Category: Features

Enjoy a sneak peak from the upcoming Summer Creative Nonfiction Issue! Read Susan Haley's review of Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter and Wreck, a very anxious memoir by Kelley Jo Burke. 

Don't forget to pre-order your copy of the Summer Creative Nonfiction Issue today! 

Invisible Walls: A Decentred Hermit Crab Sticky Note Narrative by Shirley Harshenin

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Tabarnacle by Ellen McGinn

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On the day, there is a darkness, raven black, on the far edge of the ocean, a soft settled line breaks the sky from the sea and the sea from the sky. Both summer blue, like twins. 

Do not start with darkness. Consider blackberry picking this afternoon. Consider a pie. The wasps going insane.

Greenland melts.

Australia is on fire.

The Human Cost

Horseplay: My Time Undercover on the Granville Strip, Norm Boucher. NeWest Press, 2020

This year's highly anticipated Creative Nonfiction issue of The Fiddlehead is now available for pre-order! 

The issue, edited by Rowan McCandless, is dedicated to Creative Nonfiction and features exceptional work from authors such as Fiona Tinwei Lam, Megan Cole, Sena Moon, Tanis MacDonald, Isabella Wang and many more!

Pre-orders will be in the mail by the end of July. Don't miss your chance to reserve a copy today! 

David Folster was a journalist, social historian, and heritage and conservation activist from Fredericton, New Brunswick. He wrote for a wide assortment of magazines and newspapers including the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Sports Illustrated, Canadian Geographic, and the Christian Science Monitor. He was a frequent contributor to CBC Radio and Television programs. He is also the author of The Great Trees of New Brunswick and The Chocolate Ganongs of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, a narrative history of the business that was shortlisted for the 1990 Canadian Business Book of the Year Award.

Remembering Steven Heighton

By Mark Jarman

The delicate interplay between past and present, what we carry with us, what we leave behind, and what others take from us is rendered in pitch-perfect prose in “The Makeweight Piece.” This story is set during a distant war in which the starving and the dying cling to art as prayer. As worship. As a way to define who they once were. So much heart is packed between the lines of a story whose tone is at once tightly focused and expansive that my own heart staggers and cracks open. As a reader I’m dying to be touched and amazed.

A Song of Despair or Hope?

As Far as You Know, A. F. Moritz. Anansi, 2020

Nothing into Nothing

I Will Be Corrupted, Joseph A. Dandurand. Guernica Editions, 2020.

In the poem, “Whisper from you,” Joseph Dandurand rants about “one ass of an editor” (this is in the very last poem of this fine collection and presumably there for a reason), who tells him he should “add some imagery to [his] work.” I actually laughed out loud.