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Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal

The Fiddlehead No. 284 (Summer 2020)

Our Summer 2020 Issue is live!

75th Anniversary Issue

Our 75th Anniversary 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. 286

Poems by Margo Wheaton

Posted on August 20, 2020

Margo Wheaton is one of the contributors to Brian Bartlett's section of reflective prose in our 75th anniversary issue. Brian selected poets who didn't publish their first collections until the age of fifty or later. Wheaton's debut poetry collection The Unlit Path Behind the House won a Canadian Authors Association award and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Fred Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, the J. M. Abraham Award, and the Relit Award. She an associate poetry editor at The Dalhousie Review.

Wheaton will be reading her work live during our free online anniversary event on December 9. After reading, click here to register!

"I'm in Iceland, darling" by Jonina Kirton

Posted on August 18, 2020

Jónína Kirton is one of the authors whose reflective prose is featured in Brian Bartlett's section of our 75th anniversary issue. She is a Red River Métis/Icelandic poet, and was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category.

Enjoy Kirton's live reading of I'm in Iceland, darling during our 75th anniversary online celebration on November 25. After reading, click here for more information on how to register for the free events!

Conor Kerr's Music and Reading Recommendations

Posted on August 14, 2020

Conor Kerr is a Metis writer living in Edmonton, Alberta. He was the winner of our 2019 poetry contest for his poem A Millenial Love Letter, which appeared in the Spring 2020 issue, and more of Conor's work will appear in our forthcoming summer poetry issue.

Fiddlehead Contributor Longlisted for Journey Prize!

Posted on August 14, 2020

We were thrilled to hear that Fiddlehead contributor David Huebert's short fiction story Chemical Valley was selected for this year's Journey Prize longlist! Congratulations David! And congratulations to all of the other longlisted authors. Thank you to the judges, the Writers' Trust, and M&S!

To read more about the 13 longlisted Canadian authors, check out the CBC article here!

Poems by Ingrid Ruthig

Posted on August 13, 2020

Today we are featuring two poems by Ingrid Ruthig. Ruthig is the author of two books of poetry, Slipstream and This Being, the later of which won the 2017 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She is also one of the contributors to Brian Bartlett's section in our 75th anniversary issue. This section featured prose reflection from poets who did not publish their first poems until after age of fifty.

Ruthig will be reading these poems live during our November 25 online anniversary event. After reading, click here for more details about the events and to register for free!

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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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