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Issue 305 Launch Party!
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Get ready to celebrate The Fiddlehead’s new fall issue, with another exciting virtual launch!
Wednesday, November 19, 7pm AST
Stop! Look! Listen! Danica Klewchuk's Reading Recommendation
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While staying in rural Saskatchewan at the oldest monastery in Canada I read Karen Russell’s latest book The Antidote. So, perhaps it was not a wonder that the first thing that grabbed me about it were its descriptions of the Nebraska prairies.
Stop! Look! Listen! David Starkey’s Listening Recommendation
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Some albums create their own little universes.
Features
Creative Nonfiction
An Excerpt from "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor" by Shelley Pacholok
Excerpt from Issue 305 (Autumn 2025)
"How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor" by Shelley Pacholok
Winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize
Fiction
Excerpt from "The Cure" by Michelle Spencer
Excerpt from Issue 305 (Autumn 2025)
"The Cure" by Michelle Spencer
Content note: references a fatal accident, suicide, and grief.
Poetry
"In Kelowna" by Vivek Sharma
An excerpt from Issue 305 (Autumn 2025)
Stop! Look! Listen!
Stop! Look! Listen! Danica Klewchuk's Reading Recommendation
While staying in rural Saskatchewan at the oldest monastery in Canada I read Karen Russell’s latest book The Antidote
Interviews
An Interview with Danica Klewchuk
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An Interview with Nancy Hui Sulaiman
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An Interview with Mike Barnes
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An Interview with Luanne Gauvreau
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