We’re thrilled to announce that Melanie Power is the winner of our 2025 Poetry Contest and $2 000 prize! Her poem, “Ode to the Bakeapple,” will appear in the upcoming Spring issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 307).
Melanie Power is a Montreal-based poet from St. John’s. Her debut, Full Moon of Afraid and Craving, was published in 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in oral history and creative writing at Concordia University.
A huge thank you to everyone who entered our Poetry Contest, and congratulations to all our finalists! We’re also grateful to our judges, Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
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