Posted on January 3, 2024
We're excited to announce that Melissa DaCosta Brown is the winner of our 2023 Fiction Contest and $2000 prize! Her story "Husbands" will be featured in the upcoming Winter issue of The Fiddlehead (FH298).
Melissa DaCosta Brown is a graduate of Duke University and has a masters in Journalism from Northwestern University. She worked for MSNBC and ABC News affiliates. Her short stories have been published in Waccamaw, Subnivean, Ponder Review. Her work
has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Lascaux Prize.
Posted on January 3, 2024
Excerpt
"Husbands" by Melissa DaCosta Brown
Winner of the 2023 Fiction Prize
The game was called Husbands. We played the year we were all thirteen and fourteen, fellow campers at the all-girls Camp Pinecrest in Louisville, Maine. Camp was a group of crumbling 1920s-built log cabins dotting a steep mountainside next to the shores of dark freezing Crystal Lake. You heard it. Crystal Lake, like in Friday the 13th, if you can believe it. And yes, the place was horrifying, but not in that way.
Posted on December 11, 2023
The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2023 Fiction Contest, judged by Jack Wang!
Posted on October 19, 2023
We're excited to announce that Anne Marie Todkill is the winner of our 2023 Creative Nonfiction Contest and $2000 prize! Her essay "Storm Damage" is featured in the upcoming autumn issue of The Fiddlehead (no.297).
Anne Marie Todkill’s story “The Makeweight Piece” won The Fiddlehead’s 2021 fiction contest and appeared in issue no. 291. Her book of poetry, Orion Sweeping (Brick Books), was shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. “Storm Damage” is from a collection of essays in progress.
Posted on May 4, 2023
Editorial Assistant Evan Jurmain’s interview with Winter 2023 contributor Kyra Smith on her story "Shiver"
Posted on April 5, 2023
Editorial Assistant Rosie Leggott’s Interview with Winter 2023 Contributor Melody Wilson
Rosie Leggott: Do you write all of your poems based on personal experience, or do you ever draw on the experiences of others that you are passionate about? When do you know that you will write about something? Is it in the moment (as it appears with Postmodern Pedestrian), or is it more reflective (as it appears in Hand Me Down)?
Posted on January 9, 2023
We're excited to announce that Adèle Barclay is the winner of our 2022 Fiction Contest and $2000 prize! Their story Here Be Dragons ISO will be featured in the upcoming Winter issue of The Fiddlehead (FH294).
Adèle Barclay is the author of two poetry collections If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, which won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Renaissance Normcore. She is currently working on fiction and creative nonfiction projects. They teach literature and writing at Capilano University.
Posted on December 7, 2022
The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2022 Fiction Contest, judged by Chris Benjamin ! The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced on January 5 2023 and the winning story will appear in the Winter 2023 issue (294). Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the finalists!
Posted on November 18, 2022
Jamie Kitts’ Interview with Autumn Issue (no. 293) Contributor Spencer Knight
Content Warning: This interview references suicide.
Posted on October 26, 2022
Jenny Hwang is a Korean-Canadian writer and mother. She has previously worked as an immigration lawyer and in refugee resettlement with Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees program. She lives with her family in Mississauga, Ontario.
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