Dafna Izenberg won this year’s Creative Nonfiction Prize for “The Promised Language,” published in The Fiddlehead, No. 281 (Autumn 2019). Editorial Assistant Jaeden Langlois conducted the following interview with Dafna Izenberg about her relationship to the Hebrew language.
By Nancy Bauer
One recent June evening I attended a mesmerizing concert at the home of artist Stephen May, the first “house concert” I’d ever attended. Six other guests came, so with the host and four musicians, we were a gathering of twelve. The intimate group was surrounded by seven glorious May paintings and one pitiful palm tree. The musicians were plainly dressed: no theatrical tricks or garish makeup. . . .
Nicholas Herring’s “The Lives of Milton Acorn” appears in The Fiddlehead No. 277 (Autumn 2018). The following interview was conducted via email with editorial assistant Salar Ghatta in late November 2018.
By Kerry-Lee Powell
Jill M. Talbot's essay "Checkmate" appears in The Fiddlehead No. 277 (Autumn 2018), our all creative nonfiction issue.
Read Alicia Elliott's introduction to our Creative Nonfiction issue!
Welcome to the second in an ongoing column by Nancy Bauer, "State of the Art."
Our creative nonfiction issue editor Alicia Elliott has put together an amazing issue.
Contributors include: R.L. Aseret, Tara Campbell, Mary Chen, Šari Dale, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Tyler Dunning, Gila Green, Nicholas Herring, Mikka Jacobsen, Jeanie Keogh, Ania Mroczek, Dominik Parisien, David Rock, Erin Soros, Jill M. Talbot, Arielle Twist, Charmaine Ward, and Angela Wright.
Interview by Emily Skov-Nielsen, Marketing and Promotions for The Fiddlehead. Alicia Elliott will be in Fredericton on August 25 to give a workshop "Digging Deep: How to Get the Most Out of Your Creative Nonfiction" from 10-12 at the Fredericton public LIbrary and to give a reading later that evening at 7pm, also at the Fredericton Public LIbrary. For more information, visit the Facebook event here or scroll down to see the poster.
Welcome to the first in an ongoing column by Nancy Bauer, "State of the Art."
We are extending the deadline for submitting to our Creative Nonfiction issue. The response so far has been outstanding; however, that means we are about to reach our monthly Submittable submission limit! To be fair to writers working away on pieces that they intended to submit before the March 31 deadline, we have decided to extend the deadline until midnight on April 4.
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