Category: Poetry

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"In Kelowna" by Vivek Sharma

Posted on October 23, 2025

An excerpt from Issue 305 (Autumn 2025)

— Vivek Sharma is a graduate of UBC’s MFA program. His poems have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Best Canadian Poetry 2026, The Capilano Review, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, and The Walrus. His chapbook, Between two valleys, a lake (Anstruther Press, 2025), is an exploration of displacement and return. He lives and writes on the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan peoples.

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.

"My Mother's Hair" by Nancy Holmes

Posted on April 14, 2025

My Mother's Hair for Jennifer Spector by Nancy Holmes Winner of the 2024 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem

2024 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest Shortlist Announced!

Posted on March 26, 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!