In 2015 The Fiddlehead is celebrating 70 amazing years of publishing. Why do you read The Fiddlehead? What has it meant to you? When did you first discover the venerable ol’ fern? What was the first issue you read? Where were you? What voices did you discover between the covers?
Congratulations to the winners of our 24th annual literary contest! Sean Howard has won the Ralph Gustafson Prize for best poem, and the two honourable mentions go to Julie Cameron Gray and Michael Prior. On the fiction side, Lisa Alward has won the Short Fiction Prize, and Kari Lund-Teigen and David McLaren are the two honourable mentions.
April is National Poetry Month in Canada, and today, the League of Canadian Poets released the shortlists for its annual book awards. Here at The Fiddlehead (where we celebrate poetry year-round) we noticed that many of the shortlisted authors have appeared in our pages recently so we wanted to add our cheers to the general hubbub. More . . .
The Ottawa Citizen has a story of its 15 most anticipated new fiction books, which features Fiddlehead fiction editor Mark Jarman who has a new book of stories Knife Party at the Hotel Eu
We don't want to scare you (although it is almost Halloween!), but there is just over one month left to submit to The Fiddlehead's 24th Annual Contest.
Congratulations to Clea Young, who is one of the finalists for this year's Journey Prize! Clea's story, "Juvenile," appeared in last year's Summer Fiction issue, no. 256.
