Hiding (From) Ourselves: A Review by Nadine Bachan of Shani Mootoo's "Polar Vortex"
Posted on March 31, 2022
Hiding (From) Ourselves
Polar Vortex, Shani Mootoo, Book*hug Press, 2020.
Fiction Reviews
Pre-Order the Spring Issue Now!
Posted on March 15, 2022
The forthcoming Spring 2022 issue of The Fiddlehead is now available for pre-order!
The issue will feature the winning poem and short story from The Fiddlehead's 2021 poetry and fiction contests as well as work from authors such as Sylvie Simmons, John Barton and many more!
Back of the road a ways: A Review by Susan Haley of Carol Bruneau's "Brighten the Corner Where You Are"
Posted on September 27, 2021
Back of the road a ways
Brighten the Corner Where You Are, Carol Bruneau. Vagrant Press, 2020.
Sometimes a gifted writer can convey a character by getting an absolute sense of that character’s voice. It is a peculiar kind of ventriloquism, some kind of almost hypnotic union, and when it works it is absolutely brilliant, as it is in Brighten the Corner Where You Are, by Carol Bruneau.
Hush, Hush, Sweet Secrets: A Review by Catherine Greenwood of Gerard Collins' "The Hush Sisters"
Posted on September 21, 2021
Hush, Hush, Sweet Secrets
The Hush Sisters, Gerard Collins, Breakwater Books, 2020
What is your Emergency? : A Review by Susan Haley of Shandi Mitchell's "The Waiting Hours"
Posted on March 12, 2021
What is your Emergency?
The Waiting Hours, Shandi Mitchell. Viking, 2019.
This very accomplished novel is by a Maritime writer I had never run into before, although she has written another, Under This Unbroken Sky, which I intend to read now.
The Waiting Hours is about emergency workers, and the “waiting hours” of the title, is the period during the depths of the night when, if anything happens, it is usually terrible.
Secret Signature: The Quiet Revolution of Berthe Morisot : A Review by Martha Shulman of Dede Crane's "One Madder Woman"
Posted on March 12, 2021
Secret Signature: The Quiet Revolution of Berthe Morisot
One Madder Woman, Dede Crane. Freehand Books 2020
Florence MacDonald's Reading Recommendation
Posted on May 1, 2020
Is there anyone else out there who loves a big, thick, old-fashioned novel that is written with such sparkle and fluidity that you dive right in and only come up for air at three am when your vision shuts down and your bed has become a raft on the ocean of that new world? A.S. Byatt’s Possession is one such book for me.
Review of Best Canadian Stories 2019
Posted on March 19, 2020
Best Canadian Stories 2019
Biblioasis, 2019
Edited by Caroline Adderson
Reviewed by Megan Kuklis:
"If a person had nothing but this collection of stories from which to judge the state of fiction in Canada, they would come away believing that Canadians are delightfully chaotic and completely insane...."
Magic Beneath the Waves
Posted on August 16, 2019
by Megan Kuklis
A review of Melissa Barbeau's The Luminous Sea (Breakwater Books, 2018)
Utopic, Coming-of-Age Story for Millennials
Posted on May 28, 2019
By Megan Kuklis
A Review of Darusha Wehm's The Home for Wayward Parrots (NeWest Press, 2018)
The Home for Wayward Parrots by Darusha Wehm is a charming novel that centres on the complicated lives of its many sweet characters. Exceptionally readable, the novel flows through the past and present of Brian “Gumbo” Guillemot’s life with such care that readers will not be able to put it down. This novel should be devoured in a single sitting.
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Current Issue: No. 291
