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Congratulations to our 2024 Poetry Contest Winner Nancy Holmes!
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We're excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize is Nancy Holmes for her poem "My Mother's Hair"! Nancy Holmes will receive $2000 in prize money and her poem will appear in the Spring 2025 issue of The Fiddlehead. You can read the poem or listen to a reading of it by Nancy Holmes now on ou
Stop! Look! Listen! Rachel Shabalin's Reading Recommendation
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Sheila Heit's Alphabetical Diaries is a book that exists in the past, present, and future simultaneously. Maybe a book that represents a futuristic version of reading?
Nadine Bachan Reviews All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong
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Dutiful Illuminations in the Dark
All Our Ordinary Stories, A Multigenerational Family Odyssey, Teresa Wong. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2024.
Pages/panels are excerpted from All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2024. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Features
Creative Nonfiction
An Excerpt from "Vanishing Point" by Lynn Easton
Excerpt from Issue 303 (Spring 2025)
"Vanishing Point" by Lynn Easton
DISAPPEAR: to be forgotten, lost
Fiction
An Excerpt from "A Life in Moving Pictures" by Kirsti Mikoda
Excerpt from Issue 303 (Spring 2025)
"A Life in Moving Pictures" by Kirsti Mikoda
Poetry
"My Mother's Hair" by Nancy Holmes
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Stop! Look! Listen! Rachel Shabalin's Reading Recommendation
Sheila Heit's Alphabetical Diaries is a book that exists in the past, present, an
Interviews
An Interview with Mike Barnes
Editorial Assistant Kath Gerobin's Interview with Mike Barnes whose story "Animals" was published in Issue 302 (Winter 2025)