Excerpt from "Wish You Were Here" by Susan Olding
Posted on October 14, 2021
Wish You Were Here by Susan Olding
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Fiction Features
Interview with Melanie Bell by Adrien Beaman
Posted on September 28, 2021
Melanie Bell holds an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University. Her work has appeared in Cicada, Contrary Magazine, Huffington Post and other publications. She is the co-author of a nonfiction book, The Modern Enneagram, and her short story collection Dream Signs is forthcoming from Lost Fox Publishing. Her story A Limit to Growth was featured in the Summer Fiction issue of The Fiddlehead.
Meet the Editors of the BIPOC Solidarities Issue - Shannon Webb-Campbell
Posted on June 23, 2021
As we receieve submissions for the upcoming BIPOC Solidarities special issue, we'll be featuring our wonderful team of editors who are working to bring the issue together.
This special issue is meant as an opening, extending the invitation to BIPOC writers to transform the content and spirit of The Fiddlehead far beyond a single issue; this issue is a commitment to transformation and accountability.
Excerpt from "Mother" by Jowita Bydlowska
Posted on June 22, 2021
Mother by Jowita Bydlowska
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Meet the Editors of the BIPOC Solidarities Issue - Saleema Nawaz
Posted on June 18, 2021
As we receieve submissions for the upcoming BIPOC Solidarities special issue, we'll be featuring our wonderful team of editors who are working to bring the issue together.
This special issue is meant as an opening, extending the invitation to BIPOC writers to transform the content and spirit of The Fiddlehead far beyond a single issue; this issue is a commitment to transformation and accountability.
BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue - Call For Submissions!
Posted on June 11, 2021
Submissions are now open for our BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue! What conversations would you have in a room filled with fellow BIPOC writers? What stories would you write for one another that you have held back from publishing in a pervasively white literary industry? The Fiddlehead invites submissions of poetry, fiction, creative-nonfiction, and cross-genre innovations by racialized writers residing in the area known as Canada (citizenship not required). This includes writers who identify as Black, Indigenous, people of colour, and racialized writers who wish to push back against the BIPOC acronym.
Excerpt from "Mouth Full" by Paige Lindsay
Posted on April 7, 2021
Mouth Full by Paige Lindsay
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How many mouths have been wrapped around your forks, your spoons, and, on rare and daring occasions, your knives? Whose lips have decorated your glasses with foggy, occasionally scarlet, kisses? We have all eaten from this bowl, this simple wooden vessel. A mother, her daughter, her son and his wife, her granddaughter. It has been across the country twice and it is older than you.
"Ruben's Salmon" Excerpt by Elise Thorburn
Posted on January 20, 2021
Ruben's Salmon by Elise Thorburn is the winning story from our 2020 Short Fiction Contest:
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Interview With Naoko Kumagai by Taidgh Lynch
Posted on November 23, 2020
Editorial Assistant Taidgh Lynch recently spoke to Naoko Kumagai about her short-fiction piece Karafuto, which was published in The Fiddlehead No. 285 (Autumn 2020). Kumagai has been published in Room magazine, Ricepaper magazine, and Event, and was also longlisted for the CBC non-fiction prize. She lives in Toronto
Announcing the Winner of our 2020 Creative Nonfiction Contest!
Posted on October 1, 2020
The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce that Morgan Charles is the winner of our 2020 Creative Nonfiction Contest and $2000 prize! Morgan's story Plagued will be featured in our upcoming Fall issue no. 285.
Thank you to all who entered the creative nonfiction contest and congratulations to the fourteen finalists. And thanks again to our judge Ariel Gordon!
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