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Book cover of Emily Riddle's The Big Melt, yellow squares over abstract

D.A. Lockhart Reviews The Big Melt by Emily Riddle

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Familiar and Unfamiliar in Our Collective Reclamations The Big Melt, Emily Riddle. Nightwood Editions, 2022. We often talk about different nations inhabiting the same physical spaces and the uneasiness that accompanies that sharing. In Canada, one of these most lasting and visible divides comes from Indian Country and the settler nations that landed on top of its constituent nations centuries ago. Throughout the course of our collective relationships, it is the stories of the profoundly personal that make their way between all of these nations.

Fiction Contest Editorial

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At its heart, “Roses for Bodies” is a journey. Of Max, a painter who travels from Amsterdam to Florence to learn about art, and from Florence to Navata Mare to become transformed from a well-meaning but selfish and impatient man to one with greater compassion for humanity and a better understanding of his own work. Of the migrants who come from countries torn apart by conflict and poverty to what they hope will be a better life in Europe.

A Welcome from our Editor

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Our winter issue carries both reasons to celebrate and reasons for sadness. It’s in sadness that I share with you the passing of Dr. Robert “Bob” Gibbs, a writer and scholar who among his various contributions to literary life, was editor (1971–73) and poetry editor (1967–95) of The Fiddlehead. Dr. Roger Ploude, Bob’s colleague at the University of New Brunswick and another of our past editors, remembers Bob as “unfailingly kind to me and all others whose lives he touched.

An Interview with Petra Chambers

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Editorial Assistant Miriam Richer Interviews Petra Chambers whose three poems appear in Issue 301 (Autumn 2024)

Miriam Richer: All three of your poems, in one sense or another, are about the speaker’s relationship to the past—revisiting a childhood home, reminiscing about adolescence, identifying with a rescue animal’s inscrutable history. How does the passage of time figure into your poetry? 

Petra Chambers: I love thinking about time. 

An Interview with Nancy Huggett

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Editorial Assistant Laura Broadbent Interviews Nancy Huggett whose story "I am a good mother. I am a bad mother. I am no mother at all." won our 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest and was published in Issue 301 (Autumn 2024)

Laura Broadbent: On the liberating constraint of genre: What constraints does creative nonfiction afford you to speak in ways you otherwise couldn’t?  

A photo of Robert Gibbs sitting in a chair which was taken in Robert’s backyard where he loved to sit and gain inspiration for his writing.
Current Issue: No. 303