2021 Fiction Contest Now Open!
Posted on June 2, 2021
We're pleased to announce that Yasuko Thanh will be judging this year's 2021 Fiction contest!
Current Issue: No. 301
Carol Krause's Reading Recommendation
Posted on May 31, 2021
Carol Krause is a poet who writes about madness, mystical mishaps and unexpected mendings. Her poetry was recently published in filling Station, Understorey Magazine, carte blanche, CAROUSEL, Issue 286 of The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. Carol lives on disability support and poetry, and feels most alive crawling through caves.
Anthony Purdy's Reading Recommendation
Posted on May 26, 2021
Anthony Purdy lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, where he started writing in 2019. Recent publications include stories in the Spring and Summer 2020 issues of Queen’s Quarterly as well as poems in The Goose, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, and Queen’s Quarterly. He is a member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets. His poem, mornings, received an honourable mention in the League of Canadian Poets’ 2021 Very Short Verse contest and appeared in the May 21 edition of Poetry Pause. His poem, bakery, was shortlisted for the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Spring 2021 Postcard Poem contest. Literary writing offers him new ways of exploring some of the concerns and questions that animated his research and teaching in recent years in fields as various as nephology and meteorology; natural history and the environment; material culture and the museum; cultures of memory and the archive; the archaeological imagination. You can read his poem, The subtle tumour in issue no. 286 of The Fiddlehead.
Emira Tufo's Reading Recommendation
Posted on May 17, 2021
Emira Tufo is a Bosnian Canadian writer based in Montreal. She is the recipient of the 2019 CBC/Quebec Writers’ Federation Writer in Residence award. Her essays have appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette and on CBC. Her storytelling has been featured on the Confabulation and Volume Knob podcasts. Emira's nonfiction essay Heroes was published in issue no. 286 of TheFiddlehead.
Robert Hilles Reading Recommendation
Posted on May 12, 2021
Robert Hilles won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for Cantos from A Small Room. His latest poetry book is Shimmer. His novel Don’t Hang Your Soul on That will be published in 2021.
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