Category: Stop! Look! Listen!

Zerrin Darnell-Martin recommends Trevor Noah's biography and two books by James Baldwin. Look for Zerrin's essay "Garlic Pussy" in this fall's all-creative nonfiction issue, edited by Alicia Elliott. 

Jeanie Keogh's essay "Somewhere Over Greenland" appears in this fall's Creative Nonfiction issue. What does she "put on when story ideas are hatching"? 

Šari Dale tells us why she recommends listening to Soccer Mommy's 2018 album Clean.

Look for Šari's essay "Eulogy for Pale Lilies" in this fall's all-creative nonfiction issue, edited by Alicia Elliott. 

On November 2, 2018, The Fiddlehead celebrated the publication of a chapbook, Arrivals and Departures: The Stories We Tell, at the Alumni Memorial Building on the University of New Brunswick campus. The title is the first in a new Foraging Chapbook series.The writing originated from a special Writing Workshop for Newcomers to Canada, sponsored by The Fiddlehead in collaboration with The Multicultural Association of Fredericton during Word Feast: Fredericton’s Literary Festival (September 21-22), and led by Anthazia Kadir.

(An Excerpt)

By Angela Wright

Gunshots! Gunshots!” my manager shouts through the phone. He has a penchant for being melodramatic and inflating the truth to make a point. It’s hard to hear him over the din in the background. The building is undergoing restoration and the sounds of hammers knocking against stone resonate through the hallways.

(An Excerpt)

By Nicholas Herring

Milton James Rhode Acorn was born in Charlottetown, PEI, on March 30, 1923. 

James Milton Rhodes Acorn (called Mickey by his brothers and sisters), whose descendants were German millers, was born in the old Provincial Hospital in Charlottetown.

Some people still incorrectly assume that “Milton Acorn” was a nom de plume.

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Read Alicia Elliott's introduction to our Creative Nonfiction issue!

R.L. Aseret recommends Kyoko Mori's The Dream of Water: a memoir. Look for R.L.'s essay "Spider Games" in this fall's all-creative nonfiction issue, edited by Alicia Elliott. 

The Fiddlehead was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Raymond Fraser. Fiction Editor Mark Jarman and Laurence Hutchman pay tribute. 

Governor General’s Award winner and two-time nominee for the Griffin Poetry Prize Phil Hall will be serving as the University of New Brunswick’s Writer-in-Residence from Fall 2018 through Winter 2019. Phil is available to writers at the University of New Brunswick and the wider literary community for one-on-one or group consultations, workshops, and readings. His residency is sponsored by the University of New Brunswick Fredericton’s Department of English, Faculty of Arts, The Fiddlehead, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Arts New Brunswick.