The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2024 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, judged by D. M. Bradford, Colleen Coco Collins, and Meghan Kemp-Gee! The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced in April and the winning poem will appear in the Spring 2025 issue (304). Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the following fifteen finalists!
Contest finalists:
Daryl Bruce — "Ritual"
Simon Peter Eggertsen — "So Matthias and Hannah would know, my father sketches out their immediate ancestry, threads the space-time continuum"
Tori Gosse — "UNSINKABLE"
Nancy Holmes — "My Mother's Hair"
Diane Baker Mason — "Leavings"
Damen O'Brien — "A Field Study of War"
Salem Paige — "post-op"
Kyeren Regehr — "The Statuary"
Shelagh Rowan-Legg — "A Breakfast for Barbarians"
Nnadi Samuel — "Mud Secret"
s.j. Shalgaire — "Informed Consent"
Nicky Taylor — "Run"
Mary Trafford — "Today, he will go home"
Iheoma Uzomba — "Program to compute the Mass of Anguish in every Confessional Girl Poem with series up to n terms"
Christina Wells — "The ECG"
