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Interview with Poetry Contest Winner Moni Brar!

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Editorial Assistant Rosie Leggott’s Interview with 2022 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize Winner Moni Brar 
 
Rosie Leggott: Your bio reads, “She believes art contains the possibility of healing.” Has art had a healing effect on you? Was this part of your goal with this poem? Can you elaborate on the healing qualities within your work?  
 
Moni Brar: Poetry has been an integral part of my healing journey.

Pre-Order the Spring Issue Now!

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The forthcoming Spring 2023 issue of The Fiddlehead is now available for pre-order! 
 
The issue will feature the winning poem The Fiddlehead's 2022 poetry contest by Moni Brar as well as work from authors Chelsea Peters, Adrienne Gruber, and many more!
 
Pre-orders will be in the mail by the end of April.

Stop! Look! Listen! Dafna Izenberg's Music Recommendation

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Peter Gabriel has described his song “Here Comes the Flood” as being metaphorical, about a washed-over, infiltrated state of mind more than an actual natural disaster. Nearly fifty years after its release on his self-titled 1977 album, and in the immediate wake of deadly mudslides in southern B.C., it seems like a literal prophecy. I first heard it while watching the TV series The Americans, in which it plays behind—and steals—a heartbreaking season-ending scene.

Interview with Melody Wilson

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Editorial Assistant Rosie Leggott’s Interview with Winter 2023 Contributor Melody Wilson
 
Rosie Leggott: Do you write all of your poems based on personal experience, or do you ever draw on the experiences of others that you are passionate about? When do you know that you will write about something?

Congratulations to Poetry Contest Winner Moni Brar!

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We're excited to announce that Moni Brar is the winner of the 2022 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize! Her poem “Dispossession in Five Acts [or How to Be a Model Minority or Not]” will appear in the Spring 2023 issue of The Fiddlehead. 

Moni Brar was born in rural India and raised in northern BC on the land of the Tse’Khene. She is the winner of the 2022 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She believes art contains the possibility of healing.

Stop! Look! Listen! Kyra Smith's Music Recommendation

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A year ago, I moved to another continent just as COVID-19 was finding its feet (sorry, Mum and Dad). Stuck indoors for months and unable to connect to my new surroundings, I found myself seeking out and appreciating Canadian content more than I had when I was home. I began listening more and more to young Canadian artists – Faouzia and Scott Helman, in particular.  

David Huebert: Spring 2023 Editorial

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Welcome to the Spring 2023 issue of The Fiddlehead. We are thrilled to congratulate Moni Brar, winner of the 33rd Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize for Best Poem! We’re grateful to our contest readers, Evan Jurmain and Rosie Legott, as well as to our three contest judges: Michael Prior, shalan joudry, and Dominique Béchard.

Richard Cumyn: Oji Decides (And More’s the Pity), A Good Name, Yejide Kilanko.

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Yejide Kilanko’s latest novel, A Good Name, is a page-turner written in simple, unadorned prose. The novel moves linearly through short chapters without flashback and is so compelling that, for this reader, the writing all but disappears. The story takes on new urgency around a third of the way in, when, after her wedding, an arranged marriage, in the Nigerian village of Oji, 18-year-old Zina travels to Houston, Texas, to join her husband, Eziafa. At first, Zina is excited by the prospect of life in America. Eziafa, 37, originally from Oji, has lived in the U.S.

Sherry Coffey: Dauntless, Why I’m Here, Jill Frayne.

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Who hasn’t wanted to be the fly on the wall of a therapist’s office? To hear the secrets people pay others to know? Jill Frayne’s Why I’m Here is a novel set in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1995 and tells the story of Helen Cotillard, a counsellor who works at the only counselling agency in the Territory. Out of necessity, Helen “took all comers” in her practice. Her new client, Gale, is a scrappy and unhappy adolescent from Cobalt, Ontario, who is brought to therapy by her stepmother.
The cover of Issue 309 featuring the artwork HYGGE by Juno (Jaclyn Martinez)
Current Issue: No. 309