The Fiddlehead is excited to announce the finalists of our 2025 Poetry Contest, judged by Douglas Walbourne-Gough, T. Liem, and Bertrand Bickersteth! The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced in April and the winning essay will appear in the Spring 2026 issue (307). Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the following fifteen finalists!
The Short List:
Howard Anglin — "At the Whalesbone"
Avryl Bender — "The Descent"
Renato Gandia — "Litany for What I No Longer Believe In"
Alexander Hollenberg — "The Language of Algae"
Louie Leyson — "Punisher"
Jenny Maaketo — "Perseveration on the Circumference of a Circle"
Callista Markotich — "Tourist Trespass"
Sasha Pickering — "Fire Season"
Melanie Power — "Ode to the Bakeapple"
Melanie Power — "Those Girls Will Ruin Your Life"
Kandala Singh — "the river"
Gordon Taylor — "Richochet"
Gordon Taylor — "The the"
Shashank Tripathi — "the ache before grammar"
Anna Veprinska — "On Listening to AI Gwyneth Paltrow"
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