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WFNB WordsSpring May 4-6 2012

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The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick's annual spring gathering, formerly call our AGM and Literary Awards Banquest, WordsSpring brings together WFNB members, well-known authors, and people from the community to create an informative, educational, and all-out fun time.

Fiddlehead Story goes to the Big Screen!

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In 2004 Craig Davidson won The Fiddlehead's Short Fiction Prize for his story "28 Bones." Now eight years later his story is being turned into a French-language film staring Academy Award-winning actor Marion Cotillard and directed by Oscar-nominated Director, Jacques Audiard.

The UNB Reading Series Presents: Linden MacIntyre

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Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntyre, author of The Bishop’s Man, will be reading from his latest novel Why Men Lie at Memorial Hall, Thursday, April 12th at 8 pm.

Rebels with a Cause: France’s 13e Note Editions

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By Zach Alapi

An Interview with France's 13e Note Editions. 13e Note founder Eric Vieljeux was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule for an interview. What follows is a short conversation to help introduce readers of The Fiddlehead to 13e Note’s ethos and why, as a foreign press, they support and promote American and Canadian writers.

Radio Fiddlehead No. 4: Interview with Anita Lahey

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Fiddlehead Editorial Assistant Claire Kelly sat down with Canadian poet and journalist Anita Lahey to talk about her latest book of poems Spinning Side Kick (Signal Editions, 2011). Anita's poetry is equal parts playful and profound, and their conversation bounced from the fun of onomatopoeia to the foggy future of literary magazines.

Anita Lahey's previous book Out to Dry in Cape Breton (Signal Editions, 2006) was nominated for the Ottawa Book Award and the Trillium book award for poetry. Previously, she was the editor of Arc Poetry Magazine. 

Show Me the Way to Go Home: Place & Belonging in Shoshanna Wingate’s Homing Instinct

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By Phillip Crymble A Review of Shoshanna Wingate's Homing Extinct (Frog Hollow Press, 2011) Home and all of its accoutrements, conventions, and cultural imperatives are made accountable in Wingate’s collection as it moves inexorably towards the final reckoning we encounter in the closing poem. “Neighbours” and “The Cotton Mill” come early in the book, and as companion pieces, work to both establish and entrench the prevailing thematic locus. . . .

A Sampling of Fiction Editor Gerard Beirne’s New Collection, Games of Chance

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One of the most prominent Irish transplants now dwelling in Atlantic Canada, Gerard Beirne was quick to root himself here, and foster its writing community. He’s currently teaching at UNB, where he has also been a writer in residence, and acts as an editor at one of Canada’s finest literary journals, The Fiddlehead.

The Kinaesthetics of Poetry: On Anne Carson and the Dancer I Never Was

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By Chantelle Rideout

The gangly-legged childhood version of me wanted to be a figure skater. My parents, regrettably, acquiesced and, after getting me properly outfitted in a pair of Don Jacksons and some sparkles, sent me tottering off to the Sackville Arena. I spent hours rehearsing camel spins, Salchows, and Ina Bauers, went through endless pairs of flesh-coloured tights, but, in the end, I was always flutzing my Lutzes and gradually came to accept that I would never be an Olympian (let's face it, I was already older than Tara Lipinski. Also, I had better things to do after school than endure below-zero temperatures in the few months of t-shirt weather we got (and, those sequined dresses aren't cheap, you guys).

The cover of Issue 309 featuring the artwork HYGGE by Juno (Jaclyn Martinez)
Current Issue: No. 309