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The Fiddlehead

Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal

Our Creative Nonfiction contest opens on March 1

This year's judge is Ariel Gordon! Click for details!

No. 282 (Winter 2020)

Our Winter issue is live!

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Watch our first videos from our August 25, 2018 event, the first event leading up to our 75th anniversary!

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Current Issue: No. 282

The Fiddlehead Turns 75 and We Want Your Help to Celebrate!

Posted on November 1, 2019

The Fiddlehead is turning 75!

We are planning all kinds of celebratory events across the country! We are even publishing an extra issue—a special 75^th anniversary issue of The Fiddlehead—curated by our advisory editors, with a focus on “looking forward” to the future of CanLit.

We want to include brief messages from YOU, our readers! Looking forward, what are your thoughts, ideas, hopes or dreams for The Fiddlehead or for CanLit? We’d be delighted to receive any kind of well wishes or celebratory notes you care to send!

Paul Bowdring 1946-2019

Posted on November 1, 2019

The Fiddlehead mourns the loss of the great Newfoundland writer Paul Bowdring, who was a long-time member of our advisory board. Paul died earlier this year on June 7. Below is his friend Don Austin’s tribute, given as an oral presentation at a memorial service.

Announcing the Winner of our Creative Nonfiction Contest

Posted on October 31, 2019

We're pleased to announce the winner of our creative nonfiction contest! Congrats to Dafna Izenberg — her piece "The promised language" has been chosen by our judge Marcello Di Cintio!

UNB Reading Series present Richard Kelly Kemick

Posted on October 28, 2019

The University of New Brunswick invites you to join us for a literary reading by author Richard Kelly Kemick, with special guest CL Johnson, on Tuesday, October 29th at 7:30 pm in Carleton Hall, room 139 (19 Macaulay Lane) on UNB’s Fredericton campus.

Annie Q. Syed on Music and Writing

Posted on October 1, 2019

Annie Q. Syed describes her relationship to music and writing. Her essay, "Landscape Through the Body," appeared in The Fiddlehead No. 279 (Spring 2019).

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The Fiddlehead is published four times a year at the University of New Brunswick, with the generous assistance of the university, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of New Brunswick. First published in 1945, The Fiddlehead is known as a WHO'S WHO in Can. Lit. Many — now well-known — writers have found their first home in our pages. The material on this website may not be cached, distributed, reproduced, transmitted, or otherwise used without the prior permission of The Fiddlehead. Email comments, complaints, or suggestions regarding this website to fiddlehd@unb.ca.

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