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Editorial Assistant Rosie Leggot's Interview with Shirley Harshenin whose story "Readiness Quiz" was published in Issue 298 (Winter 2024)

Rosie Leggot: As a person who answered a majority of B answers and has a love-hate relationship with everything I write, I sincerely appreciated the honesty in this piece. I could not help but be reminded of the continual projects assigned as exposure therapy. 

“Junkyard Apocalypse”: Uneasy Ecopoems, Unhomely Homes by David Huebert

Kill Your Starlings, Tom Cull. Gaspereau Press, 2023.

Welcome to the spring issue of The Fiddlehead, which features Jaeyun Yoo’s Ralph Gustafson Prize-winning poem, “have you seen my father.” Congratulations, Jaeyun! And congratulations to everyone who took the risk of sending their work into the contest. Big thanks to Kirby, Sadiqa de Meijer and Rebecca Salazar for their work as judges of the shortlisted poems.

With the abundance of high caliber poetry books published each year in Canada, it’s extremely difficult to narrow down which specific poetry collections to recommend. The only criteria I can think of on which to base that recommendation is that feeling you get when you finish reading it. More than appreciation or admiration, it’s a deep sense of relief that you get and a genuine thankfulness that this book exists, and you were lucky enough to find it.  

We're excited to announce the winner of our 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize is Jaeyun Yoo for her poem "have you seen my father"! Jaeyun Yoo will receive $2000 in prize money and her poem will appear in the Spring 2023 issue of The Fiddlehead. You can read the poem or listen to a reading of it by Jaeyun Yoo now on our website.

Sue Sinclair is a poet, teacher and editor who grew up on Beothuk territory in the city of Saint John’s.  Her latest books are Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane Editions, 2022), which won the NB Poetry Book Award and was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize, and the chapbook essay At the Frog Pond: On Ecological Beauty in the Climate Crisis (Emergency Flash Mob Press, 2023).  She lives in Fredericton on Wolastoqiyik territory and is co-director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick.

Jérémi Doucet is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2, Les Écrits, and several anthologies. He currently lives in Paris, where he studied French Language and Literature at Sorbonne University.

Shannon Harvey is an emerging writer from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of New Brunswick, and an M.A. in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University.

Editorial Assistant Anastasios Mihalopoulos' Interview with 2023 Fiction Prize Winner Melissa DaCosta Brown whose story "Husbands" was published in Issue 298 (Winter 2024)

Anastasios Mihalopoulos: The opening of your story references Crystal Lake from Friday the 13th stating that this place was horrifying “but not in that way.” Do you see this story interacting with the horror genre or our general definition of ‘horror’ in a particular way?