Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer and cartoonist of Chinese and Scottish ancestry. Her creative nonfiction essay "Lessons" was published in the BIPOC Solidarities issue of The Fiddlehead.
Deathly Afraid by Melinda Burns
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Editor's Introduction
Salma Hussain writes prose and poetry for children and adults. She grew up in the UAE to parents from Pakistan, and moved to Canada as a teenager. Her debut novel for kids and kids-at-heart, The Secret Diary Of Mona Hasan is forthcoming in May 2022 by Tundra/Penguin Random House. Follow: @salmahwrites.
Salma's story "Scribe" will be featured in the upcoming BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue of The Fiddlehead. Pre-order your copy today!
We're proud to say that the BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue will be the first Fiddlehead issue of 2022. It is available for pre-order now and will be in the mail by the end of January. Don't miss your chance to reserve your copy today!
Karen Heuler’s stories have appeared in over 100 literary and speculative magazines and anthologies, from Conjunctions to Weird Tales, as well as a number of Best Of anthologies. She has published four novels, four collections, and a novella, and has won an O. Henry award, and been a finalist for many others. Read her nonfiction essay "My Own Special Allergy" in the new Autumn issue of The Fiddlehead!
An interview with Creative Nonfiction Contest Winner K Ho by Melissa Spohr-Weiss:
We're excited to announce that K Ho is the winner of our 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest and $2000 prize! Their essay Dispatches will be featured in our upcoming Autumn issue, no. 289.
K Ho is a writer and photographer based in unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver BC). Their work has been published in several journals and is forthcoming in Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing. They are completing their MFA in creative writing.
Thank you to all who entered the creative nonfiction contest and congratulations to the fifteen finalists. And thanks again to our judge Chelene Knight!
Dispatches by K Ho, 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest Winner
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Every morning before my online creative writing workshop, I take a black handheld device, about four inches long and one inch wide, and line it up next to my laptop. It looks like an old-school cellphone, not unlike an early-aughts Nokia mobile on which many eager hands played Snake. The device has a red button and a mouthpiece of scattered dots for soundwaves to slide through. I press record and wait for class to begin.
Creative Nonfiction Contest Editorial
