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As we receieve submissions for the upcoming BIPOC Solidarities special issue, we'll be featuring our wonderful team of editors who are working to bring the issue together. 

This special issue is meant as an opening, extending the invitation to BIPOC writers to transform the content and spirit of The Fiddlehead far beyond a single issue; this issue is a commitment to transformation and accountability.

From soprano to whistling warbler

Why Birds Sing, Nina Berkhout. ECW Press, 2020. 

The Long and the Short of It

Charity, Keath Fraser. Biblioasis, 2021.

There must be a term — something Latin and ornate — for the evolutionary process of when a species of such primacy devours its habitat until everywhere it looks it sees only itself. Whatever this word is, the novel has done exactly that in the literary landscape. The novel’s conquering of the bookshelves is so total that the bookstore’s only other surviving genres seem to be Disaster Nonfiction, Retired Hockey Player Memoir, and Scented Candle.

What It All Meant

My Camino, Patrick Warner. Biblioasis, 2019. 

Lo Que Sera, Ya Pasó

Itzel I: A Tlatelolco Awakening and Itzel II: A Three Knives Tale, Sarah Xerar Murphy. Guernica Editions 2019 & 2020. 

Stumble, Spin, Settle

Here the Dark, David Bergen. Biblioasis, 2020. 

Battered and Bruised, but Not Down and Out

Boy With a Problem: Short Stories, Chris Benjamin. Pottersfield Press, 2020. 

Little Disrupters

This is Not a Hoax, Heather Jessup. WLUP, 2020. 

As we receieve submissions for the upcoming BIPOC Solidarities special issue, we'll be featuring our wonderful team of editors who are working to bring the issue together. 

This special issue is meant as an opening, extending the invitation to BIPOC writers to transform the content and spirit of The Fiddlehead far beyond a single issue; this issue is a commitment to transformation and accountability.

Jen Ashburn is the author of the poetry book The Light on the Wall (Main Street Rag, 2016), and has work published in numerous venues, including The Writer’s Almanac, Pedestal and Whiskey Island. Her creative nonfiction essay Borax and Cornmeal was published in issue 286 of The Fiddlehead. She holds an MFA from Chatham University, and lives in Pittsburgh, PA.