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Stop! Look! Listen! What's Up? presents notices about local events, readings, and congratulations, and offers the occasional report from writers in various locales about what makes their cultural community tick.

Literary Salons at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted on May 27, 2011

Scholars, researchers, students, artists, and performers from all over Canada and the world are coming to Fredericton for the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This enormous conference will be held over the next ten days on the campuses of the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University. But Congress is not just a place where scholars present their latest findings (including research papers on The Fiddlehead!) to each other.

This Week at The Fiddlehead

Posted on April 11, 2011

The final UNB Reading Series event of the semester is both a launch of The Best Canadian Poetry 2010 (which includes five poems first published in The Fiddlehead) and a farewell reading by John Barton, the 2010/2011 UNB writer-in-residence and one of The Fiddlehead poetry judges for the 2010 contes

Annabel Lyon's "The Golden Mean"

Posted on March 15, 2011

Annabel Lyon will be reading from book The Golden Mean at the UNB Reading Series on Tuesday March 22, at 8 pm in the

Aurian Haller's "Song of the Taxidermist"

Posted on March 9, 2011

Aurian Haller, an award-winning author and songwriter, will be reading from his new collection Song of the Taxidermist at the UNB Reading Series on Monday March 14, at 8 pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge.

Richard Cumyn's "The Young in their Country and Other Stories"

Posted on February 8, 2011

Richard Cumyn’s most recent fiction collection, The Young in their Country and Other Stories, contains two stories that were first published in The Fiddlehead: “In the Wash” (no. 232 summer 2007) and “The Goddess Throws Down” (no. 240 summer 2009)

UNB Annual Poetry Weekend

Posted on September 29, 2010

The annual poetry weekend is upon us! Once again UNB Fredericton welcomes many acclaimed Canadian and local poets at this weekend-long poetry festival. Come hear many of your favorite poets read their work.

Featured poets such as John Steffler, Sue Gillis, Anne Compton, Brian Bartlett, Richard Lemm, David Zieroth, Johanna Skibsrud, Karen Solie, Shane Neilson, Sharon McCartney, Katia Grubisic, matt robinson, Vanessa Moeller, Michael deBeyer, James Langer, Tammy Armstong -just to name a few- will be reading this weekend! Come and join us for a wonderful time.

UNB Reading Series

Posted on September 14, 2010

John Barton, the 2010/11 University of New Brunswick writer-in-residence, author of eight poetry collections and winner of a CBC Literary Award in 2003 and a National Magazine Award in 2006, will be reading from his newest collection: Hymn.

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