "Distance"
Pre-order the Autumn issue now!
