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We're pleased to present the judges for our 25th annual literary contest, which closes December 1 (postmarked). The winners in each category receive $2000. Two honourable mentions in each category receive $250 each. You can find full submission guidelines on our website.
We're very pleased to say that we've had a second author longlisted for the 2015 Journey Prize. Charlie Fiset's "Maggie's Farm" from The Fiddlehead 261 (Autumn 2014) is one of twelve stories that will appear in The Journey Prize anthology.
We're pleased to announce that one of our contributors has been long listed for the 2015 Journey Prize! Emily Bossé's "Last Animal Standing on Gentleman's Farm" from The Fiddlehead No.
Congratulations to Brecken Hancock, a former Fiddlehead poetry editor and past contributor, on her being awarded the Trillium Book Award for Poetry last night for her book Broom Broom!
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 . . .
