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No. 175 (Spring 1993)

In the Spring of 1993, The Fiddlehead launched their 175th issue that included the winners of the Better Homes & Gardens Contest. The title of the magazine designates a newly born, young being before its eventual sprouting. The Fiddlehead creates a space for writers, a place for open expression and creativity. What better theme to choose for a contest than home and gardens? Editor Don McKay expresses in his editorial: “It was both edifying and moving to find our dwellings and animal companions so finely thought of and reflected in words.” The works submitted imitate a theme of domesticity that reflects The Fiddlehead’s purpose in creating a sense of belonging for new and experienced writers from all over. Its pages create an atmosphere of domesticity for literature. A home if you will.  

The poetry contest winner, “House Hunting/Home Dreams” by Kelley Jo Burke, is split into two narratives. One reflects the narrator’s thought process while house hunting and the other seems to describe a dream inside a house. Its duplicity also separates the themes of the poem: place and space, safety and danger. The poem’s narrator articulates the idea of home as a space, it is more than just a place, a building. Rather, it is a space that comes alive with the lives of those living within. Fiction winner Kathryn Woodward contributes her story, “Breeding True,” that is separated in an episodic manner following the progression of the seasons. There’s a focus on wars and ghosts, and trees and apples. Also included are a few honorable mentions, notably poems by David J. Paul, Bernadette Rule and a few more. The collection of works published in the issue accentuates the diversity and creativity of writing even when confined within the box of a theme. 

Bailey Noiles 
Publishing Intern, March 2022

Contents

Winners of the Better Homes & Gardens Contest
7        Kelley Jo Burke: House Hunting/House Dreams
12      Kathryn Woodward: Breeding True
18      David J. Paul: House Finches
19      Bernadette Rule: The Literate Thief
19      Landscapes in Reflection
22      Edith Van Beek: Songbirds
23      Sheila Longton: Patches

Fiction
36      Rodger Cove: The Visit
52      Ann Copeland: With the Continuing Ed Teacher
67      Sharon Pywell: Candida's Story

Poetry
31      Roger Nash: A Message from the Norns . . .
32      Bert Almon: Aggie Country
33      Death and the Glass Harmonica
35      John B. Lee: The Big Man in the Filthy Shirt
55      Carolyn Marie Souaid: Afternoons
56      Three Sentences
58      Alison T. Reed: The Music Critics
59      I Shall Not Look Upon His Like Again 
60      Stuart McKinnon: Miller Brittain 
62      J.D. Carpenter: Compassionate Travel
63      Paddy 
81      Elise Levine: Still Life
82      Derek Hanebury: Leona's Beauty & Barber
83      Ainma Animus
84      Edward Gates: Five Ghazals
87      Arthur R. Joyce: Shattered Icons
88      The Mother Steps
98      Richard Vaughan, William Forrestall: Conversations with Will 
107    Kevin Bushell: 3 Prose Poems
109    Rick Hilles: Tenure for Angels
111    Cain in the Womb

Out of Place
90      Penny Villegas: La Pecoralia

Review Articles
112    Brian Bartlett: From the Basement of Fables
          Wolf-Ladder, Don Domanski, Coach House, 1991 

128    Contributors

Art
David MacKay
Cover
Hunter's Moon
egg tempera
19" diameter

William Forrestall, egg tempera
98      Still Life with Gourd and Child's Toy
100    Still Life with Open Door
103    Still Life with Three Apples and Container
105    Shards
106    Still Life with Three Bottles and Three Gourds
 

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