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The cover of Issue 306 of The Fiddlehead featuring the photograph “Silent Night” by Kirsten Stackhouse which is of a person standing in a bus shelter at night in winter. The ad on the bus shelter behind the person casts a green glow on the snow around the shelter

Excerpt from "Faultline" by Ariadne Asho

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Excerpt from Issue 306 (Winter 2026)
"Faultline" by Ariadne Asho
Winner of The Fiddlehead's 2025 Fiction Contest

The car stopped at a field full of houses. Houses like autumn squash. Houses like spiral-rolled bales of hay. 

Aoife scuffed across the earthy corduroy of the back seat, against wide wales that trapped within them cracker crumbs, cat-fur strands, rustcoloured pine needles. Her sister Lilou — reedy, blondie Lilou — gamboled out the other side, to face the field and a muddy ditch of clay and granite. 

2022 Fiction Contest Shortlist Announced

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The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2022 Fiction Contest, judged by Chris Benjamin ! The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced on January 5 2023 and the winning story will appear in the Winter 2023 issue (294). Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the finalists!

Yasuko Thanh: Fiction Contest Editorial

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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.

The cover of Issue 309 featuring the artwork HYGGE by Juno (Jaclyn Martinez)
Current Issue: No. 309