Category: Features

Editorial Assistant Kath Gerobin's Interview with Mike Barnes whose story "Animals" was published in Issue 302 (Winter 2025)

The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2024 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, judged by D. M. Bradford, Colleen Coco Collins, and Meghan Kemp-Gee! The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced in April 2024 and the winning poem will appear in the Spring 2025 issue (304). Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the following fifteen finalists!

Editorial Assistant Yogesh Tak's Interview with 2024 Fiction Prize Winner Luanne Gauvreau whose story "Roses for Bodies" was published in Issue 302 (Winter 2025)

Photo credit: Michel Dupuis

Unwashed, Daniel Maluka. Mawenzi House, 2024.

“I had things to draw.”

Grey Dog, Elliott Gish. ECW Press, 2024.

She, Kirby. knife | fork | book, 2024.

Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community, Phoebe Wang. Assembly Press, 2024.

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.

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.